The light is as beautiful as it appears in the picture!  I placed it in my foyer and it is gorgeous!!  My husband and I are not electricians, but we replaced our old fixture with this one with very little problems.  Because this light has the exposed black wires at the very top, at first we were not sure which one was to be wired to "white" and which one went with the "black" wire.  For those of you like us who are handy, but not electricians, if you will look at both black cords, there will be white writing on the cord that goes to the "white."  We didn't see this at first, but once we figured that part out, we were good to go!  Beautiful fixture, and I am really happy with the amount of light that this puts out!!