This is a beautiful piece of furniture for your back yard.  It is unfinished wood so to perfect what looks like flaws in the finish just buy some Linseed Oil to use on the wood and it will look great. I just assembled it by myself yesterday so I have not used it yet.  I am a 73-year-old grandma and pretty handy so you can do it too. A couple of suggestions: They only send exactly the number of screws that you need no extras, so don't drop any and don't stripe the heads.  I did both and have a couple of issues with that problem.  Just warning you.  I do love it!