I love the look of these. They darken a bit more than I had hoped during the day, but they are great for privacy at night. Assembly was not as easy for us as I thought it would be based on many reviews. Installing the brackets was fine, but it was quite tough to snap the head rail into the brackets. I ordered five of these and all five are slightly crooked. I'm currently trying to fix the strings on the back to see if that will help, but it seems that the actual fabric is just folded in at angle about halfway down the panel. You can see in my photo that the top thee panels are perfect rectangles, and the 4th has a slight slope down on the left. All 5 shaders that I ordered are the same so when they are pushed halfway up, they look very crooked.