These are awesome. Easy to put together, sturdy, and comfortable. Beautiful wood and nice heavy metal. My one small suggestion to the manufacturer is this: Don’t paint the washers black to match the metal under the seats. (The paint made the washers stick together and they were hard to pry apart! And no one sees them under there, so they don’t need to be black.)  These stools are such a great value, so beautiful, and so sturdy that I can’t even take off a half star for that! (Also, in the photo we haven’t taken all the packaging off the bottoms of them yet! We’ve been using them like this for two weeks. We’ll take it off soon and put some felt on there. :-) Highly recommend!