The headboard itself is a lovely shade of wood, and nice and light while being sturdy. However, the instructions make it sound like this piece is intended to go with ONE particular matching bed. The specs when ordering say that hardware is included— but just to attach the headboard to its own support bars, not to a bedframe. Says to use the hardware that came with the bed. This has lead to a lot of scrambling around to find matching hardware that was never noted as being needed.