Love the table; it's well built; great solid and heavy wood.  It's a darker brown, not really grey.  However, while assembling it, the first piece of wood did not fit in the area it was to go, so to get it in we had to crack off one of the ends - it needed about 1 cm more space; it still went together fine, but there is a small gap/space after we bolted it together.  Too bad, because otherwise a great table and easy to assemble.  Darker than picture.  NOTE - when table is not extended, you can NOT push a chair in at the end.