How to hide a furnace pipe?

Debbie
by Debbie

The only way to get heat in our loft bedroom was to run the pipe through our son's room. Is there a way to hide it short of hiring a drywaller?

  8 answers
  • Sherri James Sherri James on Aug 19, 2018

    Build a column around it. It could be a square one so you could hang pictures or hooks for coats and such.

  • Reo33875684 Reo33875684 on Aug 19, 2018

    I have done this before. Frame it (bottom, center & top) and add drywall to it. Tape, mud, sand and paint and It will look like it was originally built that way.

  • Nancy Nichols Smith Nancy Nichols Smith on Aug 19, 2018

    A simple hide would be to use contact paper in a pattern and use a pvc pipe similarly decorated in the opposite corner to make it a design feature of the room.

  • Oberlinmom Oberlinmom on Aug 19, 2018

    I'd want to insulate it somehow. If it gets very hot you may not be able to apply anything directly to the tube. Otherwise how about splitting dowels length wise to create a faux column. I suppose you could even use pool tubes. Maybe wrap it in a heavy rope. They make thick nylon ropes that I think you could paint once it's up.


    If your son is young. I used to work in a library with a large round column in the middle of the room. I painted it with chalkboard paint so the kids could draw on it. Plus added a couple of layers of magnetic paint so we could stick things to it magnetic paint is not very strong so it may have been better to just do one.


    Last you could put shelves across (wall to wall) and just paint the pipe to match the wall color. Who can't use more storage space?

    • Debbie Debbie on Aug 19, 2018

      What great ideas. These are certainly helping me think outside of the box.

  • Catherine Deirdre Rodden Catherine Deirdre Rodden on Sep 17, 2018

    Paint to match the room. Duct Tape comes in colors and patterns now that you could decorate it

    • Debbie Debbie on Sep 17, 2018

      Thanks Catherine, I might try that. Sounds like the least costly solution.

  • Tom Stuart Tom Stuart on Sep 17, 2018

    Debbie, I just ran across your question. I helped an aunt who had a similar problem. Because this is a furnace pipe it doesn’t get too hot to touch but it is hot enough that contact paper and tape got gummy. If you don’t mind the pipe showing get some high temperature paint. It comes in many colors. This is probably the quickest. $10 for a can of spray paint. Tape newspaper to the wall behind it for about 3 feet on each side. It’s about a 15 minute job.


    It’s more trouble but still inexpensive to use pallet wood to create a frame as has been suggested. My aunt liked that idea so cut the pallet wood to make a frame out of 2x2 lumber. She had an old sheet in a beige color that I stapled to the frame work.


    Because this is your son’s room you could cover it with cork board, put a hole in the frame for a plumbing pipe for hanging space, support a shelf, or face it with the pallet wood so you can nail into it to hang things.


    Post a picture when you finish.

  • Debbie Debbie on Sep 18, 2018

    Thanks for the suggestions Tom. I'm leaning towards the paint since that's something easily done. Then if it doesn't look good, I'll go with the wood frame. I'll be sure to post pictures.

  • Judi1 Judi1 on Sep 18, 2018

    Put a tension rod from corner to corner in front of pipe and hang a flat sheet.