this lamp is perfect & I was even able to adjust it to fit a lower ceiling. The but is what some of the other reviews talked about. As soon as I screwed the base to the pole the nut in the pole stripped & wouldn't tighten up. It didn't even feel like it was getting hard to turn & it stripped. I didn't want to send it back because it really was what I wanted. I went to the local hardware store & got two more nuts like the one that came with the lamp. 95 cents. I then used the two new nuts to double nut on one end of the bolt. I then duct taped the double nutted end of the bolt to the end of a broom handle & fed it through the pole & screwed the bolt threw the stripped out nut. Then installed the base with the supplied nut. Tightened up great. Then just twist the broom handle until the duct tape breaks & remove the broom handle.  Seems like a lot of work but not too bad & the lamp really is worth it.