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I have these two horrible service boxes outside the house, they are there for ducting for fibre etc,
i hate the white plastic box vibe, can anyone think of anything i could do to replace them or improve the aesthetic (was thinking of painting them black with plastidip maybe?)
https://i.imgur.com/6DLX4yE.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/wKStEkX.jpg
Get a photo of the bricks and get a vinyl that you can wrap them in and make them invisible !
Whitewash the wall
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I confess I just want to paint an eye on each of them [emoji102]
Buy yourself a decent bottle of Scotch.
Drink half.
Then they won't appear half as bad.
Honest.
Or maybe you'll see 4? :biggrin:Quote:
Originally Posted by Tifa
M
Get some frog tape, run it inline with the brickwork and then spray it the colour of the bricks. Remove the tape and fill in where the tape was a colour of the cement.
Baton over and clad the whole wall with cedar
Put a shrub in a tub in front ot them.
(The fact neither is level is affecting my OCD).
R
thats the other thing, im constantly repositioning them as they arent fitted all that well.Quote:
Originally Posted by ralphy
its part of the drive way so that wont really work,
some sort of cladding may, but they would need to be accessible in the future...
Like Rod suggests, paint them Terracotta.
Andy
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Originally Posted by Rod
Yeh .....just paint them if it bothers you.
They wouldn't bother me .......they are what they are , service hatches and no different really to the bigger gas box housed next to them
But please do straighten them up !
If it bothers you I would paint them terracotta. If it really bothers you then paint them terracotta and get artistic by painting cement mortar joints too - it will be so disguised that the utilities guy won’t even know where they are!
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Make some nice wooden doors on hinges?
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Nice wooden planter above them with trailing plants?
Two homes for midgets?
Strips of streaky bacon hanging from a curtain rail?
Vertical blinds?
Paint them brown, conker brown. In two weeks' time you won't notice them.
Move house it's the only way... next time don't let stevie wonder do the levelling.
Get rid of them and stand a garden gnome in each of the kids/openings.
The fact that they are not level with each would annoy me more than their appearance
They are part of the history of the house and they should be protected for future generations to admire.
Leave them alone.
They would bug the hell out of me too.
They would look much better in a metal powder coated panel and frame but you’d probably need to get them custom made
And I would change the colour. Terracotta or dark brown would both work but I would go for a dark grey
Just blow the wall up.
Blow the house up and leave the wall.
Glory holes for dwarfs?
And then what would you do with the service boxes?Quote:
Originally Posted by Mick P
Couldn't you just knock through, brick up your side and use the covers on the other side ?
We had the same next to our Front door (just one box), so I bought some wood effect Vinyl and wrapped the door, then used a wood effect paint to do the frame. Worked out rather well.
Move house?
Do I win?
(alternatively, I like the painting them terracotta idea).
Vinyl wrap
Was thinking prison cell look with desperate prisoners holding the bars
Or something
that would probably be my preferred option no one wants to make them though!Quote:
Originally Posted by Comet
Poo through the service boxes?
Obviously the answer is to buy an MX-5, and park it in front of them...?
Have you considered masturbation ?
Nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
today or as a solution to this?Quote:
Originally Posted by Captain Morgan
in either case the answer is always yes.
Metal frame filled with matching bricks, some kind of hook holes in case of access required, much like they do on block drives over manholes?
I used to work for RMC Mortars. The company used to provide slip panels to customers. Basically a backing material with the faces of bricks applied to it and the joints filled with the customers mortar of choice. Usually several different panels to show how the same brickwork could look so different with different mortar shades. Could you get hold of some of the same type of brick?