I have no idea why these got good reviews. I ordered four, and two were definitely mis-drilled. One of those couldn't be used at all, and the other we eventually got together, but really didn't seem stable. The third one went together better, seemed a bit more stable, but we knew it would never last long. We use our counter stools every day. We didn't even try to put together the fourth one. I returned them. I liked how the looked though.