We bought this to add another seating space to our back yard for our son's graduation. We received several compliments from our guests. The finished piece is beautiful, my only warning is to read each step of the directions to the end before beginning the assembly. Some of the directions are a little difficult to understand even after reading them several times. This is by far not our first large assembly which required following multiple pages of directions and we still had to redo a few things after we realized we did them wrong.