I'm giving the headboard high marks but I need to also point out that I haven't assembled it and used it yet. I am building a new house and starting to buy furnishings, but I have to store everything for a while until the house is ready. Having said that, when the headboard arrived I unpacked it and looked it all over carefully. It is very handsome and seems to be well-made. I already have a bed frame and it looks like the headboard will attach to it just fine. I'd been shopping everywhere for something of a specific height, shape, and style, not to mention price, with very unsuccessful results. I'd been hoping to find a brown leather headboard with upholstery tacks like this, but on the rare occasion when I'd find a contender, it was always much too tall (and too expensive). There's a height restriction because I plan to mount a 4' tall piece of art above the bed, beneath a 9' ceiling. This fairly low headboard answers the problem of height, and has the look and (more than) adequate quality for the price that I required.