Review of Progress Lighting P3513-46 Arts and Craft 2-Light Close-To-Ceiling

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To begin with, once this item is installed, the light emitted is so weak that you will need other sources of light. I think this should be marketed as an outside light and it is not meant for inside your home. Also, the installation is a nightmare. The disk to append it to the ceiling does not allign with the screw holes in any way. This item does not cone assembled and assembly is not easy at all. Also, the insulation used is glass wool and it itches twrribly and it gets into the skin as you try to install this lamp. To make things worse, when you open the packaging you find that this item is packed with cheap brittle crushed brown paper that gets everywhere and is a nightmare to clean. I should have returned this item immediately but but we pressed on with the installation to the point where once we installed it half way there was no way we could take it down and repackage it without wasting additional colossal

amounts of time and patience. Additionally, because the pacakging is so poor I could not send the item back becauae i did not want to deal with the above mentioned crushed brittke brown paper nor with the glass wool of the insulation. so i spent about 90 bucks and i have a useless lamp which is too weak to work by itself and I regret buying it every time I lay my eyes on it.

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The slate comes in 9 pieces which the user must install. The slate absorbs a lot of light. I have two compact fluorescent bulbs installed with total equivalent light output of 200 watts. The resulting output through the slate seems like having one old dim 25 watt incandescent bulb. I like the style of this fixture, but I won't be able to live with the dim light output, so I have removed 4 slate pieces, at least temporarily until I can find some craft person who can customize various glass textures cut to size to replace the slate. The thumb screws that hold the decorative casing to the inner fixture are difficult to align and screw in. I've almost stripped the thread a couple of times now.

As soon as I can get the right glass pieces in it, I think I'll love it, but for now, I've been frustrated and disappointed.

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First major problem: they don't tell you it doesn't come installed. You have to put all the glass pieces in. They don't hold in tightly so there are gaps (so in my case I put in metal wire to hold them up.) But then I held it up to the fixture with a lit bulb and it was DARK yellow. Like an exit light. The picture makes it look MUCH lighter than it really is. They call it honey glass but they don't show it like honey. So picture the color of honey and then that's what this looks like. But it's also ridiculous to have to construct it oneself and not have the glass sit properly.

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This should not be called a "light" since it provides none! The installation was a nightmare, and we could not place it the way we wanted on our ceiling. We gave up and just wanted to be done with it. Once we powered up the light we couldn't believe it was actually on! It was a horrible dark yellow glow. We took it down immediately. I also purchased the matching mini-pendants which are just as bad to install, but we liked the light they provided so we kept them in place.

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some people say I am too influenced by Minecraft, but I really loove my lamp. The light is not very strong but perfect for what I need.