I absolutely love this bed. The design is exactly as pictured- the color online is deceiving, and the bed is dark bronze in person which I like better. My only complaint is that all assembled with the mattress, the canopy does wobble with regular movement getting in and out of the bed because it just rests onto the bedposts- there is no hardware securing the canopy to the bedposts. You could assemble this bed without the canopy- the finials screw onto the shorter bedposts if you wanted
To use the bed that way. Overall, it is a stunning bed and I love how it looks in our old farmhouse.