Beautiful fixture, but if your ceilings aren't perfectly flat, you'll get a shadow next to gaps in the ceiling. We have an older house, so we have this issue. The hanging bracket that screws into the electrical box in the ceiling is a little flimsy. With a normal 8' ceiling we had to fold a LOT of excess wire (that attaches to the metal holding the glass) into the canopy by the ceiling. It was difficult to maneuver it all into that space and the nuts holding the canopy to the electrical box were perfectly round and slippery. Hex heads would have been preferred to really lock the screws to hold it all together. More difficult to install than most fixtures.