I looked and looked for two chairs to use with a small wood table I bought. I decided on these. They are not the style I wanted (wanted more modern) but compared to so many other chairs I looked at these appeared to be ones that could be relied upon for sturdiness. I'm plus sized and no, I don't normally break chairs that I sit on, but I wanted to know that a chair was capable of supported much more weight than I am just so that I know it wouldn't break with anyone sitting on it. That was the number one selling point for these chairs, great weight capacity.Second, they are nice looking even though I would have preferred something more modern but modern style chairs that were reasonably priced often had a much lower weight capacity and I didn't want to take a chance.Are these chairs comfortable? Sigh, not really. They are solid wood so they are hard on the butt, but I bought two nice chair cushions and now both of the chairs is reasonably comfortable to sit on. Other people may not be as bothered by the hard seat, but we are achy folk, and the hard chairs were a bit too hard for us. That isn't a fault, it's wood, we knew this, but a good seat cushion was a worthy investment.I do wish the stain was less red, but I also knew this upon buying them and one of these days when I'm feeling ambitious I'll give them a light sand and then stain them more of a walnut color.Overall, these chairs are very well made and super sturdy. They aren't huge but they are heavy (a good sign when you hope what you got is actually solid wood!). If we ever get different chairs for the table, we will keep these for other uses. They are quality and I won't be letting them go!