These are sturdy, so that is nice.  From the picture I thought they were more of a dark mahogany color, but they are really more red and they're distressed.  I think that they will still look okay where I want to put them, or I might even paint them.  The one down side is that there is only one hanging bracket on the bottom of each piece, so getting them to hang was a little tricky.  We ended up using a nail higher up also and just tried to hide it behind a leaf.