PowerView® Automation
Program your window treatments so that they adjust themselves automatically, creating the perfect room ambiance morning, noon and night.
Sheer Shades
Learn more about Hunter Douglas custom window sheers, including our shadings and privacy sheers. Innovative, light-diffusing sheers. Your trusted source for window treatments.
Cellular Shades
Cellular honeycomb shades from Hunter Douglas. An energy-efficient design that traps air in distinct pockets to help keep your house cool in the summer and warm in the winter.
Roman Shades
Custom-made fabric Roman Shades by Hunter Douglas, combining the look of soft folds with the ease and convenience of a shade. Custom-crafted.
Roller Shades
The Hunter Douglas roller shades & solar screen shades collections offer excellent light control and a clean, stylish look in a range of fabrics and materials.
Woven Shades
For a warm, natural look our Hunter Douglas Woven Wood Shades collection of window treatments transforms sunlight into captivating design statements. Choose yours today.
Vertical Shades
Find the right custom vertical shades for any room in your home. Search our most popular window shades.
Wood Blinds
From controlling light to their stylish, sleek look, wood blinds have been a favorite among homeowners for decades.
Metal Blinds
Find the perfect metal blinds for any room in your home. From controlling light to their stylish, sleek look, metal blinds have been a favorite among homeowners.
Vertical Blinds
Discover Hunter Douglas customized vertical blinds featuring elegant styling and translucency in a large selection of colors, treatments, and textures. Lifetime guarantee.
Shutters
Hunter Douglas custom window shutters provide superior light control and privacy with classic styles, long-lasting finishes, and exceptional craftsmanship.
Drapery
Choose from timeless and on-trend fabrics, including lofty textures and alluring jacquards, artisanal embroideries and luminous sheers.
Light Enhancing
Enjoy the beauty of natural light and make any space more captivating, with the following light-enhancing shades.
Room Darkening
Want a darker room for better sleep or optimal movie binging? These shades and drapes help block light at the window.
Energy Efficient
Live comfortably and save energy with these shades. Designer to keep a room warm in the winter and cool in the summer.
Door Coverings
Manage natural light and add privacy with these window treatments that work well for sliding-glass and patio doors.
Sound Absorption
Create a quieter, more relaxing room with these window treatments, which help absorb sound, reducing exterior noise.
Top-Down Bottom-Up
For privacy and natural light, position shades from the top, bottom or both. These shades have this feature available.
Drapery & Valances
Add the perfect finishing touch to your windows.
Motorized Window Coverings
Enjoy the convenience of motorized window coverings.
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Our measuring and installation service will ensure an exact fit for your window coverings.
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What is a Window Valance?
Come along today with our team of window treatment experts as we explore window valances, a unique option for South Carolina homeowners looking for ways to enhance their window coverings. We’ll look at what makes a window valance a window valance, the benefits homeowners can expect when they install valances, and some of our favorite pairings between curtain valances and different window treatments from Hunter Douglas.
At Blinds & Us near Seneca and Greenville, SC, we have the experience and team of window treatment professionals to help you make the best decision for your home. We’re excited to share what a window valance is and what benefits living room valances offer your home.
What is a Window Valance vs. a Window Cornice?
A window valance is a type of window dressing comprised of fabric hung across the top of the window. You can use valances on their own or as part of a layered window fashion helping to conceal the upper hardware of certain window shades. Valances also come in a variety of styles, from simple or pleated to scalloped and cascading, and as they’re made from fabric, their look can match the room they are in.
Another similar window treatment is the cornice. It’s also placed at the top of the window for a finished look, but cornices feature hard materials like wood or fabric-wrapped wood. While cornices have a more structured style than window valances, both have the ability to coordinate with a wide variety of other window treatments.
Benefits of Valances for South Carolina Homes
- Added Dimension: Valances add depth, dimension, texture, color, and movement to window fashions, creating a more engaging element of decor that enriches the design space.
- Unifying Design: With the use of fabric elements, homeowners can tie design elements together by using coordinating textiles throughout the entire space, including valances, window shades, upholstery, and accent pieces.
- An Extra Layer of Protection: Valances provide an additional layer of protection over windows. This can help with energy efficiency by improving insulation to help block unwanted energy exchange between inside and outside through the window. It can also improve the room-darkening effect of window shades by blocking light leaks along the top of the window frame.
- Useful in Any Room: There are no hard and fast rules for using valances in a home. Instead homeowners are free to creatively use valances throughout their home to elevate interior design and grant them better environmental control.
Pairing Window Valances with Different Types of Window Shades
The design flexibility of valances means that while they can work as their own window treatments, but they can also pair with numerous types of Hunter Douglas window treatments to create enhanced window fashions. Some of our favorite pairings include living room valances and curtains, shutters, and cellular shades.
- Curtain Valances: With two fabric treatments, like curtains and valances working together, homeowners have the ability to really play with fabric and color design, making one-of-a-kind window fashions with eye-catching style. In our selection of drapery, you’ll find over 4,000 fabric options for the ultimate in customizable choice.
- Shutter Valances: When it comes to shutters and valances, we love the way the flowing fabrics in a valance soften the hard aesthetic of plantation shutters while at the same time framing the linear design. Though valances can pair with any type of Hunter Douglas shutter, we especially like the classic sophistication of pairing valances with wood shutters.
- Cellular Shade Valances: Elevate efficiency by pairing a window valance with one of the most insulating models of window coverings, cellular shades. Hunter Douglas Duette® Cellular Shades are also available with the exclusive LightLock® Blackout System, and when paired with a top, light-blocking valance, homeowners can enjoy an unparalleled room-darkening window fashion.
Window Valance near Seneca, South Carolina
Talk with our team at Blinds & Us Seneca about elevating your home’s window fashions with custom window valances. We serve those in Seneca, Greenville Salem, Sunset, Keowee Key, Walhalla, West Union, Central, Clemson, Pendleton, Liberty, Pickens, Townville, Westminster, Lake Keowee, Anderson, The Cliffs at Keowee Falls, The Cliffs at Keowee Vineyards, The Cliffs at Keowee Springs, The Cliffs at Lake Keowee, and The Reserve at Lake Keowee. Request a consultation today.