These seem to be of good quality and they look great. They do the job well. My only concern is that we bought three and they all have different tension in the up down strings that hold each blind up. One is particularly very tight and I don't know if I should be concerned or not. I don't know if that's going to add more wear to the string and it will break later but unfortunately I'll have to find out the hard way. I'm also concerned with the strings themselves holding up to sunlight and remaining strong. I wish there was some information given about that part of the blinds. If the strings go I'm out of luck. Otherwise we are loving these. We are really hoping they last as long as they should. A simple clean look! I love the versatility of the choice of putting them up or down. It's a strange situation we're in and we love this flexibility.