This table is beautiful- we had a bunch of issues with actually getting it delivered (first time around, they forgot the legs!) but eventually, with a lot of help from Customer Service, it arrived in our home and was assembled. I cant speak on the ease of assembly because we had it assembled for us, but it's a VERY heavy table so I imagine it would be difficult. The color is a beautiful very dark brown, it had a strong odor at first but dissipated after a few days. Pretty easy to clean. It seats 12 comfortably, we have squeezed 14 on occasion.