Do a search in google for black slatted headboard. You'll find a couple...some have the slats without the curve, some have the curve but with fewer slats....

This is really a nice bed, that look's nice, just do a goggle search you will come to know many links from where you can get bed's such like this, hope so plenty of nice beds you will get their.

Dang! Who let the chatbots loose?

Ive seen beds similar to that at Badcock Home Furnishings. Many times they have many colors options and usually include black.

Also found: http://www.amazon.com/Hillsdale-Furniture-1655BQR-Sleigh-Textured/dp/B001BX714S/ref=pd_sim_sbs_hg_5

and: http://www.amazon.com/American-Drew-Slat-Bed-Queen-Black/dp/B002EDH44Q/ref=sr_1_20?ie=UTF8&qid=1366808011&sr=8-20&keywords=black+queen+slat+bed

Here is a link that might be useful: Badcock & More Website Link

I can't help you find it but I suggest ordering just a headboard and no footboard. My husband is tall and is much happier in a footboard free bed. Since your son is only 14 and has years of growing yet to do, no footboard will give him more room for whatever is final height might be.

I see headboards like that a lot on my craigslist...you might check yours. You could get any finish and then paint it black, which would be fairly easy.

Agree in regard to ordering just headboard. No telling how tall he will get.

Another option to consider is a iron/metal bed, although I really like the bed you posted.

We have a similar bed and I can't tell you how many times I've bumped into that flared footboard with my thighs. It hurts!

Here's a whole page of them, I'm particularly taken with the black leather surrounded by wood trim. I don't know of a guy who wouldn't like that. A padded headboard is so much more comfy and leather is easy to maintain. I agree no foot board. We're all tall and never use them and it's easier to make a bed.

Here is a link that might be useful: queen headboard

Below is the site for the one I think he'd love.

Here is a link that might be useful: headboard

Thanks so much for the excellent suggestions and the links! It looks like we'll have some good options online. When we narrow it down to a few contenders I may be back to get some input. With headboards tending to be taller these days, we also have to consider that my son has a full size basketball hoop mounted above his bed and the backboard starts just 58" above the floor. I thought that he might be ready to take that down but apparently not(!)

That's a good point about the footboard being an issue as he gets ever taller, not to mention the bruises that it could inflict. I like the finished look that it gives so we may lean toward something that has a footboard that is lower than the (top of the) mattress.

Thanks very much!