My family loves this swing.  It's very comfortable.  My boys love climbing on it.  I was a little bit nervous because it is on the cheaper side and some of the comments referenced a problem with the wood splitting, but we haven't had any problems with it.  We've had it up for about 6 weeks and use it almost every day.  We put a neutral wood seal on it as soon as it arrived.  Regarding the assembly, my husband did it.  He is rather handy with these things.  His comments were: "It's not as easy as assembling something from Ikea."  "You really need a couple of extra tools that they don't mention to do it properly." (I don't know which ones, sorry.)  "But it's not tricky."  Hope that helps.