It’s very frustrating to have completed a beautiful design in your home but to still have the frustration of two air conditioning units in view, both indoors and outdoors. The chances are, you’ll want to hide them away.

Though there are certain things your air conditioning contractor can do to help you to put the units in subtle places, there are also things you can do yourself, and we're covering some tips to hide both indoor and outdoor units in this guide.

How To Hide An Air Conditioner Unit Inside

Your inside unit can be especially frustrating if it has an impact on your interior design. So what are some methods to hide the air conditioning unit in your house?

Build a Cabinet Around Your AC

If you’ve got the skills, you can build a cabinet around the unit, you just need to make sure that air can still flow through. The cabinet may be designed to just look like a part of the rest of your home furniture.

Functional Air Conditioner Box Covers

You can also find air conditioner box covers that are available to purchase, and these are a good way to avoid having such an ugly piece of equipment on display. The covers may be made out of wood so they have less of an industrial feel to them.

Convert Your AC Into a Piece of Art

If you’re artistic, you can even use the wood in front of the AC unit to create a unique piece of art and turn it into a feature, rather than something that is particularly ugly. If you’re the sort of person who likes to paint and is good at DIY, this makes for a brilliant weekend project.

Conceal it Behind Curtains

Curtains can be an inexpensive and simple way to hide the AC unit away. You can mark off an area of your room and hide it with curtains, so this is where your AC unit and other ugly necessities can go. The curtains mean that air can still flow but it isn’t obvious that there’s an air conditioner there.

Ways to Hide Window Air Conditioner Outside

The outside unit may need to be hidden away, too, to ensure that your air conditioner is functioning but also not causing any disruption.

Hide It Behind the Bushes

If you have bushes in your yard, these can be the perfect place to put your outdoor unit, as long as the air can flow out of it then there is no problem, and though the unusual humming behind the bush can arouse suspicion, it hides it from view.

Create a Backyard Lounge

A great way to hide your outdoor unit is to create a backyard lounge, which gives you the chance to install more cabinets and furniture in the yard and use this to hide the unit away. The lounge may even be marked out with walls, and behind these walls is a great place to hide your outdoor AC unit. Some of the units can get pretty big, so make sure there is space.

Grow Vines Around Outdoor AC Unit

Vines grow quickly and they can give a fantastic look to your backyard. Though you need to be careful with this one, they can be a good way to disguise the unit.

The air conditioner still needs to be accessible, for instance, if anything goes wrong with it. A good way around this is to use a trellis, on which you can allow climbing plants and vines to grow. This will disguise the fact that you have an AC unit, but it also means that if you need to access it, you won’t be obstructed.

Create a Cement Wall

Cement walls are another solution for hiding your unit, they give you the chance to block the unit off and though you lose a bit of your garden space you’ll no longer have the ugly look of an outdoor air conditioning unit.

Cement walls need to leave the unit accessible, so a gate or door is needed and don’t totally blockade the unit in there as this can cause big problems with both function and maintenance.