I bought this piece in Espresso.  It is beautiful and very dark.   I found this piece fairly easy to put together.  As I learned from other reviews you just have to go ahead and screw the top on and all would fall into place.  I gave a four because there were some chips inside the cabinet and on the top back left side about 13 inches of stain had literally popped off in the crease.  I just used a dark furniture crayon to fill it in since it faced the wall no one would notice.  It is a very nice and substantial piece of furniture.  A bargain at the price.