How to hide a sewer line/pipe?

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Does anyone have any ideas on how to camouflage this pipe (can't be moved)? Looking to use this room as a guest room. Got a bedroom set (massive headboard with posts) with two  30' night stands. Obstacles are window, door and closet placement issues. Ideally...the bed set  should go on the white wall (sheetrock partially showing). The nightstands and bed just fit in the 11' area, BUT that pipe sticks out and is terribly ugly! I'd like to somehow cover it and go up to the ceiling, do some kind of recessed lighting and come down on the opposite side. I don't want to BOX IT OUT. Looking for something more 'rounded' if that's even possible. Any ideas would be greatly appreciate.

Lagree Wyndham · Answer

Just a thought(without seeing the whole room) Buy a wood Column, split it in two and cover pipe with one half and place the other on the opposite wall.

Deb · Answer

Paint it and make it part of the décor. Maybe if possible put up some kind of planter hanging from it. Make it a photo gallery. Make it a lighting post of some sort. make a size appropriate screen to t in front of it and hang photos on it.

Pat · Answer

Since it looks like you are putting dry wall on your walls, how about putting thicker horizontal nailers, which would bring the drywall out farther and may cover the pipe.  If that doesn't work, I would just paint it the same color as your walls and it will probably not even be noticible.  Another suggestion would be to put a shallow bookcase over the pipe....either next to it or include the pipe in the bookcase (sort of to the inside edge of it).  A picture of the room would help us help you with the arrangement of the room.  Hope you find a solution.

Norma · Answer

Had one in a bathroom painted pipe leather brown got a clock looks like old ones use to see on post in older towns mounted it at top side :-) took plastic planter split and took out some of the bottom so would fit flush filled with floral foam then filled with flowers.  Looks just like street post and everyone thinks post mounted for decoration.njc

Debbie Westgate- Guyot-Sliwa · Answer

I like Lagree and Pat's idea's, if you build out the drywall you could then add niches!

Melissa · Answer

Originally, I was going to camouflage it by putting a mini-vanity on the left side of the pipe to the corner, BUT then I do not have the space to put the two night stands and the bed on the window wall. As luck would have it....the five foot bed posts line up 4' in front of the window instead of centering it, which would have been cool. Because of the closet and doorway....I only have the white wall (dry wall) OR the window wall to even place this bedroom set. My husband jokingly suggested removing the pipe completely, but then he said no more washer or toilet upstairs!

William · Answer

You would have to build the wall out to enclose the pipe, but make sure you do not cover the cleanout at the bottom. Another thing is the firing strips is not the proper way to build a wall. No room for insulation, no vapor barrier. Concrete wicks moisture and will transfer that to the firing strips, then to the drywall, may cause a mold problem in the future. There should be at least a 1' space between the concrete wall and finished wall to prevent any contact. A vapor barrier should be placed on the concrete wall to prevent any moisture migration, then insulation, then drywall.

Kay Smith · Answer

This looks like my studio bathroom wall before camouflaging with fabric floor to ceiling.  Starting at the top I used a staple gun and attached the material edge, and stapled again at the bottom.  It looks like wallpaper but isn't, just an inexpensive way to cover the pipes.  I put furniture in front of it.

Daniel · Answer

Two options come to mind:
1. they have Styrofoam roman columns in many home improvement centers to make it look more elegant.
2. You can faux paint it, and roughen it with heavy grit sandpaper to make it look like a the bark of a tree. Then paint branches and leaves across the ceiling, optionally using rope light in a branching pattern for overhead lighting.

Pat · Answer

Could you use just one night stand with your bed and put a floorlamp on the pipe side of your bed?  Then you could build out your drywall as suggested....build a door over the cleanout part of the pipe for sure.

Jean Myles · Answer

So let me see if I understand this correctly. You will be putting your night tables and headboard against the wall  with the pipe?

Patricia Bell · Answer

You could take 4 pieces of 1x4' wood and simply build a bot around it.  Leave one side easily accessible for problems that might arise sometime.  You could then cover then boards with sheets of cork and use that to display pictures and cards etc.

Mary · Answer

I would box it in and from the pipe to the wall make a narrow Knick knack shelf.  spacing  cam be adjusted to hang a picture in the shelving area.

Kcama · Answer

concrete tube forms (they come in lots of sizes), sliced in half - then paint, decorate, etc., at will. Maybe use a cardboard box at the base as a plinth to cover the larger base. Repeat on the other side. Or just a small slice out if you want to keep it a circle all the way around.

Pat · Answer

How about using one of your night stands in the room but in front of a window (if there is one) and you can put your lamp on it and a plant...I have done that...in fact there is one right beside me in my computer room.  We do have problems/headaches with our decorating, don't we?

Melissa · Answer

UPDATE.....the best advice and the route we think we're going to do is taking 'plywood' strips and bending them. I think that what my husband said we'll be doing. I'll update again when we get going on it. Thank you everyone for your suggestions, information and time. Greatly appreciated!

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