Beautiful muted look. It is just our style -elegant yet casual. We mounted in our two story foyer and it is just right. I did install it myself which I only recommend if you can devise a plan to use both hands and are fairly strong . I should have gotten scaffolding or had a person hold it with a pole while I wired and mounted it. The little hole the wires go through on the mounting bracket, there is not much space so you really need two strong hands free to install. It comes with the beads off the rings but they were on the strings. My daughter and I put this together and installed in about 2 hours. The instructions say 10 mins, but I think that is unrealistic unless you have everything setup already, it all unpackaged and you have a good plan about how to mount it with two hands free for the wiring.