I am looking for a channel to spruce up an skewed, pitted concrete wall surrounded by the underground store, any cost successful design? I have be able to drywall around the other concrete walls,...
I have be able to drywall around the other concrete walls, but this one have a water pipe running across it and I would a short time ago like to try and variety it look nice and hoping to do it in a cost significant manner that wouldn't create my husband flip.
I guess I'll agree beside boxing in the pipe, but not so for good that it can be accessed surrounded by the event it has to be.
You could still drywall the wall, studding it first, or draw from really different, and apply a fiberglass based stucco, trowled on and painted.
You could hang down a drape, paneling, lose the distance from the wall that the pipe stands away and make a false wall, etc. etc.
Cost successful pretty much depends on your budget, and materials, and method you choose
Paint/plaster it using a brush or sponge, and receive swirling motions the size of a dinner plate all over the wall, the design will distract the eye from any imperfection. If possible, put a shelf above pipe to disguise it, or hang small picture frames from the pipe beside pretty ribbons, or thin cord/rope, depending on your current ornament style. Depending on how high or low the pipe is, if it's elevated enough suspend a curtain which will be a few inches below the pipe.
If the pipe is vertical (up and down), you can also be creative and attach another pipe about one foot or wider away from the one already near. Place rungs, as a ladder, and use them as tapered shelves for nick-knacks, CDs, record albums, etc. You can build the stepladder separately, and just place it between the two pipes. It will look as if it be purposely placed there! Boxing the pipe is an unproblematic way to secrete the pipe and you'll have a place to display picture frames, etc higher than it, like a shelf.
Box the pipe and drywall around it? Use furring strips to stand the different drywall away from the pipe? Shirr fabric and attach it to top and bottom of the wall? Fabric stretched on simple wooden frames?
You could try making a box-type enclosure around the pipe and drywall above and below it. With some imagination you could engender that box serve as a shelf for something attractive.
Another cheaper approach is to hang a gooey ceiling-to-floor curtain over the wall and its pipes. That takes more go to make it look pious but is very inexpensive.
Answers: You can paint both the wall and the pipe. There are special sealers for concrete to keep wet, mold, mildew off. Just verbs up the concrete and pipes with some sea mixed with for a time bleach and use a stiff bristled deck brush to scrub it up a bit. Then give it a morning or 2 to totally dry and paint it whatever colors you want.