My husband (God love him!) surprised me and assembled the bench before I came home from work. If I had opened the box with him I would have immediately closed it and return it. The color is nothing like the ones depicted in the description. It arrived with a shiny brown finish and not a muted, weathered gray/brown. I felt awful asking him to take it apart and return it so now it’s in my garage… I spent the weekend sanding it and need to stain in. Much too expensive to be giving it a facelift. Beyond disappointed and would not recommend.