Walls and Ceilings - Columns to hide pipes, wiring, etc.

Hi,

I need to remove a couple of walls during a renovation.
This will make the rooms much bigger than they currently are.

I am looking for columns that can be installed to conceal the:
Plumbing pipes
Electrical and Phone wires
Load bearing wood beams
etc.

I have been looking at the Ploy-Classic Columns from Turncraft.
http://www.turncraft.com/products/poly-classic.html

Can you suggest anything else that is similar?

Thanks.

If you take out a load bearing wall, you have to support it with a beam under the ceiling before setting your colums or posts under *it*, just in case you haven't paid much mind to that. The larger the beams, the farther apart you can place the posts/columns...dependent of course on the weight above, and the span distance. If the span is not that great...say just 12 feet across the width of one room...an ample beam may be able to cross with no center support...only supports at the end. Clever passageways can be incorporated into the beam design to hide wires and things in that, and then you could transfer these along it to the vertical supports at the outer walls instead, if you wanted to go the route of a totally uninterupted open area, let's say.