Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. bedroom with ruffled valances on the curtains - Michael Robinson/Getty Images Often found in older homes, curtain valances are ...

Kitchen valances — those mini-curtains hanging out at the tops of kitchen windows — were all the rage from the 1970s through the 1990s. The '90s versions were often rather big and ballooning (my mom, ...

If you have an older kitchen or you embrace one of the vintage kitchen designs so charming they'll never go out of style, you don't have to put up with outdated window decor which was popular in the ...

To add a bed skirt or not add a bed skirt? A bed skirt, otherwise known as a bed valance, is a detail that has often been cast aside as too traditional or 'old-fashioned' — modern bedding tends to ...