The bench looks great and is sturdy, but the experience of putting it together wasn't great at all. The instructions are pretty vague, leaving you to do a bit of guesswork in order to avoid ending up with leftover screws. More importantly, however, the bench is shipped with the doors screwed into the hinges, but the screws used are clearly not up to the challenge of shipping. By the time it reached us, all eight of the screws had pulled out of their holes, and had stripped the holes enough that we couldn't get them to stay in. Once we went out and bought some new, longer screws, the doors stayed on nicely. Great bench, not a great experience.