a valence is a simple upgrade that you can do to cover up this track because you can wrap it with some decorative fabric and really punch some color into the room what we need to do first is take these measurements and find out just how far we need to come off of the wall to be able to return down and give us that nice finished face our measurements will be 5 inches our next measurement that we want is on this track 52 and 3/4 okay 48 and 5/8 so let's start by making a 5 inch mark here and a 5 inch mark down at the bottom and then we're gonna use this snap line to establish a straight line for you to cut down the whole length of this plywood alright pull it really tight so there's no slack in the line and then somewhere in the middle you pull up on the line straight up release it and it snaps on the wood you got a nice established line on there now we'll follow that line with the skill saw safety first you're ready to rock and roll nicely done alright let's take these long pieces and cut two shorter pieces out of these let er rip there you go sir nicely done thank you all right ready to roll so a four inch piece stacks on top of the five inch piece because this is a finished top right here you'll throw a little bead of glue on there we would stack this four inch piece on top of it so we're gonna screw in using inch and half screws one last one nice so these two pieces all fit together like that now that these two pieces are put together let's put the caps on the ends of them and then we'll take them inside and once you put them up on the wall I will see how those two come together and lap on each other and make that nice joint there so let's secure them to the wall using these L brackets right here one screw goes into the wall one school goes down into the balance that's a super easy way of installing something over the face of this track and giving it that fresh look very easy to do and now we have a lot of options for finishing the face of this valance we can paint it we can play around with the other colors in the room to really accent it and play off of them or we can cover it with fabric so this is a very easy way to do a window treatment nice work nice