These look fine installed and we are satisfied with them. Compared with the finials (which are fairly heavy cast pieces) the rods themselves are pretty light-weight (bordering on cheap), but they will certainly hold the weight of the drapes. We have grommet drapes on them and they tend to hang (not slide smoothly over) the plastic piece that joins the outer and inner rods. My plan is to shorten the outer rods to exactly half the installed width so that the drapes meet at the plastic piece (mid-window) and do not have to slide over it. So this is not a complaint about these specific curtain rods, as any adjustable length rod is liable to have this problem with grommet drapes. These rods would be a great choice for rod pocketed drapes where only the finals are visible, which may be the intent of their design and it's our fault for using them in an unintended application.

Pros: very cool ivy leaf finials finished on both sides
Cons: best if rods remain fabric covered