The chairs were much darker than I anticipated and wasn’t sure whether to return them, however my family persuaded me to keep them and now I’m glad I did, I love them. Quite comfortable and fairly easy to out together with fairly good instructions and lots of spare screws! Took me nearly 2hrs to put together 8 chairs on my own. They feel much lighter than my previous chairs but still feel quite  solid and for the money I can’t complain