I don't have a mattress or box spring for this bed yet, so I haven't slept on it but so far it looks great. The color is black, as others have mentioned, which is fine. Delivery was prompt and the box arrived in good shape on the day promised. Assembly was super easy. The only problem was a small dent at the bottom of the headboard tubing which made it not quite round and kept me from being able to insert the lower part of the headboard. Unfortunately this was step one in the assembly process. We were able to proceed with the rest of the assembly though. We found that inserting a closet rod type wooden dowel,  which we happened to have on hand, into the tube and tapping it gently with a rubber mallet we were able to coax the tubing back into its original shape and complete the process with no further difficulty