Stool are beautiful, but the colors are much different that I expected.  The seat color is not really gray, but more of a brown-taupe color, and very stiff to sit on.  The wood is really dark.  Almost a blackish-gray.  Assembly was fairly easy, but the back of one of the stool didn't match up with the bottom holes.  My husband had to drill additional holes to make it work.  Also, the directions say to use the hole in the seating pad to connect to base, but there were no holes in the bottom of the seat pad.  If you can get past all of that, the stools are good very pretty.