Remington Mission Rocking Chair

Good chair for the price

We have been shopping around for awhile for rocking chairs to use for our upcoming baby. I wanted to buy a high quality chair that I hoped I could move into the living room down...Read complete review

We have been shopping around for awhile for rocking chairs to use for our upcoming baby. I wanted to buy a high quality chair that I hoped I could move into the living room down the road and keep forever, perhaps passing down as an heirloom. After looking everywhere in stores, we realized that rocking chairs were much more expensive than we had anticipated for the style/comfort that we wanted. Our favorite chair was actually almost a duplicate of this chair, made by a high quality company (Stickley and Co.) but it was priced at [$] I was very hesitant about buying online because you can't see the quality of the wood or feel the comfort, but the dimensions were very similar and the price was MUCH MUCH cheaper, so i decided to purchase. I have to say that you get what you pay for, but I don't mean that this is not a great chair. The chair is extremely comfortable, and right now looks fantastic (although I agree with another reviewer that the wood/cushion look a little darker than the picture). Its a very heavy/sturdy chair and I don't think there will be any issues with the pieces creaking or coming apart, despite the fact that it was extremely quick and easy to assemble. The only problem I ran into is out of the box, there were small dings and irregular varnish spots on the wood. Not anything major, and most people who look at it probably wont notice it, but you can see multiple spots that just look like machine scratches from the assembly line and quick sprayed on varnish. I called the company and they were very polite and helpful and gave three options: 1. return for money back (postage included) 2. they would send a new one and I could exchange out the pieces that were scratched and send them back (postage included) 3. give a 10% discount. I ended up going with the 10% discount because after looking at all the pieces, there were small areas of irregularities on all of them and I didn't think exchanging would get any better quality. Bottom line, I think this is a GREAT chair for the PRICE, but its not a high quality chair that will last forever without looking worn. And by worn, I don't mean "antiqued".