How Do You Design A Drapery Valance?
Drapery valances, sometimes called toppers, come in many standard types and styles. To design valances for your home and décor requires a few careful choices based on your home style, your lifestyle, your décor style, your window size and shape, your window type and any structural considerations (like molding or an odd layout) before you address the appearance of the valance. Your choice may also need to address insulation issues as some historical valance designs are intended to assist in preventing heat loss or heat gain through the window. By going step-by-step it becomes easy to answer many of these questions, allowing the answers to inform the style and design of valance that will work best for you. Designing Drapery Valances Step 1 Acquire a good window treatment book. Often these can be found at your library. Two good titles are: Window Treatments by Karla J. Nielson and Encyclopedia of Window Fashions by Charles Randall and Patricia Howard. Other titles and authors are availabl
