Metamorphosis Monday & My First Mis-Treatment

I'm hooking up with Metamorphosis Monday hosted by Susan at Between Naps On The Porch and I have to give a shout-out to Nester over at Nesting Place, who talks about window mis-treatments on her blog, and has pictures and how-to's.

When our powder room went from this:

To this:

I had to take down my pink and green plaid, box pleated valance. I was very sad because I had purchased that from Calico Corners about 15 years ago as something that was made and never picked up {got a fantastic price on a custom valance}.

I got this picture from Home Goods to put in our very small powder room. I loved the colors and it went well with the espresso colored cabinet and mirror, as well as the Blond Wood paint.

And I realized . . . . the fabric I am putting on the chairs I'm redoing has these exact colors in it! I knew, though, that if I put holes in the wall to mount a rod and sewed drapes I would not only never hear the end of it from hubby {because he spackled the original holes before we painted}, but it would take me at least two hours to sew a valance. So, I went the mis-treatment route!



I found the trim in my stash and it was the exact width of the fabric. The colors in the tassel trim were not what I would have picked if I was purchasing it to do this, but it was close enough for me. This is becoming more meant to be as I go along! I wanted to see if I could make a no-sew valance. {I like to challenge myself every once in awhile}.

I fired up the glue gun and I hot glued the selvage edges and the top edge. I then hot glued the trim to the bottom edge, which hid the raw edge. I had upholstery tacks that I was using as push pins on a bulletin board and I grabbed them.



I put the two ends up first {after finding the middle of the fabric and the middle of the window ~ I just eyeballed it}. I then took one side and pleated it in {I think you can see it in the picture above}, then did the same thing on the other side. I pushed the upholstery pins into the wall as close to the top molding as possible.

And, done!

I still want to tack the pleated areas down, and I could do that with a simple needle and thread. But, I want the whole thing to be a no-sew, so I will most likely pin it either with straight pins or safety pins.

This is as close as I could get to show the picture and the valance near each other {it really is a small powder room}.

I have to tell you that I love it! If it wasn't for reading about Nester's window mis-treatments I don't know that I would have done this. So, thank you Nester!

Also linked up with A Soft Place to Land's DIY Day.

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