Sweet Salvage purchase update

After the July Sweet Salvage sale and in my subsequent “what I bought” post, I promised to show and tell you what I did with the tin molding piece I purchased.

The need for a valance arises from the fact that I can’t stand looking at the nasty metal Venetian blinds in our master bath for another minute.

The problem was – the tin piece was about 10-inches too short to cover the full width of the window. It took over a month, but I finally solved the length issue when I found two square tin ceiling tiles, one for each side of the long piece.

Since this window is in the shower/toilet/tub area of the bathroom, full coverage is needed in the morning and at night, but during the day, I like to pull up the blinds to bring in light and see out onto the backyard.

The valance hides the stacked blinds when they are fully pulled up. Perfect!

I tucked burlap ribbon, that I’d purchased at Hobby Lobby, along the top, to hide the hardware I used to hang the tin pieces from the ceiling. Hanging them from the ceiling was the only option … the walls around the window and tub are marble.

Although these sun-glared photos don’t do it justice – I’m quite pleased with how it turned out.