These are shorter than i expected. Also the gold color on the lamp before the shades, the part you can see on top, well that does not show when i put them together. So like i said, that also makes them look shorter. To top it off the packaging they came in was ridiculous. You have to put the shades on the metal peace and it came with Styrofoam and the Styrofoam got all over the sticky part of the shades and i spent hours trying to remove all that stuff from the metal shade peace to be able to put them together. I knew something was wrong when i saw that the two shades came in one small box.