How to Personalise Your Radiator Cover
A radiator cover is the perfect way to spruce up the space an old, unsightly radiator takes up. With so many colours and designs to choose, there’s a radiator cover for every bedroom, hallway and living room. You can even add your unique touch to a radiator cover.
There are many ways to bring a unique style to your home. Redesigns, refurbishment and adding lavish art to rooms are all great ways to breathe new life into your home, but they’re all very expensive. Personalising your radiator covers is a cost-effective way to add your style and creative tastes to your interior decor.
Follow our guide at Jack Stonehouse and learn how to style your radiator cover and, therefore, your home your way.
Table of contents
- Can you paint over a radiator cover?
- How to make your radiator cover more attractive
- Is it safe to put things on a radiator cover?
- Radiator covers at Jack Stonehouse
Can you paint over a radiator cover?
Not only can you paint over a radiator cover, but you absolutely should! At Jack Stonehouse, we stock a range of unpainted radiator covers made from MDF wood ready for you to add your original work.
Utilise this blank canvas to create the style of furniture you’ve always wanted for your home. Consider your surrounding furniture and ornaments and aim to paint something that blends seamlessly with the rest of the room. Alternatively, you could create a unique cover design that stands out as a focus piece for your space.
These unfinished covers are made with DIY specialists and enthusiasts in mind, giving you complete control over how your space and furniture are styled. They arrive flat packed so you can paint them before you assemble them, making them your unique display piece.
How to make a radiator cover more attractive
Treating yourself and your home to a cover that elevates the style and feel of your space can help you transform an entire room or hallway that was beginning to feel stale. Use your intuition and creativity to build designs that speak to your tastes.
While adding a new cover can breathe new life into an area, you can still improve your home with an existing radiator cover. This next section details a few ways to spruce up an old radiator cover to make it more attractive.
An important thing to remember before updating an old cover is to dismantle it and work on each piece individually. This prevents pieces from being awkwardly stuck together by paint or other materials.
Upcycle an old cover
Take the framework of your old radiator cover that you feel no longer represents your tastes or the feel of the room and use it as a foundation to build something new. You can replace the inserts with new patterned slates, including webbed, diamond or horizontal slat designs.
Painting your cover a fresh colour that best suits your space is a popular and effective way to upcycle your furniture. Choose something that matches the walls and other furniture, or go rogue and introduce new tones and vibrant colours to the area.
Upcycling benefits your budget, saves you time looking for an extravagant new piece of furniture, and saves you the hassle of removing your cover and installing a new one. Alongside these advantages, upcycling furniture is a great way to incorporate sustainability into your home.
Wrap it
When we mean wrap it, we don’t mean covering it in wrapping paper, but rather with a vinyl wrap. They are easy to put on, and most can be adhered to any surface you choose.. With various designs available – from wood to carbon fibre effect and more – you can get any vinyl wrap you can think of, giving you free rein over how you want your cabinet to look.
Our favourite is a wood vinyl-topped white radiator cover; just wrap the top shelf, exposing the rest of the cover for a stylish contrast.
Decorate with ornaments
If you don’t want a wholesale change in style, some simple additions can make a substantial difference to your radiator cover. Bring individual character and personality to a once mundane piece of furniture by adding framed photos, stylish flowers and elegant ornaments. Choose whatever trinkets or items with special meaning you’d like on your radiator cover to make it multi-purpose and a perfect focal point for your hallway.
If you choose flowers to sit atop your cover, ensure the colours complement each other well for a cohesive look. You can even repaint the cover to suit your flowers better. The radiator cover is your oyster!
Is it safe to put things on a radiator cover?
It is perfectly safe to place things on your radiator cover, and we absolutely recommend it! Consider size, weight, and location when placing items on your radiator cover.. Your item should fit comfortably on the cover, with no edges or ends overlapping its sides. Particularly heavy items should be avoided, but most household ornaments will be sufficiently supported.
Your cover may be in a narrow hallway or an area where pets and children frequently roam. In this case, you should be wary of how valuable or fragile the decorative items are and consider moving them elsewhere.
Some worry about items or flowers becoming overheated when sitting on a radiator cover, but this risk is minimal. Radiator covers are designed to allow the heat to travel outwards rather than upwards. Keeping your items at a reasonable temperature.
Radiator covers at Jack Stonehouse
To turn your hallway or room from drab to delightful, browse our complete range of radiator covers at Jack Stonehouse. Choose from various colours, sizes and designs to find a cover that suits your tastes and gives you enough room to add creative touches.
These stylish and practical covers spruce up your space while maintaining heat efficiency so you won’t miss out on any warmth from your radiators during the winter. Whatever you want to do with a radiator cover, get the best start possible with a cover from our collection.
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