I don’t love it. Although indoor plumbing is wonderful who wants to look at it!

I don't object to the look of the copper. Heck, at today's copper prices your home may be a candidate for Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous. My concern is the potential for mechanical damage from vacuum cleaners, clumsy guests, etc. To safeguard against those, you could run the copper down and through the floor system to connect the two radiators.

IMO, its better looking than white, blue or red PEX.

I don't care for the look and the longer I look the more I want to get rid of them.

It’s a no for me.

It looks to me that, being on the floor, they'll be dust/debris catchers. Leaving them exposed will facilitate easier cleaning.

YMMV

What was the original reason for this expense.

Box them in or run them under the floor. That looks awful!

I don't think it looks great - or awful. The pipe will discolor though.

My parent's house was built in the early 1900's and had exposed piping, and that's how they commonly did it in those days. If that is the period look that you are trying to create, then that is what you have. As stated above, the pipes will discolor (mellow) and look more natural with time. Personally, its not to my taste, but I am not the one living with it. I'm guessing that you are having second thoughts or you wouldn't have asked for feedback.

I agree with sktn. Not attractive and will be difficult to clean as someone else mentioned. I've seen heating pipes added as a retrofit to older buildings (in Europe) and they're usually more attractively done. It would have been better running along the baseboard and off the floor. If no carpentry work is done, I'd at a minimum paint the pipes the same color as the baseboard.

Parenthetically, that's an odd window to be at nearly floor level.

Absolutely looks terrible - like a home handyman tried plumbing for the first time.

I think that's a firm NO!

Sorry if I implied that it was copper. It was not copper, but it was exposed, as the OP's piping is.

Isn't that pipe full of steam? I would think it would scar the flooring and baseboards, as it's closer to both than the radiators usually are...

baggyjim you have 3 choices, leave it, cover it or blend it. Blending the pipes would require the addition of other copper art work to mix it up and tweaking the pipes by adding even more copper to make it look great.

These are only examples of what I mean. Painting the candle holder a copper color, adding copper figures on the window sill.

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Running something up the wall a on both sides a ways like these copper vines and then wrapping the pipes to mimic a vine moving below the window for example.

I see ways to blend in the pipes would in and look fine. Another thought would be using hammered copper on the wall of some design with hangers for stuff with a copper theme.

Something like the vines can easily be made with copper wire, some thin sheet copper, scissors and a small hammer to make the leaves. Very simple art and craft project if you ask me.

I have an observation: copper is soft. It may bend and rupture from people bumping it or furniture being shoved into it. (Consider how often copper pipes to refrigerator ice makers develop pin hole leaks?). Does this piping transport HOT water? It might be a hazard to those who bump it with their feet.

Huh?