Generally, I think the curtains are good. They aren't blackout, but hide the light plenty well enough (they're in a room that's facing out to street with street lighting outside the window). The annoying things and the reasons I'm not giving it 5* are that one of the panels came with a stain in the middle of it and that the washing instructions are contradicting between the label and what the website says. According to the website, it says no dry cleaning, machine washable, the label says the opposite! No idea how to clean it now...