My wife and I love the stools and they look much better than the price. You could pay twice as much and not get as nice a stool. My problem with them was the small parts came loose in the box! How hard would it have been to seal these in a small plastic bag. This happened with not one but both of my stools. On the second chair I had to buy washers for the ones that went missing to complete the assembly. Also, the first chair went together perfectly but the second had one leg decidedly shorts than the others. There are pieces at the bottom that adjust to even the chair out but I had to unscrew the short leg to the maximum length just to get it so it wasn't wobbly. I will have to take the chair apart and reassemble to try to correct - but I think the leg was just cut a bit short. Other than those bumps - which were irritating - the chairs have been great.