Making Some Cornices

While Kent and Justin tackled installing the screen for the patio, Sandy and I did a project of our own.  We made a couple cornices to give my windows some character.  The plan was to make and install a cornice for the master bedroom.  We went to a fabric store in Jacksonville called Calico Corners.  We have been there before and they have a wide variety of nice fabric.  I had previously stopped at Joann Fabrics and Hobby Lobby to find something that I thought would work well in the bedroom, but had no luck.  Originally we were looking for something in the blue or gray range with a pattern.  They really did not have anything that caught my eye in either of those colors.  The other option I knew I had would be white, since I had a few white items in the room as well(rocking chair, trim and white ceramic dog.)  So we headed over to the white fabric section and found this…

It’s a pure white fabric with a little textured pattern.  I love it, it is very thick and will cover well.  Also I think the indentation of the textured pattern makes it look like it has some gray hues to it.  It matched well with the swatch I brought of my paint color and the pillow sham I also brought for comparison.  So we purchased 3 yards and were on our way.  For this project Sandy had previously purchased the wood from Lowe’s.  The wood piece was 8 foot long and about 12 inches tall.  Kent cut the wood and added end caps to the ends, where it would eventually attach to the walls.  Which left us with something like this…

From there we added a layer of foam that we got from Joann Fabrics.  We attached the foam layer by pulling it tightly around the edges of the wood and stapling it in place.

Once the foam layer was in place it looked like this…

From there we added the fabric pretty much the same way as the foam.  This time we tried not to pull the fabric too tight because we didn’t want to have indentations where the staples were holding it in place(if that makes any sense.)

Once we had the whole cornice covered in fabric, we set it aside to be hung later.  For that part we would need Kent or Justin’s help and they were still hard at work.  So we decided to head back out and make one more cornice for the living room.  We went to Joann Fabrics to see if they had a fabric that might work well.  That is where I found this fabric…

Which I love! I think I love it a little more every time I look at it.  It is light tan with a darker tan in some crazy tribal-ish pattern.  So once again we got everything home and assembled this cornice the same way as the first.

Once Kent and Justin were done with the patio they helped us hang the living room cornice.  It is attached to the wall with an L bracket.

See what I mean?

And here is all assembled and hung. I love it! Makes me wanna do a little dance.

Justin and I then hung the other cornice this morning…

These pictures are horribly dark, the light from the window makes it close to impossible to get a good picture.

I am so happy with the way they turned out.  The windows were good before but now they feel finished.