The color of the headboard is beautiful. It was super easy to assemble it took me an hour to do this alone! I haven’t put together the night stands yet. The only strenuous part of the assembly process was the final screw down of the wood slats to the sideboards. If you have a drill I’d recommend using it but I did it by hand and it just required a bit of force but nothing unreasonable. The bed is low so I purchased a 14” mattress and I think it’s going to work out great!