A Smaller Garden Area? You Can Own a Water Feature too!

Smaller Garden Area? Can Water Feature too! 35527366026503.jpg A Smaller Garden Area? You Can Own a Water Feature too! Since water is reflective, it has the effect of making a smaller space appear bigger than it is. Water features such as fountains profit from the reflective qualities coming from dark materials. Night time is a great time to draw attention to the lighted, colored underwater lights in your new water feature. profit from the sun’s rays by using eco-lights during the day and underwater lights during the night. Often utilized in natural therapies, they help to reduce anxiety and stress with their calming sounds.

Water just mixes into the greenery in your backyard. People will be focused on the pond, artificial river or fountain in your yard. Water features make great additions to both large gardens or little patios. The ambience can be significantly modified by placing it in the best place and using the proper accessories.

Modern Garden Decoration: Fountains and their Beginnings

Modern Garden Decoration: Fountains and their Beginnings A water fountain is an architectural piece that pours water into a basin or jets it high into the air in order to supply drinkable water, as well as for decorative purposes.Modern Garden Decoration: Fountains Beginnings 9138864933032728479.jpg

Pure functionality was the original purpose of fountains. People in cities, towns and villages received their drinking water, as well as water to bathe and wash, from aqueducts or springs in the vicinity. Used until the 19th century, in order for fountains to flow or shoot up into the air, their source of water such as reservoirs or aqueducts, had to be higher than the water fountain in order to benefit from gravity. Artists thought of fountains as wonderful additions to a living space, however, the fountains also served to supply clean water and honor the artist responsible for building it. Roman fountains often depicted images of animals or heroes made of metal or stone masks. During the Middle Ages, Muslim and Moorish garden designers included fountains in their designs to mimic the gardens of paradise. The fountains seen in the Gardens of Versailles were intended to show the power over nature held by King Louis XIV of France. The Popes of the 17th and 18th centuries were glorified with baroque style fountains made to mark the arrival points of Roman aqueducts.

Urban fountains created at the end of the 19th century served only as decorative and celebratory adornments since indoor plumbing provided the essential drinking water. Fountains using mechanical pumps instead of gravity enabled fountains to provide recycled water into living spaces as well as create unique water effects.

Decorating city parks, honoring people or events and entertaining, are some of the functions of modern-day fountains.

The Source of Modern Outdoor Garden Fountains Himself a learned man, Pope Nicholas V headed the Roman Catholic Church from 1397 till 1455 and was responsible for the translation of scores of age-old texts from their original Greek into Latin.... read more


The Hellenic Republic: Cultural Sculpture Although the majority of sculptors were paid by the temples to embellish the sophisticated columns and archways with renderings of the gods of old, as the period came to a close, it became more prevalent for sculptors to portray common people as well mainly because many of Greeks had started to think of their religion as superstitious rather than sacred.... read more


The Countless Construction Materials of Fountains Garden fountains nowadays are mostly made from metal, though you can find them in other materials too.Metals tend to create clean lines and unique sculptural accents and can fit almost any design preference or budget.... read more


The Earliest Outdoor Fountains Water fountains were originally practical in purpose, used to bring water from canals or creeks to cities and hamlets, supplying the inhabitants with fresh water to drink, wash, and cook with.... read more


The Original Water Fountains of Human History As originally conceived, water fountains were crafted to be functional, directing water from creeks or aqueducts to the citizens of cities and settlements, where the water could be used for cooking food, washing, and drinking.... read more


Where did Fountains Originate from? A water fountain is an architectural piece that pours water into a basin or jets it high into the air in order to supply drinkable water, as well as for decorative purposes.... read more