It looks just like the photos, maybe slightly lighter. I put 4 stars instead of 5 for 2 reasons:
- not the highest quality piece. Which you should be expecting from laminated particleboard. Some of the edges of the laminate were pulling off the board a bit, so I put that side against the wall. 
- I'm generally pretty competent when it comes to assembling cheap furniture. This was easy enough, but I accidentally put a couple of the vertical dividers in backwards the first time. In my opinion the instructions could have warned me more explicitly to watch out for that. Then again, maybe I'm just an idiot.