Water heating of residential buildings - the benefit that is difficult to overestimate. However, the delivery of this heat in the apartment is not always pleased with the eye. How to reorganize the heating pipe, which "rushes" into the eyes and violates the interior of the room? This question arises very often, as any designs located along the bearing walls with window openings visually reduce the size of the room and cause discomfort.
In order for the batteries and the heating pipes to please you with their appearance, they need to decorate.
For the construction standards, access to the heating pipes is needed for possible repairs, so their decoration should be simple, easy and creating the effect of accessories to the interior of the room.
Pipe decor, depending on the purpose of the rooms, is carried out in different ways.
Living rooms and bedrooms
The decor of the batteries in the living room can be performed by oil or acrylic paints.
In the living room and bedroom, the perfect decor of the pipes perform window curtains that closing not only the window opening, but also the wall. The only requirement of such a decor will be the installation of the cornice (strings) for curtains along the whole wall.
The absence of curtains, or transparent (tulle) curtains on the windows force to look for other solutions for heating pipe decor. The simplest way is the painting of pipes in the tone of the decoration of the walls. If they are still on them to repeat the elements of the wallpaper pattern, which are placed walls, then the "disappearance" of heat carriers is guaranteed.
The decor is performed by oil paints, as they are well tolerated the long exposure to heat. In addition to paint, you will need:
- Two brushes (large - for applying a tonal background and small - for drawing);
- White spirit (solvent) and fabric to remove paint drops from the floor;
- Brush and washing jars.
Selection of paints clarify in the afternoon and evening, excluding the influence of different illumination. The right choice of drawing and background is so successful that the decor of the heating pipe is merged with the wall pattern.
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Decorating the pipe can be performed with an increase in its volume by using bamboo for this. Cut the bamboo barrel along into two parts, you need to tightly connect these parts around the pipe with a thin copper wire under the color of the bamboo. It is impossible to glue such a decor, since the design should be collapsible. It must be remembered that the bamboo will perform the role of a heat screen with a small heat loss.
For the nursery, lining sewn and fur covers are suitable in the form of animals.
To unusually decorate the heating pipes with the involvement of designer fantasy, you need to present them with a tree trunk or bush. Then, by placing the branches and leaves on the pipe, you can get a birch or palm tree in the corner of the room, depending on your own taste.
It is very beautiful to decorate with flowers attached to the pipe at an altitude of about 1 m and to the ceiling. The fastening uses a thin copper wire, twine. You can not use rubber shoelaces, as they will quickly lose elasticity.
Decor heating pipes can be angular stained glass window. It looks like such a stained glass window as a narrow rectangular glass panel with a pattern framed by a thin aluminum frame or a wooden frame. The stained glass window installed in the corner of the room with illumination as a decor creates a pomp design element in design, so it should be well combined with wall decoration.
Kitchens and Bathrooms
In the kitchen or in the bathroom, close the battery can be plastic panels.
Kitchens and bathrooms have a smaller area than living rooms and bedrooms, so heating pipes are more noticeable. In the bathrooms, the role of heating pipes perform hot water pipes located at the bottom of the sink along with cold water pipes. Their appearance in small areas is desirable to decorate.
In rooms where the wet atmosphere is often happening, the pipe decor is well made by wall plastic panels, which create the imitation of the wall at the location of the pipes. In the corridors, office space and bathrooms, when installing plastic panels, provide special doors for access to cranes.
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In the same premises, to decorate heating pipes, drywall are used and manufactured a narrow decorative box based on a profile or rail. For the manufacture of the box will be needed:
- leaf plasterboard;
- Profile or rack for plasterboard;
- hacksaw;
- Spatula and putty;
- plastic plinth;
- Saws are sharp with a press washer.
The bathroom acquire moisture-resistant plasterboard.
Rectangular boxes are cut off with hacksaw along the length of heating pipes. Three plates of each box are connected using a profile or rail, and the box itself is attached to the plinth and wall by self-draws. The gaps are smeared with putty.
Decor of heating pipes with curtains, painting, bamboo does not require special skills, but only a rapid desire to decorate the rooms. Wall stained glass windows, panels and drywall box are installed by qualified specialists, as experience and ability to handle materials for decor are necessary.