It's a good stool for the price.  Honestly, looked around for about a year;  was looking for the same design, but about 8 inches shorter, but couldn't find that size.  This works.   We bought three of them.  They look cute in our outdated kitchen.  [...]  Even got the thumbs up from our good friends.   Our 5 year old son uses them to climb up to the cabinets (which makes my heart race), but I have no worries that the stool is going to collapse under him.  They're not the most comfortable things in the world, but all around, they work.