I recently purchased this light to replace a set of low-hanging bar lights that were falling out of the ceiling due to improper installation from the previous owners of the house, and because I wanted to put a pot rack near this location and this style of light would suit the setup better. I did some research and tried to steer away from the really cheap stuff, settling on this light due to its appearance, high enough price that seemed to imply the quality might be better than some others, and the ability to pivot the two arms for better final positioning. The light itself is fine. Mine did not come with bulbs, but I planned to use LED bulbs in it anyway so I ordered those at the same time. Out of the box, all the threaded bulb bases were skewed to one side so that the bulbs sat noticeably crooked and touching the shrouds when threaded in. I took them all back out and bent the bases to center the bulbs. Once installed the light looks decent and provides adequate lighting for its size. I did find it to be a bit smaller than I had envisioned, but this wasn't a problem and the dimensions listed are accurate. Where I have to knock 2 stars off is the very cheap mounting system that uses nonstandard hardware. The light comes with 2 brackets, one which attaches directly to the junction box, and a second which attaches to the first bracket. This second bracket includes 2 screws for the fixture base itself to hang from, capped by round "nuts" that match the outside of the light since they are visible on the exterior. The second bracket also has an arc-shaped slot cut in it for where it mounts to the first bracket, so that you can position the fixture base at any angle you please relative to the junction box mounting. In my installation I needed these to be parallel to each other; the light arrived with them loosely assembled in a perpendicular orientation. Both of these brackets are typical cheap stamped mild steel which is thin, meaning that the amount of threads in the threaded holes is very small. If you have to remove and install the screws several times while fiddling with the installation, as I did, these are likely to strip out. That is strike number one. Strike number two comes from the fact that the screws provided to hang the light fixture from are a single length and if you orient the 2 brackets in line with each other as I needed to, they cannot be backed out at all (to shorten their effective length) as they will run into the junction box mounting bracket. In some cases, if your junction box is significantly recessed, they may also not be long enough. This wouldn't be a huge deal if other lengths of screws were included (they aren't), but you might assume you could just go to the hardware store and buy some different lengths of screws for 50 cents each and be on your way. Wrong - the screws included are not any standard imperial or metric screw size. They have 32 threads per inch, matching the very common 6-32 and 8-32 screw sizes, but the diameter falls halfway in between those 2, meaning that if you try to use either of those sizes the included securing nuts will not fit. Since those are visible on the outside of the light and are painted to match it, you want to use them. In my case the screws were too long and I really should have just cut them shorter with a hacksaw, but I ended up buying 8-32 hardware and using a tap to re-thread the securing nuts. By the time I was done test fitting everything, the threads in one of the bracket holes had stripped, as I mentioned earlier in the review, so the light can now pivot around on the ceiling if someone touches it. Fortunately it's unlikely it will be an issue, but it still does not reflect well on the overall build quality. If I could do it all over again I would probably just buy one of the cheaper no-name lights with the same overall appearance. Paying extra for this one didn't get me a better quality product, and I am particularly disappointed in the weird, non-standard screws that were chosen for absolutely no conceivable reason. Regular hardware that you can find at any hardware store is not expensive and should be interchangeable with the included screws so that if your installation requires a different length, you can deal with it. I don't expect the lamp manufacturer to cover every possible installation scenario with different screw lengths (although some products do actually do this and I respect that), but furthermore making it impossible for the buyer to handle that themselves without cutting screws or tapping holes is not acceptable.
