The stool is very sturdy! Lots of seating room. I will prob give them a coat of paint to match with my dove white cabinets. The only tricky part on putting them together was the cross bars on legs. If you are putting it together and get confused, remember the screws will be up to the ceiling. Double check you have the right screws bc they are diff for diff parts. After the first one was done, the second one was put together in 5 min, by myself as an over 50 year old woman. I had to get new footrest bars and surrounding parts bc the holes on one foot rest was diff than the other 3. But they are sending these parts free.