The Positive Benefits of installing a wall fountain in Your Living Area
The Positive Benefits of installing a wall fountain in Your Living Area
You can perfect your exterior space by including a wall fountain or an outdoor garden water feature to your property or gardening project. Modern-day designers and fountain builders alike use historical fountains and water features to shape their creations. Therefore, in order to link your home to previous times, include one these in your home decor. The water and moisture garden fountains release into the atmosphere draws birds and other creatures, and also balances the ecosystem, all of which contribute to the advantages of having one of these beautiful water features. Birds enticed by a fountain or bird bath often frighten off irritating flying pests, for instance. 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. Adding a fountain to an existing wall requires that you add a fountain mask as well as a basin at the base to collect the water. The plumbing and masonry work necessary for this type of job requires know-how, so it is best to hire a skilled person rather than go at it yourself.
Where did Garden Water Fountains Come From?
Where did Garden Water Fountains Come From?
A fountain, an amazing piece of engineering, not only supplies drinking water as it pours into a basin, it can also launch water high into the air for an extraordinary effect. Pure practicality was the original role of fountains. People in cities, towns and villages received their drinking water, as well as water to bathe and wash, from aqueducts or springs nearby. Until the late 19th, century most water fountains operated using the force of gravity to allow water to flow or jet into the air, therefore, they needed a supply of water such as a reservoir or aqueduct located higher than the fountain. Fountains were an excellent source of water, and also served to decorate living areas and memorialize the artist. The main materials used by the Romans to build their fountains were bronze or stone masks, mostly depicting animals or heroes. Muslims and Moorish landscaping designers of the Middle Ages included fountains to re-create smaller versions of the gardens of paradise. To show his prominence over nature, French King Louis XIV included fountains in the Garden of Versailles. The Popes of the 17th and 18th centuries were glorified with baroque style fountains built to mark the arrival points of Roman aqueducts.
Urban fountains made 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 enabled fountains to bring recycled water into living spaces as well as create special water effects.
Modern-day fountains function mostly as decoration for community spaces, to honor individuals or events, and enhance entertainment and recreational events.