What is the Difference between Valance Window Treatments and a Window Treatment Cornice?

What is the Difference between Valance Window Treatments and a Window Treatment Cornice?

When you just want to hang a pair of curtains, then you will need Flexible, Bendable Curtain Track Kit to hang curtains from.

If you want to have window toppers such valance window treatments or a window treatment cornice. Then you will need to fit some cornice boards first. Then fit your flexible curtain rod to the underside of this.

Curtains for Curved Bay Window Treatment

This bay window treatment is all hung from the cornice boards and curved curtain rods in the photos just above. Velcro (hook and loop) tape stapled to the leading edge of the boards sticks to the Velcro tape stapled to the back of the fabric covered cornice window treatment.

Curved bay window treatments like this one above are a little bit more work when fitting a new curtain rod or curtain track. The good news is hanging your curtains is just the same as a regular window. But it's still not very difficult to fit your own bay window rods and curtains for yourself.

Curtains for a 3 Sided bay window treatment

As above this bay window treatment is hung from timber cornice boards in this 3 Sided bay window installed with wall brackets rather than fixing to the ceiling. Very simple to install and the fabric covered window-treatment-cornice is fixed using Velcro tape. These curtains have a double pleat buckram header. Even though you don't see it under the top treatment it makes the curtains fall naturally into nice neat pleats with no effort.

How to Make Your Own Fabric Covered Curtain Rod

 In this photo above I have covered the curtain rod with a strip of the same fabric as the curtains. I used self adhesive to make this stick in place. This only works for curtain rod and curtain rail where the gliders are in a groove on the bottom or back of the curtain track. You can't have the gliders running over the fabric. This is a great way to fit a bay window treatment without a top treatment.