my 1st valance
So my learning-to-sew adventures continue and it’s going pretty well. I made only 1 trip to a fabric store and got 2 different fabrics on sale. For those few metres and 4 buttons, it was less than $20. And out of it, I’ll be able to make 3 valances, give a piece to Paul to construct some nifty Roman blinds for our bathroom AND have enough left over for a pillow or 2.
The fabric I chose for the kitchen valance is just amazing, I love it. Cream with streaks of metallic gold!
I kept the valance pretty simple – just a rod pocket about 2 inches down. After the pocket, there was about 15″ of fabric to make up the valance. The kitchen window was 51″ wide, and the width of the valance was more than that to give it some volume.
We’d been very lucky to find custom wood blinds in our local Home Depot that were almost exactly the size of our window! It’s possible someone in the area also had a Minto home that was the same model or a different model that had a similar window. So we were able to get the blinds (a dark brown with 2″ slats) for a third of the price!
All in all, the look came together really nicely…
And all these window treatments for the back rooms of the house are being completed just in time as sadly, we’ve lost the wonderful trees and nature we had back there! 
The area has been cleared to make room for a future phase of new houses, so we are enjoying the view a lot less. Oh well, we knew it would happen eventually, and it was nice to have the extra expanse connected to our lot while it lasted.
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