I really love this piece! I had a little difficulty with putting it together, but I blame that on my lack of spacial reasoning skills. The bench itself is really sturdy and the wood tone is a beautiful dark walnut. The one piece of feedback would be that I’d like for the pad to be a bit heavier duty and able to attach to the be ch (so it doesn’t slide when opening), but that’s not a big enough gripe to take a star off.