The bed is very attractive and solid and appears as in the picture. It's also real wood, not particle board. I am only giving it 3 stars because for the price, they should have flown the German engineers over who wrote the instruction manual to put this together for us. It took several hours to get it together, more than twice what it said on the instructions, which were pretty difficult to make at at points. DO NOT try to put this together without a power screwdriver and take your time, because it takes time to figure out what the instructions are instructing.