I like the look of the bench. It took us longer than some of the other reviews I've read to assemble - about two hours. We had a hard time getting the two middle pieces to screw in flush to the top of the bench so we had to take it a part a couple of times. It's still not flush, but you can't really see it, so we're just going to leave it as is. It's a little wobbly, but that might be due to user assembly. I don't expect us to use it for seating - just pure storage - so again, we're just going to leave it as is. Looks nice in our house.