These chairs are beautiful! So far they seem like good quality and are very sturdy. I put these together by myself using only the tools provided. It was very simple but I did see what others mean by holes not lining up. However, if you align the longer screw first and screw in only a couple turns, then do the same with other two smaller screws and then gradually screw them all in, it actually goes much better. The first chair took me an hour including breakdown of the box etc. second chair only took 30 minutes.