How to Make a Window Valance

THAD: A valance is a simple upgrade you can do to cover up this track, because you can wrap it with some decorative fabric and really punch some color into the room. What we need to do first is take these measurements and find out just how far we need to come off of the wall to be able to return down and give us that nice finished face.

Our measurements will be 5 inches; our next measurement that we want is on this track, fifty-two and three-quarters. Okay, forty-eight and five-eighths...So let's start by making a five-inch mark here and a five-inch mark down at the bottom, and then we're gonna use this snap line to establish a straight line for you to cut down the whole length of this plywood.

GLENN: Alright.

THAD: You pull it really tight so there's no slack in the line, and then somewhere in the middle you pull up on the line, straight up, release it and it snaps on the wood. You got a nice established line on there...Now we'll follow that line with a skill saw.

GLENN: Safety first.

THAD: You're ready to rock and roll. (GLENN begins to saw.) Nicely done, all right! Let's take these long pieces and cut two shorter pieces out of these...Let it rip!

GLENN: Here you go, sir.

THAD: Nicely done.

GLENN: Thank you...Alright, we're ready to roll.

THAD: So our four-inch piece stacks on top of the five-inch piece because this is our finished top, right here. You'll throw a little bead of glue on there, and we'll stack this four-inch piece on top of it. So we're gonna screw in using inch-and-a-half screws...'Kay one last one, nice!...So these two pieces will fit together like that. Now that these two pieces are put together, let's put caps on the end of them, and then we'll take them inside and actually put them up on the wall.

Now we see how those two come together and lap on each other and make that nice joint there...So let's secure them to the wall using these L-brackets, right here. One screw goes into the wall, and one screw goes down into the valance.

That's a super easy way of installing something over the face of this track and giving it that fresh look. Very easy to do, and now we have a lot of options for finishing the face of this valance. We can paint it, we can play around with the other colors in the room to really accent it and play off of them, or we can cover it with fabric.

So, this is a very easy way to do a window treatment. Nice work!

GLENN: Looks good, nice, nice finish right there.

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