The design and overall look is great.  Love the extra seating and it feels like a high-quality piece of furniture. Only gripe is that the lid is very heavy and you need to lift it at a certain angle to get it up. it's a bit hard to do this myself as I have long nails. Oh, and the packaging it came in. It was very secure as the table came assembled to us, but you need certain tools to pry it open. It took us about an hour just to get the crate open without the tools as the crate was nailed in and there wasn't instructions on how to get it open with ease.