Great design, easy to put together by myself, super sturdy.It is a bit heavy, but I don't plant on taking it apart and moving it much (plus I'm a bit of a wimp). It is nice to have the carrying bag just in case. The C O L O R is a delicious green-mud-nature-moss-shade that I love SO much. It was the fact that it was such a nice, pretty hammock stand that I wanted to get it at first glance, but after researching and looking around a bit, it looked like the best one overall that we could get.I like to go camping and the thing I always miss most is resting in the hammock. Dunno why it took us so long to get a stand so we can have a hammock indoors all year long, it's great. The stand + a hammock is the most comfortable thing we have, so relaxing (I'm autistic and always uncomfortable and tired, so it is just perfect). Our cats are starting to get used to it enjoy it too (another reason I was looking for something very sturdy-- so it'd be safe to have around the kitties).Oh the instructions were a little difficult to understand, but once you figure out what goes where, it's super simple.