Minka Lavery Contemporary 17"H Brushed Nickel Wall Sconce

We installed these (with a dimmer switch) on the wall on each side of the bed instead of using bedside table lamps. They are fantastic, buautiful, space saving and just the contemporary look we wanted.

Pros: Attractive Design, Perfect for our needs, Good Lighting Area, Convenient On/Off, Easy to Change Bulb

Best Uses: Primary Light Source, Reading, Decoration, Ambiance

Mounted on either side of a bathroom vanity makes shaving easy. Milk white glass diffuses light without glare or shadows.

Pros: Easy to Change Bulb, Easy To Install, Attractive Design, Good Lighting Area

Best Uses: Primary Light Source, Ambiance

Used on both sides of bath vanity; great light to use for applying makeup, etc. I really like that it is adjustable.

Pros: Adjustable, Diffused Light, Easy To Assemble, Attractive Design, Great Value

I was looking for something that would give a lot of light looking modern. This was perfect.

Pros: Attractive Design, Good Lighting Area

Best Uses: Ambiance, Works well with dimmer, Primary Light Source

This is the second project that I have used this fixture on. Each time the client was more than satisfied with appearance and quality. I am sure I will use it again.

Pros: Good Lighting Area, Attractive Design, Easy to Change Bulb, Easy To Install

Best Uses: Hall Lighting, Decoration, Ambiance

It was a good buy. It has the perfect size, gives a lot of light and looks modern and simple.
It's a good value for the money.

Pros: Good size

Love these lights. Look modern in our bathroom.

Pros: Easy To Assemble, Great Value, Attractive Design

Good design and use in our living room. I wanted some general lighting and it was hard to find a spot. I removed an existing wall scone and replaced it with this. It serves the purpose well. I am wondering what kind of energy efficient bulb I can use rather than the 2 bulbs of 75 Watts I have installed.

Pros: Attractive Design, Easy to Change Bulb, Good Lighting Area

Cons: Difficult to Clean

Best Uses: Ambiance, Primary Light Source

good quality. heavy gauge metal. easy to install

Pros: Attractive Design, Easy To Assemble

had to open three boxes to find one that the brushed metal was without flaws ...

Pros: Adjustable, Easy To Assemble, Great Value, Diffused Light, Attractive Design

Cons: Workmanship

Modern, clean, design. Great price!

Pros: Attractive Design

Arrived quickly

Pros: Easy To Assemble, Diffused Light, Attractive Design

We use it in our hallway

We searched multiple sites and tried a few others out, but this one was the ticket. The quality is great and the look is fantastic! Far superior to the big box hardware fixtures.

Well engineered and built with quality materials. A fine addition to our bathroom lighting.

Easy to install. Looks great!

These are just perfect in my newly remodeled bathroom. They are extremely well made and stylish. I wanted something other than the usual over the mirror lights. I love them. I also love that Lamps Plus always recommends the correct bulbs when you place an order. Make sure you order the recommended bulbs. Makes life easier.

They turned out great. Exactly what we needed.

After more than seven years of dealing with sconces in the master bathroom that I never really liked, I finally decided to move up to something better. The Minka Lavery sconces have a modern elegance that avoids being edgy, so they seem to be good choices to replace the old ones.

Quick preview of the summary: The sconces are 5-stars, the instructions are negative 2 stars.

The sconces arrived well-packed, with plenty of styrofoam and bubble wrap. The sconces are solid and moderately heavy. They appear well-made. The glass pieces were packed separately from the rest of the unit and had no apparent damage of flaws. I just wish that the tape would have been easier to peel off, but that really wasn't too bad.

The sconces come with all of the material needed to install them. That includes a backing plate (that fits over a round electrical box), screws, and 3 wire nuts.

Do note, however, that this is not for a complete novice. I'm a pretty good amateur electrician; this proved very helpful for this install as the instructions are some of the worst I've ever seen. Honestly, I have no idea how a manufacturer gets away with instructions like this. There is a tiny and completely unreadable diagram that supposedly shows you how the items fit together. And the text for the instructions is highly confusing and vague.

The good news is that there is only a finite number of parts, and with some common sense and experience you can find which holes match the spacing that is needed. And the mounting plate has a large hole in the center that facilitates making the wire connections and then stuffing them back into the box; some mounting plates are not as easy to do this, and it takes some effort to get the wires back in. So at least one aspect of the install was nice.

Once you've figured out the installation basics, it mounted fairly easily. The spacing of the mounting studs required wasn't a perfect match with the mounting plate, but it was close enough to be able to get both mounting studs through the holes. A little better precision here would have facilitated the installation, but again this was within the acceptable range to make it work.

I put four 60W soft-white light bulbs in the sconces. (Each sconce has two bulb sockets. One points up, the other down.) The glass enclosure then inserts from the top fits behind the two metal rings, and rests on two stops at the bottom.

The glass has a nice translucent diffusing property. The combination of the soft white bulbs and the glass piece produces a nice warm light suitable for a bathroom. I used the typically-shaped light bulbs, and do see a dark spot in the middle since the bulbs are both pointed away from the center. Nonetheless, the illumination is nice and this doesn't really detract from it.

In summary, this is a well-made and attractive sconce, but its installation is not for a beginner. Get someone to install it who has some experience. You might as well throw out the instructions as at best they don't enhance your ability to install them. At worst, they provide unnecessary confusion.