No surprises.  What you see on the website is what you get.  Instructions were rudimentary but easy enough to follow.  Leaving everything slightly loose until it was all together helped when I squared it up.  It is quite sturdy.  Decided to open the box on the back patio.  Good thing because I could smell the wood finish product.  Spread out the parts outside, wiped them down and left them to air for a few hours before assembling took care of that.