valances August 17, 2005, 09:48:38 pm Yahoo Message Number: 56957Joanne and Doris,Thanks for your replies to my query. Joanne - I have a newer fan-fold pull-down shade, not the normal roll-up shade. It looks as if it is stapled into the bottom of the overhead cabinets - thus the need to remove the valances. Doris: Thanks for the tip about the side-valance screws being hidden under those buttons. That thought had crossed my mind, but I hadn't tried to pry a button off yet. I think we're going to replace with something from Home Depot. They have a bunch of slick shades in lots of colors. We've been living with the one shade with the frayed cord that will allow the shade to go up only about 2/3's of the way for almost a year. Time for action!Thanks again, Ted H. '02 FL NE-12[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]