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(More customer reviews)First the positives. It's got a heavy base, the metal pipes are solid, and overall, it looks pretty nice. If it was standing in a corner of someone's house, I'd probably think it was a nice lamp.
Sadly, it's standing in the corner of my house, and that means I know how much fiddling it took to get set up and working. Let's start with the packaging. Bring a vacuum cleaner, because the pieces are boxed with very flimsy, flaky styrofoam. The real problem with this isn't the mess, though. It's that all of the little pieces inside are tossed around in transit. This resulted in a broken bulb and glass cover in one of the two I bought, and I found the other bulb wedged into the side of the box on the other. Once everything is out, check all of the pieces, specifically screws. The lamp ships with many of the screws already in place, and they fall out easily. I found one on my porch after several minutes of fruitless sifting through styrofoam debris in my living room. And this brings us to the next issue, the bulb guards. Some nicer halogen lamps come with tempered glass plates to guard against anything falling into the bulb itself. This one comes with two poorly-assembled wire cages. The outermost is almost guaranteed to arrive bent out of shape (due to the flimsy, fine-gauge wires that were used), and though you can try, it probably will never end up looking like the nice dome that it was supposed to be.
After pushing together all of the pieces (the wire components don't actually have screw holes, they friction-fit onto the screws), the lamp *did* work, but I'm somewhat disappointed in the brightness. The bulb just isn't very powerful, and that's more or less the reason I went for a halogen lamp. Still, I am not afraid of it starting a fire; the electrical work is solid enough, and the guards (while somewhat ugly) are probably effective enough at avoiding a dust buildup or letting something fall into the bulb. I'll probably keep it (if only out of stubbornness from having spent too much money on it), but if you have the choice, I'd look elsewhere for a standing lamp.
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Product Description:
This contemporary torchiere lamp shines upward to reflect light off the walls and ceiling.Constructed of metal with a black finish sitting on a heavy weighted base.Lamp has a dimmer switch and includes a 190 watt halogen bulb.
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