I purchased two cabinets in the Sand color (should have gotten the Chestnut), the "distressed" look amounts to someone taking a chisel of sorts and gouging out pieces of wood.(see pic) For some reason I still cannot quite figure out, there are patches of shiny paint spots looking as though someone spray painted random spots (see pics)

It does seem to be made of wood and does look nice...in the right light and if you're standing back a bit. 
Unfortunately, the glass shelves do Not support much at all. They are not thin shelves, which is in it self deceiving, but even with only a few small to medium size fiction books the glass begins to bend...my hope was to use these cabinets for a combo of Knick knacks and books. Had to reduce the number of books quite a bit.
If I had to do over, I would get something else, these were not cheap so an expensive lesson there.