This is a nice piece and I got it on sale so with the sale price I would say it’s worth the value. I think it’s more of a deep beige in the photos and it’s more of a light beige/greige in real life. It’s still a nice piece but it does look more elegant in pictures. Assembly was long but not difficult…as others have said, the hydraulic piece didn’t seem to be pushing down but once we completed installation and tightened everything, it worked (I think actually you should save the hydraulic piece for last, we did that in the end which eventually worked).