Bed is exactly how it looks here. Read carefully though - no slats and requires a box spring!! It was fairly easy to assemble (I'm a petite female) and everything lined up. Only complaint is that even though it says that there's 6" of clearance under the bed (which there is), the platforms sides are more like 3" of clearance, so you can't slip things in and out from under the bed as a result. This is misleading and now we can't store certain things under the bed like we had hoped.