The bench is really nice...but it has some flaws on the seat part.  On portions of it, there are little squares, almost like a piece of wood was placed in there.  It is not like that everywhere, just on one end.  There are approx. six places like that, they are just kind of scattered on one end and the other end isnt like that.  I'm going to live with it, as I think it would be a nightmare to try to send it back.