One thing that surprised me is that there are light colored brown streaks in the off-white background color. I had thought that this was an entirely off-white color and that's it. But it's not too bad. The only way you can notice the streaks is if you stand too close to it. It was kind of hard to put together, the directions had only pictures, but after a while (it took me about 3 hours to put together by myself), it wasn't that hard anymore....the pictures got easier to figure out. The one thing I really liked about this was that the hardware you needed for each step were bagged together in 1 bag. For example, for Step 1, all the hardware needed were in 1 bag, so all you need to do is to cut it open and get the hardware for that step. But it's a nice cabinet.