The pewter color is more like a dark, rusted bronze, and I was not impressed by the process of assembling the item. The design of the pot rack made the screws hard to place and I had to leave off most of them and hope for the best. So far, the pot rack has not fallen (I have had the rack for a bit longer than a month). The combination of the color, which was not what I wanted, and the difficulty of hanging it up mean that if I could do it all over again, I would not purchase this, but I was not displeased enough to go through the trouble of sending back the pot rack.