I love this desk.  It is just as pictured and the color very pretty (very dark brown). I wish it were a little less dark and more obviously brown but I still like it.  In fact, I found some cubes elsewhere hat matched the wood color almost exactly so that I could configure a bookcase.  As with the Pascua, I loved that it had all the pieces numbered but I didn't know that when I started. There was nothing in the instructions to indicate they were numbered and therefore it took longer than necessary to get started because I was trying to match up the pieces in the instructions.  For some reason, the diagrams wer not as easy to follow as the Pascua and the text and drawings were too small. Because of this, I ended up assembling a couple of the steps incurrectly and had to do them again.  It took longer to assemble this desk due to these problems (it looks like it is a different mfr than the Pascua but sure looks identical and part identification was the same).