It looks perfect next to my front door. The aged bronze is a beautiful color and it matches a metal sun sculpture on the wall of my little beach cottage. The only thing I'd add would be a flag for outgoing mail. The first time I used it for outgoing mail - I used a clothespin to put the mail outside the box and the mailman missed it - as he didn't have any mail for me that day and didn't see a flag. You know how it is when you're looking for just one thing and don't see anything else. Also - will have to devise some way of notifying him when it rains that I have outgoing mail as I won't want to have it hanging outside the box. Otherwise, it is very cute and exactly what I wanted. The embossed design is subtle - the colored one just didn't float my boat in the same way - and the color perfect. Just - get an outgoing mail flag for this thing and it would be a perfect mailbox.