Much more beautiful in person. Substantial. Well built. Takes longer to put together than I thought, but it is well secured with stable components. The top is lighter to medium colored wood (yes manufactured and real), which has the blueish paint in the grain and the stain over top of the pale blueish colored grain. It's not pictured well, so for those who want to know, it's a very rough grain, not smooth at all, giving it a slightly casual appeal, though the lines are classic country French. It's really beautiful! I was concerned it would look cheap and as a lover of classic lines and furniture was concerned the colored wood would be tacky! But, it's really beautiful. As for what many have said about color, it's blue, but, the blue looks like a combined pale sage green with blue gray in soft light. In brighter light it is a light true blue. Incandescent bulbs might give it a slight bordering pale sage greenish blue quality. I love it!