The bed is beautiful. An excellent size for my 5yr old. A grown up could sleep on it, so I could see it as a guest bed. Definitely looks better w/o a box spring. The packaging was awful. Two pieces had small dents in the metal frame. I'm not very picky so didn't mind so much, especially for the price. My husband is an engineer so he liked the extra support system. No directions, but you can figure it out. Would definitely rate it higher if they threw some instructions in there and packaged it better.