Solid built beautiful bench w some blemish
Overall quite happy with how the bench turned out to match our dining set, but I'm deducting one star since we had to go through the trouble of swapping a defect piece and there are still some minor blemishes with the second one. There's potentially considerable quality variation between individual pieces: - The first piece we received had very roughly processed wood - some joints are not sealed properly and the wood had more cracks than the second. It even couldn't be assembled properly due to mis-aligned screw holes. Luckily Overstock offered replacement pretty quickly, but we still had to go through the hassle of communications, and spend time to repack everything, find place for all the packaging and extra furniture pieces, etc. Overstock should handle QC more rigorously bc everyone is busy - The colors are darker than what appeared online but not a big issue for us. On the bench top there are a few areas with uneven paints that appear very obvious when seen against light; this does bother and I'm using some cushions to cover up for now Another potential inherent flaw with the design is the lack of support in the middle part. The bench holds well when the 103lb me sit in the middle, but bends quite noticeably for my 175lb husband. Now we have made the rule of only the smaller ppl can sit in the middle and the bigger ones need to stay on the edges if they really wanna be on the bench.
