It’s funny I only bought this because it was an open box and I wasn’t completely sure I would like it, but it’s the one fan I seem to get tons of compliments on!  The blades are a brownish-gray colour which I like more than I expected to. Moves a decent amount of air, looks great, and is quiet. At the beginning we were finding one of the blades seemed to be catching a little. I had to push it to get it going but it seems to have worked it’s way out and we haven’t noticed it happening lately. Really we leave it on almost all the time anyway. If you buy more than one from the same company (as we did) you may also run into an issue with the remotes overlapping if you don’t pay attention to the set up. We have three. Two of them seem to be on the same setting and control each other. Our electrician is supposed to come back and switch something in one of the fans to fix the issue.