Overall, this is a nice piece. The color is a very dark brown. It's made of particle board, and the holes for assembly pieces are not consistently deep, annoying to put together. Instructions said ~40 minutes to assemble... HA. My husband is an engineer and with my help, it took us at least 2 hours. One of the drawer handles arrived broken, they are made of an extremely cheap plastic. We replaced both handles (the broken and the included one) with two 96 mm handles we chose from Lowe's. For the price, it's nice. Hope it lasts us a long time? Picture included (Independence Day, yeah!).