I had been debating buying this bed frame for a solid 8 months and finally bit the bullet. A decision well made! I took off a star because building the frame by myself was a huge pain in the rear, and the headboard and base board are very heavy. I don’t even want to think about how brutal it will be to move this bed when we move out of our apartment. But! For now I will enjoy how beautiful it is and how happy I am with it! It looks like such great quality and the color is beautiful. We have a full sized mattress on it, no box spring. We ordered a queen size frame (I was told our mattress was a queen by my mother in law and quickly discovered it was in fact NOT a queen...) and you definitely don’t need a box spring for it! Now to find a new mattress )