The new headboard was just what we needed and looks great with the other blues in the room (and we liked that it was not a true navy and did not look like "jeans").  It arrived in good shape and was easy to put together.  For now we've opted not to connect it to the frame and it's working just fine where it is. This is our second product from Wayfair in the past month and we have been pleased with both.  We do wish we had left the headboard in the garage to air out for a couple of days as we are getting a little chemical/polyester smell off-vaporing from it, but not much (and I'm super sensitive to things like that.  If it's not a bother to me, it won't be a bother to most sensitive people either.  We have left the window open during the day and whatever was there is really faint now.  All in all, we're quite pleased.