These chairs came disassembled which was very daunting to my roommate and I (being young professional women with out a construction bone between the two of us) however we were able to figure it out and put them together pretty easily. Only one of the chairs we were unable to make perfectly level (we got 4). Also, maybe we just didn't read the directions well but we didn't realize there were different sized screws and the threw us off for a while. Other than that these chairs have been awesome so far and work really well with our nautical theme with out being too girly. My boyfriend even loved them... he tactfully showed up to "help" after we had gotten them fully assembled... meh gotta love it!