Love this bed!  I thought it was going to be too girly for my husband with the stones but he actually likes it a lot.  Well built and easy to assemble.  It was intimidating at first, but once I took a good look at it, all was good.  It looks great against our dark blue/grey accent wall.   If you have a pillow top mattress not a lot of the headboard shows after you put the pillows on, but a memory foam would probably be just about perfect.