Window Cornice Styles

Just like there are soft window treatments and hard window treatments, there are soft valances and hard valances. A hard valance is called a window cornice.

Fabric Cornices also known as upholstered cornices are made with fabric and padding covering a wooden cornice box. The different cornice styles are endless. Here are some of them:

• Simple Flat Cornice: This cornice is simply covered with fabric giving any window a neat yet elegant finishing touch.



• Fabric Cornice with Inserts:Similar to the flat cornice but with a center insert across the width. Some variations to this style would be:



• Solid outer edges with a larger themed print fabric as an insert.



• Shirred fabric on the outer edges and flat fabric as an insert or vice versa.



• Shaped Bottom Cornice: The lower edge of this cornice is shaped, like scallops, zig-zag, a combination of both, or any other pleasing, artistic design.



• Peek-a-boo Cornice: This is a double cornice seen on many victorian window treatments. It looks like this: The over-cornice has three scallops and the under-cornice has only two. The scallops of the under-cornice peek out where the over-cornice goes upwards.



• Fabric Decorated Cornice: A cornice can be decorated with swags, jabots, or bows. This is a very pretty soft and hard valance combo.