This has a taupe cast to it so even though it’s gray, it has more brown undertones than black undertones. We have a dark gray couch so the tone is noticeably different. But,it’s smaller size was just what I wanted and the lift works smoothly. Pay close attention to the direction you place the pieces during assembly because we didn’t and put one piece in the wrong direction and had to take the whole thing apart to fix it. User error!! This is great for our needs.