When you go shopping for bay window valances, you need to keep in mind the primary activity that takes place within the room. Whatever that activity is, the window treatment that you decide on shouldn’t divert attention away from the room’s function. A suitable bay window valance should facilitate the performance of that activity.
Suppose for example, that there was a bay-shaped window at a kitchen table. Suppose too that residents of the home liked to watch the birds that came to the bird feeder, the feeder that was just outside of the large window. Any valance on that bay kitchen window should not try to compete with viewing the birds for attention. It should highlight the experience.
This goes with any event that takes place around the bay window area. You want the functionality of the room to be accentuated by the valances for your bay window. One way to make sure the curtains aren’t overbearing is to match them to the color of the wall. You could also make them contrast slightly, again making sure not to draw too much attention to them.
Valances for bay window areas can influence the appeal of a sleeping, dining or living area. Sometimes they can help contribute to keeping that area at a suitable temperature. That would certainly be the case, if a bay shaped window faced west.
When a large window “looks” west, then the hot afternoon sun streams through that window. In the summer that hot sun could make the area with the large bay shaped window a bit uncomfortable. A suitable valance might mitigate that effect.
A well chosen valance might limit the amount of sunlight that gets into the room in the late hours of the afternoon. Perhaps the homeowner would want to have a valance that could be removed during the winter months. Then the sun could help to heat that seasonally chilly room.
The above examples should serve as a guide for anyone who plans to go shopping for bay window valances, especially ones that are going to hang above a large, outward curving window and keep the integrity of the room intact.
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