Sheers & Your Cornice

Sheers can often be a great touch to your room. Using the 5” brackets you can easily mount a rod or perhaps even use a tension rod in the window frame to hang them on. Using the rod you will have the ability to move the sheers open and closed.

However, in many cases I come across the sheers will simply be stationary behind the cornice board. Save yourself the cost of the rod and tuck the sheers into the back tuck groove of your cornice! It really works well. The pictures of Sharon’s home are a great example.

Sharon’s living room as you can see has a lot of dark heavy furniture, the tables have a rotiron frame and the walls are all a light color. Even the shades on the windows are light. What the room needs is some dark on the walls and even in the cornice to balance her décor.
She also wanted the room to have a bit more of a formal look. It took several weeks to come to all the right decisions but I have to say it all turned out spectacular.

The top/bottom of the cornice is in a chocolate brown, crinkle fabric with just a bit of shine. The center fabric is a raised traditional design but also has just a bit of the same crinkled chocolate fabric throughout. Then we come to the sheers. The two cornices in the living room span 3 windows each. Between each window is just 6” of wall space.

Penney’s had some chocolate strip sheer panels on sale and good thing—we used a total of 8 on the two living room and two more on the dining room. All of the sheers are actually tucked into the back tuck of the cornice boards. The panels were each 54” wide so rather than “manually” gather them. I had a friend sew a basting stitch across about 1” down from where I needed to cut them off. Then for the side ones I gathered each down to 13” wide and the ones in the center over the 6” wall were gathered down to 9”. The result in the room was perfect!

I cannot say enough about being creative. Let your mind go and set no limits on what you think you can do. The results will compliment your room and WOW your friends. Se more homes in our Gallery of Homes.

13 Yr Search for the Perfect Window Treatment

Kingman Arizona home of the famous Route 66 and also Dan & Anne. They decided to visit the Kingman Home and Garden Show this last April. We were only 1 of several copies offering window treatment ideas, but they took a look at my samples and it was love at first site. This Arizona design was their inspiration. Several days after the show, I was out at their home to measure for cornices.

They had a slider in the transition area between the living room and the kitchen/dining area. Then also have two windows in the living room upstairs. This upstairs area turned out to be the challenge. A long slider gave entrance to a patio deck and then a large picture window over a couch, both providing a beautiful view to the golf course they live on. After measuring and much discussion it was decided to do a single cornice spanning the two windows. That made the cornice only an inch shy of 20 feet! They decided on the 12” high cornice for both areas.

Now they had to choose fabric. It was a bit of an ordeal as they picked out one that would have made a very bold statement in the room but we later found out that the pattern did not flow down the bolt as we had thought.
Anne wanted all three contours done in the same fabric with no breaks—so back to the fabric store again. They were only looking for Southwest designs and we had pretty much looked at all of them. But Connie at Alice’s Fabrics in Kingman managed to find 5 more that we had missed.
In the 5 was the one that seemed to outshine all the rest and match with their rooms perfectly. I was happy and relieved, I could get to work now. Generally speaking unless you have a semi, there is no way to transport a 20 ft cornice fully constructed, so I assembled it into the longest piece we could carry safely in our pickup truck and then two more long pieces that I would have to glue together and finish tucking in their actual room.

Dave & I arrived with the cornices at about 1:45 pm. The downstairs slider went up immediately and I set out my supports all across the living room. I even had to use their pool table at one end. It took another 2 hours to finish the 20’ cornice, but we did a lot of talking. My husband, Dave, had the brackets up so all four of us held it up while Dave moved across and pushed the cornice on to the brackets.
As I walked away into the room and turned around to look, it literally took my breath away. The colorations in the design were perfect and the room really came to life. I have not been so impressed and Dan and Alice were speechless. I got hugs from both of them.

The pictures do not do it justice but I tried to get the full effect of the room. They told me they had been searching 13 years to find the right window treatment! I love this job!


Cheers,
Jan
See me building the cornice in their living room in the Living Room Gallery:

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Attaching the Cornice Creatively


The standard Window Bonnets cornice kit comes with 5” brackets. Well over 75% use this bracket and all is well. Another 20% or so use the 3” brackets. This number seems to be growing.

If your window has verticals mounted on the outside, or a drapery rod with sheers or drapes, then the 5” bracket is a must to clear the verticals and drapes so they are not crushed behind the cornice. If there is nothing over your window or the mount of blinds or verticals is inside the window well, then you might want to consider the 3” bracket for your cornice.

But for some a more creative mount is required. Several times I have been asked about mounting at 7” and even here recently at 4”. For both my best suggestion is to mount a piece of wood to the wall that is the thickness you need then mount the bracket to the piece of wood. Just remember to cut the end cap or add to it an appropriate amount so the end cap hits the wall once the cornice is pushed on the bracket.

And then there is Anne. She lives in a nice park model on the outer edge of a golf course. She was adamant about have them mounted directly to the wall. The only thing is that just around the window was trim piece that stuck out ¼”. Just laying the cornice form on the wall would have it sitting at an angle. That’s when I took a stroll through Lowes and found a quarter inch thick by 2” wide wall board strip and some industrial strength Velcro. Yes, I said Velcro.

We came back and mounted the board above the window about 1” down from where the top of the cornice was to hit. Then we mounted one side of the Velcro to the board. The other side we used our low temp glue gun to mount it to the back of the cornice. The typical sticky back of the Velcro does not hold well to Styrofoam but using just a bit of the low temp glue and it was on to stay. Once the cornice was decorated, it was pressed to the Velcro strip and Wal…la the cornice was on the wall and level from top to down over the window edge.

Cheers,
Jan

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