The picture shows taupe color but it is grey which I knew that from seeing the bed on other sites and grey is what I wanted. It is true grey, no blue hues. It is very beautiful and looks expensive. My only complaint is that the support legs that go in the middle of each slat keep falling off. The tee nuts that you screw the support legs came out still attached to the legs when they fell off so I will have to try to find a way to screw them back on.