I'm overall very happy with these. They are a bit more of a distressed finish than I was looking for but it's not very obvious from a distance. They also sit very upright and there isn't a curve that hugs you- this is just different from what we had before so it took some getting used to. But for the price I'm really happy with my purchase and I think they look great. My husband assembled them and reported them as a normal furniture assembly. :) Granted, he may be somewhat better than average at furniture assembly having worked at a few furniture stores in his younger days but I don't think there was anything complicated about it. They come with foam type pads to put under the chairs- I don't like them, they don't slide well. I haven't put the felt ones I have on yet because the chair legs are different sizes and I need smaller ones for the back legs. But that's not really anything to do with the chairs, just a personal preference.