Since we have white kitchen cabinets and oak floor so we want to find a dinner set which bears some of these colors. We went to 5 different local furniture stores, but didn't find any one we like so we decide to search online. This set looks very beautiful on the website picture. Some comments said that they are much lighter than what is shown on the picture. When we got this dining set, the color is actually darker than shown in the picture (it is of walnut color). Not sure if Great Offer Stock has shipped us the one we picked (since we saw another website sales the same set but with the darker color). However, this set still looks very good for our kitchen. The quality is very good (sturdy and heavy), the style is lovely. It does take a quite bit of effort to assemble them. One other note is that they are finished with somewhat old looking style (done purposely), but we rather have them look brand new. Overall, we are satisfying with the purchase.