Well for starters, let me say I finally got the thing together and it looks beautiful. It looks exactly the way I had hoped. However, a lot of the legs and pieces were slightly bent and curved when it arrived, the box it came in looked fine so I am not sure if it was shipping damage or what? But it added a whole other step to the assembly process because we were constantly having to manipulate the metal and bend the legs to get anything screwed together. Often times the screws didnt quite line up, and we would have to do even more bending and pressing to get it to fit. If my boyfriend weren't a former carpenter, I don't actually know if we would have been able to get it together. Now that it is assembled I am quite happy with it, but wow, the assembly was a lot more than we had planned for.