The mantle is beautiful and was easy to assemble, but  I won't be hanging it until my room is painted.  There is a small damaged area about 2" long on one end where the laminate is scuffed up with some bare wood showing.  I believe it was that way before it was shipped because it was packaged very well with lots of styrofoam panels, so I don't see how it could have happened during shipping.  I don't care for the round pearl inlay on the same end as the scuffed area.