The whole set is beautiful, table seems sturdy chairs are very comfortable, bench perfect height for our daughter and her friends. That said, it was somewhat hard to put together. My husband has put together most of our furniture and daughters toys etc and the table alone took him more than 3 hours . chairs were not easy either but not as bad. Bench was the only easy one. But once the assembly is done you will be rewarded with a beautiful patio set , we hope to have it around for years to come !