Our bench had a chip out of one of the pieces. My husband didn't
want to wait to send it back and wait again to receive it so we just
put that piece to the back of the bench. It was also difficult to put
together as some pieces didn't line up. One of the dowels was put
in the wrong hole, so my husband had to pull the dowel out, drill a 
hole there and put a dowel in the hole beside it. Other than that
we are fairly statisfied with the bench. Its really a nice little bench.