This is a really nice looking bed. My only complaint is that once you get a standard height mattress on, you can't see much of the headboard because it's covered up! Even the recommended 10" mattress would cover most of the headboard. Very poor design flaw. We ended up modifying it and mounted the headboard on top of 2-2x12's (that I now need to stain or cover in fabric) in order for the headboard to be useable. Before our modification, maybe 6" of the headboard was above the mattress.