Sliding Glass Door Vertical Blind and Valence Redo

by Knelso18

2 Materials

$17

1 Hour

Easy

So I have searched and searched on what to do with our sliding glass door and vertical blinds. A look I have had for over 20 years in my dining room. I like the vertical blinds as we use the door a lot and it get full sun all day, so fabric shades just would not work for this area.

i decided to buy a vertical blind valence. I had thrown the original one away years ago as fabric valences were the style. But I put it up and thought, blah. So a cheap fix to give alittle color was to glue the fabric from the old valence on to a panel and slide that in. Easy simple redo but looks clean and fresh. I'll show you...

sliding glass door vertical blind and valence redo

Before with hanging fabric valence. 20 years same look!

Again before...

So went and bought valence piece from Home Depot. But added cream panel and does not match my fabric panels... and I refuse to pay $500 for custom...

again picture of cream valence...I thought what can I do?

Cut and glued on the fabric from the old valence!

Had the color I wanted and a slight pattern. Used Tacky Glue to fly faboc on plastic panel.

slide in valence once dry, about 2 hours.

Cut the end as panel was longer than needed for my door size.

Do the side panels... cut fabric and use glue...

fold sides over...

Then slide in place.

Finished look...up close.

Look from away. Looks so much better. More clean and crisp.

Up close corner piece.

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Tacky Glue

Valence piece

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