Basic Ceiling Canopy

TL/DR; Nice quality canopy, heavy duty, but not 'plug and play' if you use the separate metal cord grips. Check the brackets against your ceiling boxes and make sure they fit. Also Color Cord customer service is great!

I bought the bare metal version, as well as the separate "canopy cord grip" sold by Color Cord. I primed and painted them to match my ceiling. Heavy duty metal, good quality, bare finish, no rust. Easy to prime and paint. These canopies do come with a plastic cord grip that fits in the center hole (which I didn't realize), which fits smaller diameter wire. In my case, I needed to buy the separately sold canopy cord grip (which is metal), because it is larger in size and can handle the larger diameter wire that my barn lights were wired with. I wanted a metal cord grip, and knew this ahead of time, so it was no issue.

Of my 12 cord grips, 2 were missing nuts and lock washers (which are an odd size and hard to find at the hardware store), but Color Cord sent them to me FedEx so that I had the parts I needed before my electrician came. That's pretty stellar customer service!

The first issue I ran into was that the hole in the center of the canopy is too small for the separate metal cord grips sold by Color Cord (it fits the smaller included plastic grip just fine though). The canopy had to be drilled out to 1/2" to fit the metal cord grip. I used a stepped-bit in my drill press to enlarge the hole, but be aware that this would have been difficult to do safely…