This table is awesome. We needed a table that would fit our family of 16; when extended it does just that. When not extended it looks very nice in our not very large dining room.  It is very heavy and well made and my husband and I (two old folks) didn't feel we were up to the task of putting it together.  So we enlisted the help of our two adult grandsons; they had no trouble at all putting it.  The coolest part is the magical way it is made; four legs become eight legs whwen extended.