How to dress up a boring window with a shabby animal print valiance. It’s easy, inexpensive, and a great way to use up some of scrap fabric.
I fell in love with these shabby Valiance’s ever since I seen them on Pinterest. It has been on my list of things to make for a very long time, but just never got around to making it.
My first thought was to make one for my craft room, then I thought why not make the animal print Valiance for the guest bath. It will match the shower curtain I made and the other animal print decor.
Wasn’t sure the hubby would like it though, and to my surprise he did. We even talked about me making a couple shabby Valiance’s for the kitchen window (of course no animal print).
I bought fabric remnants at Walmart for $1.00 each.
1. First cut all your animal print fabric into 18″ strips approximately 1″ wide.
2. Cut all your solid fabric into 18″ strips approximately 1/2″ wide.
3. Now tie your fabric strips onto your tension rod, try to center your strips so that they hang evenly.
4. Keep tying the fabric strips in a some what orderly fashion until you have your tension rod full of your animal print fabric strips.
5. Once I had my tension rod full I decided to add five 18″ strips of shimmery gold ribbon just to give it a little more color.
6. Try to space the ribbon out evenly, and just tie on the rod.
7. Now just go back and trim any extra long strips hanging down, just to even it up some. Doesn’t have to be perfect.
8. Hand it in your window and that’s it for your shabby animal print valiance. Wasn’t that easy? I love how it turned out.
How do you like it?
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Materials Needed For Shabby Animal Print Valiance
2 different Animal print fabrics
2 solid colored fabric
Scissors
Tape measure
Tension rod
Shimmery gold ribbon
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Hey Linda…what a clever idea. I’d love to see it with your shower curtain. Animal prints are tricky things…you can’t just use them anywhere, but they work perfect on your bathroom valance. Thanks for the ideas.
Hugs, LYnn
Thanks Lynn! I thought that I had posted a picture with my shower curtain, but I guess I left it out because there wasn’t enough light to get a good picture. I will try it again.
Linda, how amazing! I love the way it looks and to think it was this simple. The patterns that you chose look great together and the gold ribbon really makes each print stand out. I bet it looks great in your guest bath.
This would be really cute in a child’s bedroom too! Think of all the cute pinks and lavenders in a girls room, or denim in a boys room!
Great project. Little cost, little time. My favorite!!!
Thanks Nikki! It was really easy and you can use scrap fabric or pick up some remnants at Walmart. This would be adorable in a little girls room. Can’t wait till my granddaughters come for a visit and see it. They will probably want one.
Linda. Great minds think alike. Not only do we think alike but we also uploaded these projects on the same day. Talk about coincidence. Needless to say, I love your valance and the prints you chose are fierce.
LOL, I didn’t not know we actually uploaded them the very same day. How funny! Great minds do think alike. I love your shabby curtain as well. Since my daughter and family have been here, and we have stayed up later the last couple nights instead of in bed before the chickens I have noticed that the sun coming through our kitchen window in the late evening is binding. So I may just have to make be a shabby curtain for that window.