This bed is a platform which is great, but it is extremely low to the ground and I couldn’t tell that from the photos. I probably will still end up buying a box spring to raise it. It’s awkwardly low. It also is not velvet, I should have read more. It looked like velvet in the photos, but it’s a cheap fabric and doesn’t look as nice in person. But very sturdy bed still it definitely is a good price and gets the job done!