The bed is beautiful and the headboard is comfy!  This bed does not need a box spring, depending on what mattress you use, it actually is too high if you use a box spring.  My husband was a bit wary with buying a bed sight unseen but all our fears were gone when we saw the end product.  Highly recommend the service to put together the bed as well - it is heavy and a lot of pieces (we took apart our old bed no issues, watching this put together we definitely could not have figured it out ourselves).