I purchased this fan for a room with low ceilings. I checked out the dimensions on the craftmade and 14" with the 2" downrod worked out great for me. The problem is it doesn't actually work with the 2" downrod. I called customer service and they tried it out, and confirmed that it does not work with the 2" rod. No wonder the instructions didn't go into detail on how to use this 2" rod. No one there had ever tried this. They sent me a 4" rod, which provides enough space to assemble so it's up now. Just a little low. On top of all of that it's a very noisy fan, and wobbles on the high speed, making it unusable, so the fan stays on medium.