This a great chandelier, especially for the price!  Everyone who has seen it loves the way it looks.  When the lightbulbs are lit the metal geometric bars on the top of the chandelier cast square shadows on the ceiling making the ceiling look like it is a coffered ceiling.  Even though the metal structure has a slightly "brushed" black look when viewing close up, it appears to be solid black from a distance.  We installed cylindrically-shaped bulbs like shown in the online photo but had to use bulbs a bit shorter because we could not find the taller ones.