Weatherlawyer wrote:
On Friday, 10 June 2016 15:05:15 UTC+1, Dan S. MacAbre wrote:
We're redecorating the front room, and it's now pretty much gutted.
It's time to think about what to do with the radiator pipes; try to hide
them, or just buy new trunking and tack them to the skirting boards
again. I know the professionals manage to hide them in the wall
somehow, but I can't see how just plastering over them is going to work
when they expand. The horizontal bits, I can hide behind the new
skirtng board; but what about the bits that come down the wall in the
corner? Can they be covered over with expanding foam and then smoothed
over with filler, or (more likely) is there some really clever way that
I haven't thought of yet?

How about buying scrap copper and making decorative plates from it by beating it into something more artistic than tubing and using it to both cover the pipe and add to its radiance?

Have you tried this yourself? It sounds interesting, and I'm sure there
are lots of other interesting ways of covering it. It probably needs
someone a bit more artistic (and a bit less OCD) than myself, though. I
generally shy away from making features of walls and fitments,
preferring to go for a matt white box.

What the nitwits on here have suggested so far reminds me of them buying a dog and kicking its teeth out to stop it barking. But don't let them put you off.