This looks just like the picture once assembled. Solid and beautiful! However, I read all of the reviews about how easy this was to assemble, but they must be leaving reviews for another product. My husband and I opened the box and quickly realized this was well beyond our capabilities so we hired a handyman to assemble it. The first thing he said - wow, that's a lot of hardware. He successfully put it together, in about an hour and 45 minutes. I am convinced that the other reviews are of people who are very handy (I mean can renovate their house on their own).