It's a great looking piece.  I love how it looks.  It's very sturdy. I'me very happy with how it turned out. The assembly is quite cumbersome and the directions are not completely clear, as it pertains to orientation of certain hardware.  It takes looking ahead a bit to prevent having to undo some.  A part was missing preventing final assembly (large carriage bolt) so had to go to hardware store to complete assembly. But I would emphasize that I would buy this again and recommend highly. The 4 star is only because of complex assembly and missing part that delayed completion.