This bed is super cute! We purchased it for our guest room. It arrived a day early (yay!) and we got to work assembling the bed frame. I will say that the one downside is that the instructions are fairly sparse. My husband is very good at putting things together, but I'm sure it would have taken me twice as long on my own to figure out the instructions. The bed frame itself is very sturdy with the included wooden slats, and all of our pieces were well packaged without any damage or scratches. I would recommend once you assemble it to go back and re-tighten all the screws to prevent squeaking prior to adding mattress. It does not need a box spring, in my opinion.