This bed was exactly as pictured and the color was exactly the soft white I expected. There aren't any yellow or gray undertones. It's a true soft whit color. The fabric is what you would expect at this price. It's not true velvet, not nearly as plush, but it gives the impression of velvet. Easy to assemble, but a bit time consuming. We used a 5" box spring but about 2 inches of it shows. I would have given it 5 stars but the bed rails are really low to the ground so there's no way to put underbed storage bins under it, and it would be difficult to find a boxspring that would would be covered by the rails since they're so narrow.