Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Really surprised at how much I like these. I must’ve read the reviews and researched the 3 main options for room darkening curtains from Amazon twenty times! I decided against the ones from China even though they had very good reviews since they’d take 3-4 weeks to arrive. Those would have been a bit cheaper but these are just what I wanted and I have them in time! ROOM DARKENING: I read so many back to back reviews that said, “They Do!” “ They Don’t!” My head was spinning. After reading about how the fabric has black threads woven through it to give it room darkening ability, I went back and looked at my room and realized a gray-white would be fine with my blue/white/rattan colors. Now I’m so happy I didn’t get a white white that would have been too stark. This is a nice color contrast. As for the darkening ability, take a look at the pics for yourself. I included one with a flash to counter the exterior sunlight in the background & to better show the color & impact. You can see for yourself how much light they are blocking between the tied back parts & the top. When fully closed, it’s dark! FABRIC: it’s soft and hangs nicely. None of the reviews had addressed how it drapes and I was worried it would hang stiffly or just flat. The reason I’m using the tie backs is to “train” the folds into the fabric. To do it properly I should put straight pins in the bottom /hemline folds too but I haven’t gotten to that. All it took to get them to hang so nicely was a 5 minute toss in the dryer before hanging each pair. That took out most of the packaging wrinkles and gave me a clean slate to work with. Then I just followed the pleats created by the back tabs, pinched them all the way through to the hem, held them with one hand and loosely draped the tie back around them to hold them in place. Surprisingly I even like how they look like this, but after a few days or a week like that those pleats will be set—- if I had a steamer I could set them in place right away with a quick pass or two. All in all I’m happy!