While nothing will ever beat the feel and “honesty” of my real wood chairs from Vermont, they can be a lot of work to maintain and after 15+ years some of the wood has rotted.  So I gave in and tried these. They are extremely comfortable. And heavy! These are not cheap plastic chairs. They wipe clean with a wet cloth. Relatively easy to assemble with two people.  Knowing that in 10 years they will look identical as they do today is a very trade off for having real hand-crafted wood chairs.  I have zero regrets.