I was pleasantly surprised at the color of this chest. The picture on my computer looks much darker than the actual color, which is a light ash or birch wood. This matches my bedroom dressers which were from Ikea.  I bought it as extra bathroom storage for the master bath. I had intended to paint the chest but now think I might just sand the top and finish with a satin lacquer and leave it natural. The chest was easy to put together, took me 3 hours by myself, from unpacking to moving in place.  The trickiest thing on the assembly was the support piece on the bottom of the drawer. You have to be careful of the screw's angle so as not to go through the inside wall of the drawer.  Overall, it's a solid piece and doesn't look cheap.
pleased at the quality