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Valences: ideas wanted

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Steve Huber:
Kieth,
If your front cabinets over the windshield are like mine, the bottom of the cabinets is fairly thick. Seems that you could build a wood box valance and either cover it with a matching fabric or make the front finished alder to match the existing wood work. The box valance would attach to the cabinet bottom using angle brackets.
Steve

John Maguire:
I still as yet have to do the bedroom ones and after seeing the contrasting fabric in your upgrade Steve I am going to do something similar but with wood side and bottom as my fabrics are pretty far gone. I love that contrast...looks wonderful.

Steve Huber:
THANKS John, I'll pass it on the the boss and chief decorator. (As you probably noticed in the light bar thread, my color recognition is questionable).... :)
Steve

Keith Oliver:
Gerald:
The current valences are ok, but the legs are not deep enough, so have to be made to attach flush rather than inside the valences.  These are just plywood with some faux suede on them, so replacing with all wood is the better way to go.  besides, the one over the sink is wood already, so I have an idea what they will look like.  
I like the look of the Monaco Dynasty valences, like this 07 Dynasty, or maybe not quite as fancy.  Easy to make and the design will allow me fit the new MCD blinds.
My "before" interior is the second picture.

Steve:
I pulled the naugahyde panels above the windshield to see what is behind them.  the vertical one is screwed to aluminum framing, and removing it gives access to lots of stuff that is up there.  The horizontal one is screwed to an Aspenite panel, and drops to the limit of the defroster pipes.  There is no reason I can't replace the vertical panel with one that is deep enough to act as a valence.  The hard part will be finding naugahyde to match, or maybe I'll end up with wood, all the way up.  decisions, decisions.

Edward Buker:
I added an MCD single power shade to my front windshield and made a wood trim piece (in my case cherry) to act as a valence. The whole MCD shade thing is a bit of a tricky modification for a windshield. The more vertical the windshield and curtain drop, the better it will work. I also used a little SC Johnson paste wax on my A pillar wood trim that i added to make the curtain work smoothly. A little patience on this project....

Later Ed

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