The holes don't align and this is laying on my living room floor in pieces after trying to put it together for an hour. I'm pretty good at putting things together - it ain't me. I see another review here says to not tighten the screws AT ALL until it's all together, so I'll try that next. But the directions say to tighten them 90% so that's not correct and highly irritating. The wood also has scratch marks right out of the box. It's a pretty cheap chair but you get what you pay for. We'll see if I can ever get it together.