Lives up to the picture and better in person. There are areas where there is a distressed look where they manually placed tiny holes And where there are darker areas of grayish looking paint which are a bit artificial looking but not enough to take away from how pretty the table is. We noticed this as we assembled it so we considered returning it but once it was fully assembled and we stood it up none of this was noticeable at all. It is a very beautiful piece. We used it as a table under the TV