The stool arrived quickly and was packaged very very well, so appreciated that.  The piece is well built and appears to be made of good quality materials, and I love the color of it (sort of a light aqua blue).  Very nice.  The only problem was with the assembly.  I've assembled many things before, and so I followed the directions which seemed pretty easy and clear.  Unfortunately the directions did not state that you must fit the crossbar piece into the legs BEFORE attaching them.  So.........I had to take great pains to remove the legs which were now screwed on tightly, in order to install the crossbar.  For anyone buying this, make sure you fit in the crossbar and just place the legs loosely into place to do this.  If you install the legs first as in "Step 1" of the instructions, there is no way to fit the crossbar into place.  Took off 1 star for the unclear instructions.