I love this bed! It is beautiful! I first ordered this bed because it is gorgeous and had a high standing footboard. When it came and my husband put it together, once you put the mattress on the footboard does not stand high like in the photo. Also online it states that a box spring is required, this is not true at all. There is no way you can use a box spring with this bed unless you want to sleep 5 feet in the air. Because of this I was going to return it but found out that would cost a fortune. It was also difficult to put together, took some time, and it takes up a lot of space, I hope you have a very large bedroom! But in the end I decided to keep it and to my surprise it sleeps like a dream! it has beams that hold the mattress instead of the box springs and it is the most comfortable bed I have ever slept in! So in the end it was all worth it.