This product looks just as it does in the picture. So I'm very pleased with the look. The assembly took about six hours total. I used my own tools to make it go a little bit faster. One of my biggest issues with the bed was this one piece. I believe it was the U piece. these pieces were very important to putting the frame on the base of the bed. They were very hard to install, as the plastic piece had a screw to go into a drilled hole that was not cut to receive a screw. If these were not put in correctly, the frame would not sit correctly. This took forever to try to correct. It was a very frustrating part, which actually led to me giving it one star off.