Home Improvement: DIY: Simple Blind Valance Repair

During the process of having the house interior painted, my painter removed all of the blinds. When he removed the blinds, he accidentally damaged nearly every plastic clip that secured the blind valances in place.

The clips, when secured correctly and not broken, look like this…

After my painter came through, this is how 90% of the valance clips looked…

And how the windows looked without a valance in place…

The mechanics of the blinds were exposed and it didn't look very appealing.

I went to Home Depot, other home improvement and window covering stores to locate these little plastics clips. No luck. I also searched online. But the more I thought about it, I didn't like the way the clips looked anyway. It wasn't a smooth, clean finish. And when you have moulding, the idea is to have a streamlined, smooth appearance.

Then the thought occurred to me. When I was installing the blinds on the master bathroom window, I thought why not use velcro to secure the valances in place??!!

Don't ask me how the idea came to mind, because this lady's brain is totally fried. Sometimes I think up my best ideas when my mind is operating in "fry mode".

Anyway, I ran to Target and grabbed a few boxes of velcro. Scotch calls it "fasteners"….

But the contents of this box is essentially velcro…

There's a long spool of the soft, fuzzy side and a long spool of the grabber side. The back side of each is adhesive. I also chose this option over a product like Command adhesive because it's much less expensive. Since I was planning to replace all of the blind valances in the house this way, I needed a lot of adhesive/product….velcro was the better, less expensive option.

Here's how I got the job done. First I removed all of the valance clips in the house, whether broken or not…

Each valance has a long protruding center down the back…

And that center is the perfect width for a strip of velcro…

I added one side of velcro to the blind valance, using several pieces and each about 4 inches long…

Then I added the other piece on top, leaving the adhesive cover on until I was ready to press into place in each room…

Depending on the weight and length of your valance, you'll want to think about how many velcro strips you need to add as well as how long each velcro strip will be. On a window about 6 feet long in my house, I used 5-6 strips of velcro at about 4" long each. My valances aren't too heavy, but they are sturdy so I wanted to be sure the velcro made them nice and snug. Use your own judgement on this call.

Once the velcro was adhered and ready, I cleaned the front side of each valance….why not, it was a perfect time to clean them. And they were SO dirty!…