Pretty sturdy bed for the price, the nail part does look cheap. Great Offer Stock should have taken a closer picture of the nail heads to show how they all connect together. It's not separate nail pieces it's like one long nail piece glued on top of each other, you can see the connector parts. That's why my rating isn't 5 stars because of the nail pieces. I wish I could add a picture on here so that you can see it. Besides that, it's a good bed, pretty easy to put together. Didn't put the wooden slats together because we wanted to the bed to be pretty low. It worked out fine, our box springs fit right through the bed frame. There was no need to spend the time to put together the support pieces to the wooden slats. Dark gray has a linen like look to it that you don't see in the picture, there is a lot more texture than is shown. It looks good in our bedroom next to our mirrored furniture.