Beautiful lamps! And perfect accents to our new room. The great thing about this lamp is that it has 3 settings, allowing you to control how bright your lamps are. Unfortunate thing is that it requires much more expensive 3 way light bulbs that average about $16 per light bulb at home depot. We just use an energy efficient bulb and it worked fine. The other caveat are these lamps are HUGE! I had the impression they were much smaller lamps but as you can see, they take up a majority of our night stands. Still, the accent gold looks great and essentially, we are happy with our purchase.