This is a beautiful high quality upholstered platform bed. I purchased the light grey option and I believe it's pretty true to the color advertised in the stock photo. The bed itself wouldn't have been too difficult to assemble had all the parts been properly labeled. I did not give it 5 stars because I had to figure out where a lot of the parts went to myself because only half was labeled. It took me a few hours to assemble it. Overall great quality for the price. I have included a few pictures to give you an idea of how tall it stands with an 18.5 mattress on it (no base), take into account that the room is not well lit (the pictures with no mattress are truest to the actual color).