I am very displeased with this bench because of its lack of constitution. The long screws that secure the legs to the bench are too long or the holes are too small, because even following the instructions to the letter (screwing them in sequentially)  warped the wood; one leg is warped badly enough that it looks like one wrong move will split it. I welcome any contact from Wayfair about this problem. We definitely can't sit on this bench, even if we just wanted to use it briefly to tie our shoes, for fear of breaking it. On the plus side, it looks very nice and is pretty easy to set up.