The color is perfect and it fits our needs when my husband or I need to work from home. I searched hard for a desk with a deep corner for our monitor and a finished back with very specific measurements and so I was thrilled when I found this. The back actually isn’t completely finished. It’s a nail-on sheet that’s meant to be the back of the shelving unit. One side is black and one side is the color of the desk, but the black side is meant to be shown on the outside, so the finished side fills in as the back of the shelves and match the rest of the insides. I flipped the piece and nailed it backward so that the finished piece showed on the outsides. Not ideal, but workable. I put it together by myself and it took about 8 hours.