The bar stools are beautiful and of great quality.  BUT:  My husband is retired from the building trades and knows how to put things together.  The directions say 10 minutes to assemble. He is well experienced at nuts, bolts and threads. It to him an hour and a half to do one chair.  The bolts which are 1/4 32 thread were very hard to start.  All of them did not line up even, but he got the chair together after a lot of work.  If I had known this I would not have purchased the chair.