Didnt read the reviews before I purchased this chair, but the price should have given me some apprehension, yet I ordered it anyway. The assembly took me over an hour so not sure where the 15 minutes in the description came from. The instructions are a bit hard to understand, but Ive put many IKEA type products and their instructions are about the same (pictorial instructions). There are 6 bolts to attach the bottom seat to the back frame and it was very difficult to use the hex key because you can only swing it so far before you hits the back frame so it takes a lot of time and muscle. I did find that if I had placed the dowels in the two holes and then the two middle bolts it might have aligned the chair better so the holes would line up. Once I finished the 4 outer bolts, the final instruction was to put the two middle bolts and when I did that I noticed the 4 outer bolts were easier to turn because before that happened there was about 1/8 left of two bolts that I just could seem to screw any further and since they are 2 1/2 inch long I figured with 4 of them they were in as much as I could muster and still make the chair sturdy. Glad that the two middle bolts gave me the alignment I needed to screw the bolts down tight. Would I buy another chair, have to think about that! Oh, yes, the chair is not very big
Definitely HARD to assemble!
Didnt read the reviews before I purchased this chair, but the price should have given me some apprehension, yet I ordered it anyway. The assembly took me over an hour so not sure where the 15 minutes in the description came from. The instructions are a bit hard to understand, but Ive put many IKEA type products and their instructions are about the same (pictorial instructions). There are 6 bolts to attach the bottom seat to the back frame and it was very difficult to use the hex key because you can only swing it so far before you hits the back frame so it takes a lot of time and muscle. I did find that if I had placed the dowels in the two holes and then the two middle bolts it might have aligned the chair better so the holes would line up. Once I finished the 4 outer bolts, the final instruction was to put the two middle bolts and when I did that I noticed the 4 outer bolts were easier to turn because before that happened there was about 1/8 left of two bolts that I just could seem to screw any further and since they are 2 1/2 inch long I figured with 4 of them they were in as much as I could muster and still make the chair sturdy. Glad that the two middle bolts gave me the alignment I needed to screw the bolts down tight. Would I buy another chair, have to think about that! Oh, yes, the chair is not very big