This wine storage cabinet works great! Here is what we figured out. The box that it shipped in was extremely heavy - highly recommend this whole project as a 2 person job. I was at work when it was delivered so my boyfriend put it together by himself. He is an engineer so he was able to figure it out but it took him nearly 4 hours. He said it would be best for 2 people to do it and make sure you have a lot of space to build it. The cabinet had a lot of little instructions to do so if you get frustrated easily, take a break and come back to it. At first when he was building it, it was a little wobbly so he was worried that it wouldn't hold up. But once we got the back put on it then it was sturdy. The dark tone is almost black wood and the light tone is pretty light. Good contrast. Overall we are satisfied!