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Maya Glantz

The Pipes on My Garden Walls Were an Eyesore — Until I Found These Clever and Stylish Ways to Disguise Them

An urban courtyard with various potted plants, brick walls and an antique style table and chairs.

It's always a shame when something essential to the functionality of your home is, for lack of a better word, ugly. But, while we don't have a solution for every ugly necessity, we have figured out a couple of ways to hide away one of the most offensive: outdoor pipes.

Can anything destroy the aesthetic of your garden faster than a bulky, plastic drainpipe? We get it, without them, our house would be a whole lot less enjoyable, what with no running water and all, but that doesn't mean we don't want to hide this outdoor eyesore. This may all sound rather superficial to you, but I, for one, gain joy from sitting in beautiful spaces, and if all I need to get my garden there is a simple drainpipe trellis cover-up, then sign me up.

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