The Positive Benefits of Adding a Fountain in Your Living Space

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The area outside your residence can be enhanced by adding a wall or a garden fountain to your landscaping or garden project. Historical fountains and water features have sparked the interest of modern-day designers as well as fountain designers. As such, the effect of adding one of these to your home decor bridges it to past times. Among the many properties of these beautiful garden water features is the water and moisture they discharge into the air which attracts birds and other wild life as well as helps to balance the ecosystem. Flying, bothersome insects, for instance, are frightened off by the birds congregating near the fountain or birdbath.

Spouting or cascading fountains are not the best choice for a small garden since they require a great deal of 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. Be sure to include a fountain mask to an existing wall and a basin to collect the water at the bottom if you wish to add a fountain to your living area. Since the plumbing and masonry work is substantial to complete this type of job, you should employ a specialist to do it rather than try to do it alone.

Anglo-Saxon Landscapes During the Norman Conquest

Anglo-Saxon Landscapes During the Norman Conquest The arrival of the Normans in the second half of the 11th century irreparably improved The Anglo-Saxon lifestyle. The ability of the Normans surpassed the Anglo-Saxons' in architecture and farming at the time of the conquest. But the Normans had to pacify the entire territory before they could focus on home life, domestic architecture, and decoration. Castles were more fundamental constructions and often built on blustery hills, where their tenants devoted both time and space to exercising offense and defense, while monasteries were considerable stone buildings, mostly situated in the widest, most fertile hollows. Gardening, a peaceful occupation, was unfeasible in these fruitless fortifications. Berkeley Castle is possibly the most complete model in existence at present of the early Anglo-Norman style of architecture. It is said that the keep was introduced during William the Conqueror's time. As a strategy of deterring attackers from tunneling underneath the walls, an immense terrace encompasses the building. A scenic bowling green, enveloped in grass and bordered by battlements cut out of an ancient yew hedge, makes one of the terraces.