The chandelier blends perfectly with our dark furniture and gray walls. It was fairly easy to assemble for my husband due to his experience although someone else might find the instructions lacking. My only disappointment was that some of the candle base wooden rings were scuffed. I tried to touch it up with a furniture marker but the material is so hard that it wouldn’t take. I ended up using a sharpie but it didn’t look flawless up close. From a distance, it looks okay.