The stools appear to be very well made. Exactly what I expected!  The only issue was assembly. Its not that it was necessarily hard, I hate using an Allen wrench!  And some of the screws were in such a place I had a hard time. Even when I pulled out the cordless drill with the proper attachment, some of the screw locations were hard to get to. Overall I am very happy with them. I assembled myself (48yr old female) and I bet it took me a good couple hours