Beautiful color not too dark. At first panicked as it only came in 3 pieces. Turns out all additional hardware and pieces are stored in a zipped enclosure in the back window the headboard. Took us a bit more than an hour to assemble it with one of the support foot not screwing in. Other than that everything was fine. Seems sturdy enough with other support beams and wayfair customer service was very helpful. Happy with this purchase!