Awesome bed.  You don’t notice the distressing of the piece til you get up a little closer.  It is not too much at all.  Very tastefully done.  The footboard is the same. You don’t need a metal bed frame foundation for this bed.  The wooden slats that come with the bed  hold our king box spring and thick top mattress no problem.  The only thing that happened was the delivery guys opened  the box the Farnham low profile bed came in and the delivery guys thought something was wrong with the bed.  They looked worried and said look it looks damaged the paint has come off.  I told them the bed is supposed to look that way,   it’s vintage.  Boy were they relieved!