Blades of (not so) steel

This ceiling fan came with the house, in the master bedroom. It not only hums in a volume that is neither bothersome nor subtle, but had this fucked up wicker-honeycomb pattern on the fan blades. Because it was so loud and ugly, I just wanted to get rid of it and replace it. We found replacement blades at the store and thought maybe cleaning it up, spraying some WD-40 into the moving parts might help. I replaced the fan blades, which was a tedious task to say the least. It looked like this before:

And now it at least looks a little better. I'm assuming we'll get used to the sound.