My wife and I wanted an affordable mid-centuryish coffee table, and we both loved the way this one looked on the site. After I put it together (which was pretty painless), I noticed that the top of the table has a wide "stripe" down the middle, where one of the three planks of wood that make up the tabletop has a slightly different finishing than the wood around it. It wasn't worth the hassle of returning it, but it's noticeable.