The Simplicity Of Tab Top Valances For Windows
If you want to add personality to your windows and provide a more playful and artistic window covering than normal curtains provide, try adding tab top valances to your windows. The name of this valance style comes from the tiny fabric tabs or loops that align the top of the valance and aid in hanging the valance from a curtain rod. These tabs are equally spaced to make your window treatments look symmetrical and more attractive. The use of tabs, instead of a single, solid channel allows your valances for windows to cover the windows themselves, while still exposing parts of your decorative curtain rod.
You can locate window valances in hundreds of color options as well as various design differences. From straight valances to bowed down or tapered valances and in any color you could dream up. In fact, if you cannot locate the color you need, you may dye the tab top window valances into your color choice.
Another option you have when looking for valances with tab tops is the exact design of the tabs. Options include tabs with Velcro closures, decorative button closures or valances made from solid lengths of material with no decorative closures. In addition, you may find tab tops in different colors than the attached valances or even find tabs you can attach to any ordinary valance using small, undetectable clips. You can even make your own tabs for window valances and curtains using sections of fabric or ribbon and scissors.
Tab top valances look great placed alone in kitchen and bathroom windows or paired with drapes and curtains for windows in bedrooms and sitting rooms. These types of window valances offer a functional style that may appear new age and fun or traditional and charming, depending on the color options you choose, as well as the overall design of the valance piece. Pair your tab top valance with a decorative curtain rod and you are sure to create a beautiful window covering for any room of your home.