It is exactly what we needed to shade the sun from our deck so we can use it in the summer.  It looks nice and is easy to use though opening the umbrella is a bit of a stretch for us short people.  My only "wish" is that the sand bags opened up wider so I could just slip a bag of sand from the hardware store in there instead of having to put loose sand in there and then dealing with 100 lbs of sand when I put it away for the winter.