The lamps arrive much darker - a very dark chocolate brown - than they appear in this photo. Also, in the photo, they appear to have a lighter colored stripe running vertically down the center, but this is just a shadow cast by the lighting, so if you're looking for this particular design you'll be disappointed when you take them out of the box and find that they are just plain lamps. But if the color is less important to you than the shape, these lamps are fine and are packed extremely well, though the densely packed styrofoam peanuts are difficult to clean.