I looked at a lot of chandeliers for my dining room before deciding on this one. Several people complained that it has silver stripes on the black, which they didn't like. Well, I just had my LR/DR painted gray with a darker gray accent wall, so I knew this was the chandelier for me. It looks amazing in my DR. I have it on a dimmer (the old one was already on a dimmer) and the ambiance of the dimming is even better than I imagined.