Susan's Designs » Drapery & Home Decorating

A box pleated valance is a tailored style that can be formal or informal in appearance depending upon your fabric choice.  This style of valance is a soft, clean, yet a sophisticated way to complete your window.  Box pleat or kick pleat valances are a great way to top any window.  They’ve got crisp clean lines that can be played down with a solid fabric or spiced up with a patterned fabric.  Custom details can also be added to give them character.

Take this valance for example, we’ve used a fairly large pattern repeat but brought the best out of the design.  We kept it interesting by having two smaller sections on each side and one larger section in the middle.

Look closely and you’ll see a covered button in the center of a flower at each pleat and that there is a contrasting but coordinating fabric inside each pleat.  This box pleated valance is hung just inches from the ceiling, adding height to the window and covering the privacy blind,  yet still allowing the maximum amount of light into the room.

Now that same coordinating/contrast fabric was used to fabricate the pleated bedskirt.

To finish off the bedding a ready made neutral comforter makes up the bed with king sized pillow shams. A one inch flange frames the shams, highlighting the same pattern as on the box pleated valance. They are placed at the head of the bed and for a splash of color and whimsy, a rectangular toss pillow adorned with a shimmery fringe nestles there with them.