Your Outdoor Living Area: The Perfect Spot for a Wall Fountain

Your Outdoor Living Area: The Perfect Spot for a Wall Fountain You can improve your exterior area by including a wall fountain or an outdoor garden water feature to your property or gardening project. Many current designers and artisans have been influenced by historical fountains and water features. You can also strengthen the link to the past by adding one of these to your home's interior design.Outdoor Living Area: Perfect Spot Wall Fountain 24674567971401338126.jpg The benefit of having a garden fountain goes beyond its beauty as it also attracts birds and other wildlife, in addition to harmonizing the ecosystem with the water and moisture it releases into the atmosphere. For example, pesky flying insects are usually deterred by the birds drawn to the fountain or birdbath.

Putting in a wall fountain is your best solution for a little backyard because a spouting or cascading fountain occupies too much space. You can choose to install a stand-alone fountain with a flat back and an attached basin propped against a fence or wall in your backyard, or a wall-mounted type which is self-contained and suspended from a wall. Both a fountain mask located on the existing wall as well as a basin located at the bottom to collect the water are equired if you wish to include a fountain. It is best not to undertake this job on your own as professional plumbers and masons are best suited to do this type of work.

Modern Garden Decoration: Fountains and their Roots

Modern Garden Decoration: Fountains and their Roots The incredible construction of a fountain allows it to provide clean water or shoot water high into air for dramatic effect and it can also serve as an excellent design feature to enhance your home.

Originally, fountains only served a practical purpose. Water fountains were connected to a spring or aqueduct to provide drinkable water as well as bathing water for cities, townships and villages. Used until the nineteenth 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 the power of gravity.Modern Garden Decoration: Fountains Roots 3828194901758.jpg Fountains were an optimal source of water, and also served to decorate living areas and celebrate the artist. Bronze or stone masks of animals and heroes were frequently seen on Roman fountains. During the Middle Ages, Muslim and Moorish garden planners included fountains to create mini variations of the gardens of paradise. King Louis XIV of France wanted to demonstrate his superiority over nature by including fountains in the Gardens of Versailles. The Romans of the 17th and 18th centuries manufactured baroque decorative fountains to glorify the Popes who commissioned them as well as to mark the spot where the restored Roman aqueducts entered the city.

Urban fountains built at the end of the nineteenth served only as decorative and celebratory adornments since indoor plumbing provided the essential drinking water. Fountains using mechanical pumps instead of gravity allowed fountains to deliver recycled water into living spaces as well as create unique water effects.

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

Fountain Builders Through History Water feature designers were multi-talented people from the 16th to the later part of the 18th century, often working as architects, sculptors, artists, engineers and cultivated scholars all in one person.... read more


The Hellenic Republic: Cultural Statuary Nearly all sculptors were paid by the temples to adorn the elaborate pillars and archways with renderings of the gods until the time period came to a close and many Greeks began to think of their religion as superstitious rather than sacred, when it became more typical for sculptors to represent ordinary men and women as well.... read more


The Minoan Society: Outdoor Fountains Various kinds of conduits have been unveiled through archaeological digs on the isle of Crete, the cradle of Minoan civilization.They not only helped with the water supply, they eliminated rainwater and wastewater as well.... read more


Large Outdoor Fountains: The Perfect Decor Accessory to Find Peace Water adds tranquility to your garden environment.The sounds of a fountain are perfect to drown out the noise in your neighborhood or in the city where you reside.... read more


Gian Bernini's Water Features There are numerous famous water fountains in the city center of Rome.Nearly all of them were designed, architected and built by one of the greatest sculptors and artists of the 17th century, Gian Lorenzo Bernini.... read more


Bernini: The Genius Behind Italy's Greatest Fountains Bernini's earliest water fountain, named Barcaccia, is a breath taking work of art found at the bottom of the Trinita dei Monti in Piaza di Spagna.To this day, you will find Roman residents and vacation goers occupying this space to revel in chit chatter and being among other people.... read more


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