List Price: $225.00
Sale Price: $87.10
Today's Bonus: 61% Off
Installation (light bulbs facing up):
The mounting plate and back plate do not sit flush because of the electrical connectors. This fixture DOES NOT have a hole to stuff the wires back into the wall. We had to tape all the wires to the back plate before we could mount it to the wall plate (and the still get in the way).
You can see in the picture where the circle screw covers are. These two screws are the only thing holding the fixture (which is 36" long) to the back plate resulting in the top of the fixture not sitting flush on the wall. All the weight of the socket & shades force the top to stick out slightly.
Don't screw bulbs or lamp shade brackets too tightly, this will cause the socket to spin making it a pain to unscrew a light bulb (this is common for fixtures with shades)
Look:
Rope-like design at the bottom of the lights look flush in the picture, but they stick out. It doesn't look bad but it threw me when I looked at the fixture for the first time thinking "did they send the right fixture?"
Platinum Mist color is pretty. It's not a normal finish, looks like the "mist" is painted on brushed nickel. But it you touch it, you can tell the platinum base was probably painted on too. Haven't been able to find ANY towel bars that match this finish :(
Lighting:
Originally mounted fixture with the bulbs pointed to the floor thinking it would provide better illumination by bouncing off the mirrors; however, the shades are very large and came down covering about an inch of the mirror. We reinstalled pointing to the ceiling, and it looks great. Our previous fixtures were each 6-bulbs, and these 4-bulb fixtures (with 60W bulbs installed/100W Max) provide great lighting even with a dark brown paint on the walls.
Packaging:
One of the boxes arrived as though it was returned and repackaged incorrectly leaving me with two broken shades and one cracked. HomeClick responded to my email in less than 4 hours and I received the replacements within a week. A+ for customer service!
Summary:
The manufacture should lower the regular price to $100/$120, lessening the expectation of the buyers who think they just purchased a "high quality" product because the caught a great sale. $60 for a 4-light, 36" vanity fixture is a heck of a deal! They don't "look" cheap (even with the top not lying flush) but they also don't look like we splurged and bought $250/fixture. The fixtures add a nice touch to our master bathroom and can't complain for the price I paid :)
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