We put together this light fixture exactly as the instructions told us to, but the wire ended up too short for the length we planned it to be. We checked the instructions and we did everything correctly...the instructions just miscalculated how much wire we would need to hang the light. We had to splice the wire before it got to the ceiling (it was going to be exposed) and the only wrapping for the wire came in various colors and not clear. We ordered the clear wrapping online, waited for it to come in and then got to finish putting up the light. This was not as easy as we had hoped.