The Adirondack chairs and ottomans are sturdy, they fit a large size person such as myself very well. They fit very nicely on my balcony. Both were very easy to assemble. The chairs required the insertion of the provided two pins into the pre-drilled slots on the chair frame. All I needed was a hammer to fully insert the pins. The chairs themselves are collapsible in the event that one wishes to store them for the winter. The ottomans required me to use a Phillips screw driver to screw one screw on each side of the two stabilizing arms (two on the left and two on the right), and was completed in 10 minutes or less for each ottoman. They look great and easy to care for