I don't love this as much as I wanted to. As other reviewers have said, the wooden color base is not made of wood, but instead is metal painted to look like wood. I think you can tell, and it looks cheap as a result. The lamp shade doesn't seem to fit the top quite right and was VERY hard to put together without bending it. Overall, I think the lamp looks pretty cheap, which is a shame because the price is not that cheap.