How to Cover Exposed pipes

Exposed pipes in your home can cause various problems. Exposed pipes often doesn't come under the management done by architects while designing home. That's why you need to plan how to cover the exposed pipes. Here are 10 ways that you can think about while covering exposed pipes in your home. 

Make creative use of them

If you have exposed plumbing pipe in your kitchen, you can put shelf above the plumbing pipe and make them house your utensils like plates, spoons and other kitchen accessories.

Use ornamental plants above your exposed pipes

If you have anything exposed in your ceiling, be it kitchen or your bedroom, you can conceal that pipe by placing decorative plants. Decorative plants like money plant are good from vastu point of view and at the same time they will conceal the exposed pipes. Placing plants will also clear the air pollutants and increase oxygen level.

Build a cover for Exposed pipes

Cover for Exposed pipes can be built by using several materials. For example, you can knit clothes above the exposed pipes if they are located indoors. Just make sure that the color of the clothes you use for covering matches with the color of the wall and decorative items. If the exposed pipes are laid outside in the atmosphere, you can cover them with a metal covering or a cement board partition covering. They will give a new design and will look particular suitable in contemporary design of houses.

Make a Design out of the Exposed Pipes

The exposed pipe looks odd inside or outside the room. But if you use your creativity, they will form into a meaningful pattern. For example, you can make a tree if you paint your exposed pipe green and paint leaves around the vertical exposed pipes. If the pipes are horizontal, the idea will be to give them the looks of railing. For vertical pipes, you can also make a design of table around the pipe so that it looks like a place to keep your personal belongings over there.

Building cabinet around exposed Pipes

Building a cabinet around exposed pipes is one of the most useful ways to conceal the exposed pipes while utilizing the space around the sink, especially in kitchen and bathroom sinks. You can get readymade kitchen and bathroom cabinets designed for installing around the kitchen and bathroom sinks or you can hire a carpenter do that job for you. We don’t recommend you to do it as a DIY project because the project could be complex for ones who haven’t done carpentry at least once in their life.

Cover the exposed Pipes with pipe covering

Exposed pipe can be covered with pipe covering. You can design your own pipe covering if you have got some free time. You can also buy pipe covering from the market. You just have to make sure that you measure the space and find suitable pipe covering in the ecommerce sites. If feasible, you might order pipe coverings from your plumber or plumber service providing in your home like skillsewa.

Make the Exposed pipes part of your decoration

Exposed pipes can be made a part of your decoration. There are various ways to do this. For example, you can paint the exposed pipes with the same color that you are painting the wall. You can also put wallpaper around the exposed pipes if they are located in the interior side.

Conceal the Exposed Pipes under building structure

If you don’t think the design extracted by utilizing the exposed pipes in a creative way is good, then you can conceal the exposed pipes inside the structural components. Plumbing pipes are concealed inside the wall. The pipes related to the HVAC system are often hidden above the ceiling. Electrical lines are also hidden inside the ceiling plaster or false ceiling.

Placement of Baskets around the pipes

This technique is useful mostly in your bathroom. You need to place a basket for dirt in your bathroom and the best placement of baskets is under the sink. You can also use this formula in the kitchen. But kitchen sink is mostly hidden under the outer covering of kitchen cabinets.

Conclusion

There are various ways that you can use to conceal the pipes. We make the best renovation works for you and always hide the pipes for you for enhancing the looks of your home.