This bed set was perfect for our spare room. The bed-skirt and dark pillow are a dark brown, along with some of the stripping in the bedspread. It fits the queen bed perfectly but the sides of the blanket do not fall down over the bed as the picture shown on the website does. It sits just past where the bed-skirt starts. It has a small amount of bling (shine) in the bedding but nothing that would come across as overly feminine.