We bought six of these chairs (unfinished) to go with a farmhouse style table.  We painted the body and stained the seat - the seat took gel stain beautifully - it had a bit of a salt and pepper look after which was pretty enough.  The chairs were fairly easy to assemble but after assembling they did rock a bit.  We tried to balance them out but have not been able to do that with all of them yet.  If you sit in the chairs then the rocking stops but this obviously puts unnecessary strain on the chair and probably is not good in the long run.  The seats are not super comfortable - I don't think you would want to sit for hours in them but they are sufficient for our needs.