Once it's assembled, it looks very good. The shade is huge which worked out for me but you do need to realize the size of the whole lamp, it's meant to be in a corner of a room with not much else surrounding it, not as anything tucked behind a couch or something like that. The frustrating bits are the build, it's pretty annoying getting the screws in place, and more importantly (perhaps my bad for not reading enough) the whole thing is made of a somewhat thin metal, painted to look like wood. The wire is black and can be seen somewhat easily as it's just tucked into the leg (why not make this white or even a brown to blend? The benefit is it's light weight but ultimately for ~100 dollars for a lamp you'd think youre getting some real wood here, not a tinny metal.