These work as thermal shade and as black-out curtains while really loooking like normal fabric roman shades on the side facing the room.  They're lined with a linen-looking fabric on the inside-facing side.  It's lined with a sheer white polyester on the side that faces the windows, so it looks good from outside of the house, too.  The mechanism is smooth and it works well.  We've had it for about six months.  So the shade itself is a five star item, especially given the price.  I knocked off two stars because it is extremely difficult to hang and one (of two) I ordered fell off the wall.  So hard to hang, and the hanging mechanism is not very strong.  I had such a hard time installing it that I called my husband to help, and he agreed that that the mechanism was nutty and very difficult to work with.  He told me that next time it falls (an event he considered likely), he'll replace the mechanism.