Hanging the valance without any d's (difficulty or divorce)

My husband and I managed to hang my daughters valance over the weekend without too much difficulty.  It did require me to do a little patching and painting afterwards but in the end that was a small price to pay!

I chose a rod that is black with walnut finished finials on the end.  I thought it pulled in both the black iron of the bed and the walnut finish on her chest of drawers.  The finials also mimic the detail in her bed.

Here is a view from the bedroom door:

Here is another view with more of the chair in the picture.  I love the way the pattern of the chair mixes with the toille in the valance.  I also like the way the contemporary feel of the chair is juxtaposed against the chest of drawers and toille:

My next project for her room is to make decorative pillows for her bed.  My mother was here over the weekend and we came up with this:

Centering the lady in the middle of the pillow will pull from the valance where she was also centered.  The raspberry colored fabric is the same fabric used for the piping on the valance and the dotted fabric is what I used for the lining.  I plan on making two of them.

There is a shade of purple in the trim that I love with her room:

I'll take some pictures of her bed after I have the pillows made and it is completed.

Her and I are planning on visiting some antique stores and flea markets in search of unusual finds to hang on her walls and we're also hoping to get her end table painted soon.  We're still debating on a color but we may go with a walnut brown.

This seems like such a long drawn out process to get one room finished!  If only I could get her to put down the lacrosse stick it would go much quicker!