Well. Every review is correct.  The instructions are laughable but the light is wonderful once done. 

I don’t know if you can say we “varied” from the lacking instruction, but we built the light on the ground and suspended it on a pole on bar stools to allow it to hang while we put it 
together. If we had to hang it and assemble in the air, it would have been more difficult. 

It took about 3.25 hours to assemble the core.  Not terrible and we often referenced other photos and the “instructions”. 

It then took three people about and hour to hang. 

Once it was hung then the 186 crystals were hung. 

In the end, it’s well worth it. We went with the 4w led and at full brightness they are bright.  Fortunately our dimmer can be “tuned” to a high and low extremes so we were able to set it where it is a great mood light on low and doesn’t blind you on high.  

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