Love this ceiling fan.  The blades are reversible for a light grey look or a black and the braided gems look like a million bucks!  It DOES come with light bulbs.  The light bulbs are a clear Edison looking type, but are bright daylight white color.  I ordered the version with the remote. It works great! With the remote control install you do lose the ability to operate the light by the wall switch due to the way the remote receiver is wired, so you can only turn on the light via remote controller.  You can still turn the actual fan part on or off via wall switch.  Complete pull chains are also still included, but I did not want them hanging down, so I trimmed them above the lower tier.