I was really happy with the look of these counterstools. I originally had bar stools and these are about 5 inches lower. It takes getting used to the height difference, but I really like the stools. The first set came scratched and dirty but customer service immediately rectified the problem and now I have a beautiful new set. The install directions were wrong. For some reason “L” for left didn’t actually match “L” , but matched “R” for right. It was confusing for the first stool but once I figured that out, the second stool was a piece of cake.