The wood is thick and solid. The cushions are average, but they look nice and they come with the table, so I can’t really complain! My husband built the table and chairs and by the third chair he was cruising- easy to build. The easy to build factor what really important to us because we have had to build products from wayfair that required too much skill and have resulted in us building something that wasn’t sturdy. This wasn’t the case this time. My friends commented that “making it” in life is getting a real table. They were impressed, we were impressed, but they didn’t know that we purchased this at such a reasonable price!