A London shade is a tailored balloon shade, flat across the top of the treatment where pleats are added for fullness. Strings are drawn up at the pleats allowing tails to fall on each side giving this valance a soft, tailored, full look. The London shade pictured here is used as a valance since wood blinds give the privacy needed but they can also be made as a working shade to be lowered and raised as needed. This shade is mounted on a board inside the casing where the moulding acts as a frame. A perfect treatment for this small little nook.
by Susan Dorbeck