This is my third time buying these curtains. I promise this week I will load pics so you can see just why I love them so much. First pair was well over a year ago, and no fading, rips, bleeding or ripping in the washing machine. Their perfect! 100 suggest them. Just remember they are darkening curtains not black out. If you don’t have blinds you will see light coming through. However it isn’t blinding or anything like that you just see the sun and light faded through them. No one can see you through them though. If you have blinds, especially good ones, you got nothing to worry about! Unless you are someone who is buying black out for a specific reason and have to have them, then consider these beautiful curtains and no. They did not pay me to say this. I just truly love them.