How to Pick the Perfect Valance for Your Windows

Choosing top treatments, like custom valances for the rooms in your home, can feel like an excellent finishing touch for your window treatments. Valances add visual interest and conceal the hardware of shades or blinds.

Custom valance with sheer and lace-like embellishments on a kitchen window over the sink, overlooking greenery

At House To A Home Interiors, we can help you pick custom valances for your Hunter Douglas window treatments near Springfield, IL, with four simple steps.

1. Determine Your Budget

Before designing your custom valance, consider how much you want to spend on the top treatment. This step will allow our team to help you find ways to remain within your budget. If you have a small budget but want a lot of embellishments, we can work with you to see what makes the most significant impact.

Our talented designers can make custom valances that are as simple or decorative as you like. We want to ensure you’re happy with the finished result, which includes sticking to your budget, especially if you’re getting top treatments for several windows in your home.

2. Match Your Home’s Interior Design Style

Here are a few ways you can match your home’s interior design style with the right custom valances:

Minimalist Style: You want your custom valance to match your minimal style throughout your home, meaning clean lines without many embellishments.
Modern or Mid-Century Modern Style: This style uses straight lines and geometric shapes. Choose the top treatment, like patterned fabric, that complements it.
Scandinavian Style: Select blue, gray, or white fabrics to enhance this style’s combination of functionality and simplicity with neutral tones and natural materials.

If you’re not sure what the best fit is, we can help you decide. During the consultation, it will help if you bring in any furniture pictures, wood finishes, paint swatches, flooring samples, and artwork so we can help with color matching and interior design. Photos of the whole room are also helpful.

3. Use a Consistent Aesthetic

If you have custom valances in multiple rooms, they should have a consistent aesthetic. A consistent aesthetic means that, whether simple or ornate, the overall appearance, though not necessarily the materials, should be the same from room to room.

You can use similar colors throughout your home, even if the pattern and design aren’t the same, helping create a cohesive look.

4. Use Top Treatments to Add Depth

Layering your window treatments with drapery and custom valances adds depth, drama, and visual interest to a room. You can select a drapery fabric you like with your window treatments and add it on top, beneath the valance. This design choice adds warmth in winter with light control, privacy, and energy savings all year.

Shop Valances and Hunter Douglas Window Treatments Near Springfield, IL

At House To A Home Interiors, we can help you find your dream Hunter Douglas window treatments near Springfield, IL, complete with custom top treatments. We’ll work with you to help you create a consistent style with your valances throughout your home that incorporates your color scheme.

Request a consultation online, call us at (217) 787-9201, or visit our showroom at 3740 Wabash Avenue, Suite C, in Springfield, IL. House To A Home proudly serves our local community within 50 miles of Springfield, including Chatham, Taylorville, and Decatur, IL.