We bought this headboard for our 10 year old daughter when we redid her room for Christmas. It is beautiful and she loves it but one of the shelf pieces was cracked nearly all the way through. When my husband tried to "straighten" it it snapped in half. So we didn't attach it. If we hadn't been pressed for time (Christmas eve) then we would've sent the piece back, so we admit that it's partly our fault. All in all its a great headboard.