Redi Shade No Tools Original Arch Light Filtering Pleated Fabric Shade White, 72" W x 36" H

Love this shade!! It was easy to cut and install and looks so good in my window. The adhesive sticks well and there isn’t any tipping forward of the top portion. Helps keep the room cooler from the sun and now I won’t worry about my furniture and carpet fading where it would get direct sun every day. I wish I would have purchased this sooner.

This shade works perfect for my window. Keeps the sun out from the west. Looks very nice.

This was easy to install. Looks good, but I don’t know about durability. It’s made of a fibered sort of paper that is not going to be something that you can wash. Maybe run a vacuum attachment over it now and then. It also attaches to the window frame with double sided tape, so wash your window first because once installed, it’s not coming down, although I suppose one could buy more double sided tape and redo that. I had wanted to do a half round curtain rod with fabric, but couldn’t find one to fit…and this one solves the problem quickly and easily for now.

Extremely happy with this purchase. The shade looks nice, adds privacy and tones down direct sunlight without leaving the room dark. Most importantly, installation was easy. The rest of my review compares installation of this shade to a much more expensive department store shade.This shade replaces two failed shades from a mall anchor store that cost 75 bucks a pop and look identical. The expensive shades disintegrated in the sun after only 15 months. Stupidly, I bought a second identical one to replace the first. Again, after just over a year the shades began to tear leaving my window looking like someone had cut a pie slice out of the covering.Admittedly, when I opened this package the shade seemed chintzy. Instead of a plastic strut across the bottom edge, I found flimsy cardboard with two sided tape. It took less than a minute to cut the shade to size with a utility knife. I had to use a band saw on the more expensive shades, so plus one for the Redi Shade.Installation is where this shade won me over. The expensive shades couldn't support their own weight which meant "fat guy on a ladder" yoga poses while I attempted to both hold the shade and drill and mount the support tabs. The Redi Shade fabric is light and the length is perfect to "spring" the shade into place under tension. The more expensive shades that I bought were inexplicably long which meant almost no tension, and as a result, they required plastic tabs for support.The flimsy cardboard that I mentioned is partly responsible for easy installation. The shade with the plastic channels had to be snapped into place prior to sticking the base to the sill, which was difficult to do while holding the shade up. The plastic center mount has no channels so you only have to drop the cardboard end into place and press firmly.Tip: Find the center of your window opening and make a small pencil mark. Center the plastic piece on the mark. To install, peel the double sided tape paper where the two ends meet in the center. You can peel the paper back while pressing the shade into place.I can't speak for longevity. The sun could certainly destroy this fabric like it did on my other shades, but ease of trimming and installation have won me over. Couldn't be happier.

I have to say, for the money, it's very much worth it. I had a slightly imperfect arch, so it's not as easy as a perfect arch (Width = 2 x Height), but it was still easy enough. Instead of the tracing and "trimming" with scissors the instructions called for, I just cut the end into a wedge shape, as I need to take some off the bottom ends on the Left and Right. Maybe hard to understand, but it worked out great, and while not as darkening as I thought it would be, it's a huge difference. Maybe we can finally sleep past sunrise!

East to install and cut. Blocks light. 3 stars because advertising as fabric but mine is shiny plastic!!! Not happy about that but in 90 temps direct sun was desperate to block window so keeping it up for time being. Also our arch window is 70” wide -so top heavy -and was falling into room -so had to use double side tape to keep it up. Maybe allowing extra 1/2” so touches frame of window may have been better. Not a cellular shade so very little structure to this shade but it does the job.

I bought this to replace a presumably, 20-year-old version of a similar shade. The old one was dingy and dusty, and we wanted one that would block more light and insulate the window because the window it’s in gets a ton of light during the day and the room gets very warm. And frankly we need all of our windows replaced as well.So this shade is sort of reflective on one side, so we have that facing outward to repel sun rays and it seems to be working really well especially in tandem with the blackout curtain. We got to keep the room nice and cool. It was pretty easy to install. I was able to cut it to size just with the box cutter very easily.Our original purchase did not come with the little plastic thingy that you need in the center of the arch. It just was not included in the box. But after speaking with Amazon customer support, they just sent me a second one so it all worked out. I really only needed the little plastic piece but they were unable to send me just the little plastic piece so now I have a back up shade. We tried to use the existing plastic piece that we had from the old shade, but it was too thin. But it all worked out!