Fabric cornices and valances can turn a ordinary window treatment into a spectacular element in your rooms decor. The current window treatment trend today is to simply hang drapery panels on each side of the window. Although this look is both beautiful and simple to achieve it often lacks personality, by adding a custom, padded cornice you take a window from beautiful to wow! Another hidden advantage is that the cornice helps to hide the unsightly top of the functional window treatments, especially when the 2″ horizontal blinds are pulled completely up. Without the cornice helping to hide the fact, these blinds when pulled completely up stack to be about eight inches tall, not the most visually appealing. The shape of a cornices edge can be squared off, have a curved bottom edge either convex or concave, use a combination of curved and square edges, have decorative corners, be trimmed in a variety of options, in other words the shape of cornices is endless. Combine a limitless shape with a never ending fabric selection and you have a creative design element for your window treatment, a cornice that is truly extraordinary.
by Susan Dorbeck