We ordered two, one for over our dining table and one to shade an outdoor seating area. The Umbrellas look great, the gray is a medium carbon color. It plays nice with our modern board formed concrete, smooth white stucco and black metal exterior finishes, and with the black (Farrah) dining table, white Burt stacking chairs, Holland black sofas with white cushions and Bergeron black metal coffee table and Lacourse heavy rollable umbrella stands all ordered from Wayfair / All Modern. The umbrella fabric is fairly thin (more parachute than canvas), the umbrellas crank up and down easily and the tilt function is simple to use. There are no ties attached so we added two small black bungees to prevent them from flapping in the wind when closed. We've only had them a few weeks so don't know how they'll with stand the elements but so far they seem to be decent quality for reasonably priced umbrellas.