disguising drain covers

Hi,
after a few months of weeding and feeding my lawn and lowering the cutting height, im very pleased with the way my first lawn is looking.
The only thing spoiling the expanse of lawn now is the sight of two drain covers, one for surface water and one for sewerage.

these are right in the middle of the lawn area and id like to somehow disguise them, hide them or somehow blend them into the lawn.

any ideas?

ive thought of turfing them over and somehow mapping, (keeping a locating drawing) just in case access is needed then the turf could be removed. is this allowed?
failing that i was thinking of perhaps covering with a false/artificial lawn section to at least try to cover the pesky things.

what can be done?

cheers
greenthumbs75

 

Put a nice potted plant on them, a bird bath or nice garden ornament. Hard to say what would look good without seeing their positions.

 

Are you allowed to paint them green?
They won't be invisible but it would reduce the impact a bit - just a thought.

 

I was going to suggest an ornament too or you could make them part of a slab path maybe, if the garden doesn't already have one.

 

I once had thus HUGE propane tank in my garden as the source of my heating. When the delivery guy came around to fill it I asked him if I could paint it pink cause it looked like a giant pig sat there. He said no.

 

Depending on the size and more importantly the depth of your inspection chambers you may be able to change the covers to something like this:



Rather expensive though

 

buy some artifical grass (astro turf) .... cut it to size and lay it ontop of the cover .... job done

 

or ... if astro turf is out of the question ... perhaps one of these?

Terrier Bone Digging Dog Garden Sculpture Statue | eBay

:WINK1:

 

Greenthumbs, go to your local GC and ask if they have, or can get, a couple of manhole planters. These are made by Sankey and are the right size and shape to hide a standard sized manhole cover.