Love these but...
I bought two of these tables. They were packaged very well with extra layers of padding and bubble wrap and in a thick cardboard box. They were very heavy and good quality, I was very impressed. The reason why I gave it 3 stars instead of 5 is because of the installation. First impression, I thought installation was going to be simple, boy was I wrong. All it should have been was screwing the bolts in to connect the top to the legs. The problem was nothing lined up. The legs are made of metal and the real deal too. The metal was thick and stained your finger tips with rust. This wasn't my issue because I wanted that industrial rustic look and the materials were truly authentic and good quality. The problem was that the metal legs were too big for the space allowed to squeeze through the metal frame connected to the wood. So I thought I would maybe return that table and start working on the second one to see if there were issues with that one. And there were issues too. The metal screw holes didnt line up and there is no manipulating it to force it because it is a solid metal material. It cannot be bent. Remembering that my friend had difficulties returning through Great Offer Stock and was charging her to ship everything back and knowing how heavy these tables were, I really wanted to make them work. I had to get creative, so I unscrewed the metal frame off the wood slab and put all the metal legs and pieces together first. Then screwed the legs and base to the wood slab and had to use my drill as I had to create some new holes since they didn't line up. The one came out perfectly the second one the legs since they are different widths, it did not come out level, the one leg turns in a bit. I tried bending the legs to get them to level out but they do not bend, like I said, made of thick metal. The wood top is beautiful and is made of thick solid wood. One of the wood tops had a black scuff mark but I can live with it. I love the look of them and the quality, just hated that each leg was different shapes and it did not all go together. Thought maybe I just had a defective one but the second one was difficult too so I think its just the way the metal legs were produced. They are all slightly different.