The smell of the pieces on this item was EXTREMELY noxious right out of the box.  I don't think we've ever smelled furniture this badly before.  Are the chemicals to treat the wood legal?? We've left the pieces outside for over 2 weeks now and it still has a strong chemical smell.  We can't even put this thing together due to the smell because we don't want to inhale all the chemicals.  Will most likely send it back.