This coffee table pulls its weight. It’s solid. The day it arrived each of our kids (independent of one another) walked into the living room, stepped up on it and launched onto the couch. There are 4 of them. It handled that job like a boss.
The tone of the wood is glowy in a late-afternoon-light kind of way. The under shelf holds quite a bit (more than I expected) - we have 16 quilting books, a Nerf gun and a box of dominoes tucked in there and there’s still room for an apple core or two. Of course, the top is now buried in books of all kinds and often a cold cup of tea but it still looks very pretty. All in all, it’s a welcome addition to a busy room.