The first thing to note about these lamps is that they come in the cheapest styrofoam imaginable—in the few hours it was on my porch before I got home from work, some of the styrofoam liquified and is now permanently glued to the power cord. Furthermore, if you so much as touch the styrofoam it will half-crumble and you'll be left with styrofoam on your hands… and more styrofoam that will cling to everything else in sight. - - - - -
The lamps themselves are decent. The torchiere style seems to be a poor combination with CFL bulbs because they tend to project light out rather than up; the frosted glass, while pretty, ends up absorbing most of the light, so you really need both lamps to light a single room, and even that is imperfect and dim. However, the base of the lamps doesn't seem to be weighted evenly, so they stand crooked on carpet. It would probably be fine on hardwood or similar, but it takes some careful balancing work to get them to stand up straight on my carpet. My wife doesn't seem to mind, but the crooked lampposts drive me nuts.