I love the design of this fan.  It is a perfect size for our medium-sized living room.  Puts out an appropriate amount of light and the fan speeds are perfect and quiet.  The install instructions were awful - pictures only, no actual written instructions, and the steps appeared to be out of order.  I do not like that the remote control is mandatory - who needs another remote control!?  Our home has 3 separate wall switches that ran our previous ceiling fan/light and now only one of them works and only on the light, not the fan.  You are required to use the remote to control the fan. I would have given it 4 stars if there was a way to bypass the remote.