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Metro Marble Restoration is here to save the day if your old air vent covers are taking away from your beautiful new marble floors. The company makes custom floor registers in marble, ceramic, slate, porcelain and limestone. You simply send them your material, and they’ll fabricate the perfect vent cover. For a more creative approach to upgrading an ugly air vent cover, purchase some patterned sheet metal. Measure the vent openings and then carefully cut it to fit over the vent.
For a sleek look that goes with the surrounding materials, try installing mirrored finish air vent covers. A perfect fit for walls and ceilings, this option was created to replace old louvered grilles. Solely for use on walls and ceilings, this option for air vent covers offers a luxurious and modern upgrade to conventional covers. Installation is as easy as attaching the product to the wall or ceilings using self-adhesive silicone.
Use an Acrylic Fiberglass Air Vent Cover
After it’s dried, we used our pop tab trick to easily hang the new decorative vent with a small nail right above the vent opening. This is not a budget-friendly solution, but you could commission an artist to create air vent covers for you. Etsy user Jerzy Sanecki of SaneckiArt creates unique air vent covers, like this butterfly design. “I have commissioned 5 total vent covers from Jerzy and have been so very pleased with the results.
They are absolutely stunning and beautiful and have already received compliments on them in our new home,” says a reviewer. If you have an air vent in plain sight on a wall, consider turning it into a piece of artwork. Find a used interior window shutter and cut it to the appropriate size for the air vent. You should also check out these eight easy DIY faux marble projects. You may find the perfect affordable home improvement project in this collection of ideas.
DIY decorative vent cover
A huge bonus with this sheet metal is that scissors will easily cut it. I was worried I would have to use tin snips but it’s thin enough that a standard pair of scissors sliced right through! Measure out the size you’ll need from the aluminum then cut it to size. I was able to glue the aluminum directly to the backside of the wood. Recommended dry time is two hours but the nice thing is there is no expanding of the glue.
Be sure to wear leather gloves, use tin snips for cutting and file down any sharp edges. Paint the covers, if you want, fasten the metal to thin strips of wood and secure the cover with small screws. It was $18 but we only ended up using 4.5″ x 15″ so it’s worth the money if you want to do this with all your vents.
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