After reading many reviews of different barstools I settled on these and I am not disappointed. They are very sturdy, they are true to color, and they are very nice looking. The main complaint that people seemed to have about these was that the screws would come loose. I tried to eliminate this problem by using lock tight on all the screws when I put them together. I also used wood glue on all the dowels for added support. I've only had them a few weeks but so far no problems and I'm loving the look of them. They are also very comfortable. Having young kids I was a little worried about the fact that these swivel 360°, because, knowing kids, they would sit and spin in these for fun and totally wear them out and beat them up. Luckily though, the mechanism takes a bit of effort to turn and there is no way they can just sit and spin freely. Awesome chairs, reasonably priced.