The chairs are beautiful and look great at our bar. But .....putting them together was not that easy, the directions lack information, looks like we got one box of a returned item that someone had scratched up trying to put it together. The wood was scratched and several of the screws were stripped. However, I was able to figure out lovely adding the bottom legs then screwing in the round metal footrest tightening one by one counterclockwise and then tightening the legs at the seat. Contrary to what the directions look like, this seemed to be effortless with the other four I put together. The two that were obviously returned needed a little more muscle and time to get them together, overall happy now that they are done. We'll see how they hold up. They look really nice though!!!