Beautiful curtain made of high quality materials
This curtain is just what I needed for a large window along the side of my front door.I do have wood slat blinds on that window, but they let a lot of light through the slats, they leave a draft from the window and also people outside at my door can see through the slats into the house even when they are closed.This curtain is the perfect solution!It is made of very nice, thick and soft material, very high quality.I think it's a little bit of a stretch to call them "thermal", but they are a couple layers thick and are much thicker than a standard drape. I think they will help with the draftiness of the room.They are not exactly light-blocking, but definitely light-filtering.And they provide a good amount of privacy, even if I had the blinds behind them wide open to let more light through.Took about 15 minutes to steam them to take the packaging wrinkles out, but the wrinkles came out very easily with the steamer.Was incredibly easy to mount them with the provided Velcro.I ended up putting the valance/molding from the blinds back on over top of them which I think adds a nice touch and should help make sure they stay up securely.They are lovely either up, or down.I did tuck a few curtain weights into the bottom hem to keep them hanging down straight and make sure they don't blow around too much when I open the front door, then just used a couple small pieces of double sided tape to seal up the ends of the hem so the weights won't come out when I put the drape up. (the weights I purchased separately).From the outside, with the wooden blinds open, these drapes behind the blinds give an appearance of nice fabric blinds in the window.My only complaint is that you can clearly see the ties hanging behind them when they are down, wish they'd thought of some way to tuck those up out of sight when not in use. They hang on the back-side of the curtains but they are clearly visible through the drapes.Fantastic product, would highly recommend for purchase!