the outside pail is great and looks just the like the picture. What I didn't expect was the internal bucket. I can see how this would be nice for functionality (you can remove the inside bucket to dumb the compost and it's plastic so easier to wash); however, we use biodegradeable compost bags, so this functionality was not great for us. The down side is that the interior bucket shrinks the available space to store the compost so that 0.12 cu. ft. ends up being much less.