Ada Home Decor Bancroft Scandinavian Furniture 8 Open Cubic Shelf Bookcase, Oak

I'm aware that every monitor and display will show some color variation. I even understand the specifics as to why, but I still feel the pictures provided were way darker than the product I recieved. I didn't make this purchase lightly as a 200 dollar shelf is a large purchase for someone like me, but this thing is gunmetal grey. It's not nearly black like the picture shows. Luckily it still fits in with my color coordination so I have decided to keep it, but I wanted to warn others that the Anthracite is NOT nearly black at all. Also the way this was shipped is problematic. There's actually a decent amount of protection around the outside, but all the the boards, and there are MANY boards to this shelf, easily over thirty, are just stacked one on top of another without any papers or anything in between. This obviously led to many of the boards being scuffed. It's not worth the hassle or chance of exposure to the pandemic to try to return this, but if I could do it over again I wouldn't recommend this unless they change the packaging and post honest pictures.