I love this bed! it is exactly what I have been looking for. My only suggestion is if you are looking to purchase this bed WITH the box spring make sure that you have a LOW PROFILE (under 5") box spring. It should make it the right height for a platform bed. I currently have a standard box spring and it made the bed way to high for our needs. We just placed an order for the low profile box spring so I am excited for that to come in. If you do not mind a higher bed you can use it with your standard box spring. Ours is about 8.5" and we have a thicker mattress, so it made it around 30 some off inches from the floor to the top of the mattress.