The color was the same as the picture. It was a mix of beige and a kind of brown. It looks nice and blends well with the other furniture. The tree itself has a good amount of weight to it and seems very stable, even for big cats. There appears to be very little, if any, padding in-between the wood and the carpeting.  The glue job on all the perches at the inside bottom it really bad. If you run your finger around the inside circle of each perch you can feel the glue and it is hard and sharp. I'm not sure it would injure the cat, but I put a glove on and tried to push it down as much as I could so it wasn't as sharp or sticking out as much. We will keep the tree but because of the horrible glue job we will buy from retail moving forward so we can inspect it before we buy it. Overall, not to bad.