We bought the fan with polished nickel finish and it looks great in our sun room. We have only had it up for 3 days but so far so good. This unit is fairly heavy so make sure where you mount it has the proper reinforced box. My husband installed this fan by himself in around 2 hours, but that included taking down the old one. We chose to flush mount it because it would hang too low with the 6 inch extention rod. Love it so far,runs silently and looks great.