Outdoor Water Feature Ideas (Reader Suggestions)

After studying the feedback on yesterday’s put up, lots of you’ve got given me lots to consider! There have been so many nice ideas concerning my seek for the right water characteristic for our little “courtyard” space in entrance of the breakfast room home windows which can be nestled between the lounge and studio exterior partitions. Should you missed that put up, right here’s what that space appears to be like like now. That one plant has been minimize down a number of instances, and it grows again tremendous quick every time. Will probably be minimize down one final time once I get able to work on this space, and I’ll work out tips on how to preserve it from coming again.

Massive Wooden Planter Turned Into A Lily Pond Fountain

Once I first noticed the image of this wooden lily pond fountain, it regarded very small. Then I watched the video of the individual really constructing it, and I spotted that it’s really fairly massive! Since I like to construct issues out of wooden, this venture is admittedly proper up my alley.

Conventional Chicken Tub Fountain Combo

This water characteristic from Overstock is form of the very best of each worlds — a hen tub and a fountain — mixed into one water characteristic. And the colour appears fairly good for me! I really like the tiered design, and I additionally admire that it’s not too fancy. It looks like a hen tub fountain that may look proper at dwelling within the yard of my home. And naturally, I really like these cute, fats little birds sitting within the rims! I don’t know that that is precisely what I would like in my little “courtyard”, however I’ve a lot of different locations the place this might go.

Pottery Fountains

A number of individuals steered numerous forms of pottery fountains. This two-tier DIY fountain is a reasonably fundamental and straightforward design to place collectively. This one is from Lowe’s, and the instructions are very clear and present simply how simple it’s to create a fountain like this.

That is one other kind of pottery fountain, however that is rather more concerned and requires digging a big gap within the floor to sink a big reservoir that holds the water that will get recirculated by means of the big vases. These lovely darkish blue pottery fountains are from Boulder Fountain, and there’s a video displaying these in motion right here.

Retailer-Purchased, Self-Contained Fountains

A number of individuals supplied hyperlinks to some fairly nice store-bought, self-contained fountains. The wonderful thing about these fountains is that you just fill them with water, plug them in, and switch them on. It doesn’t get a lot simpler than that!

I really like the form of this one, and people candy little bronze coloured birds are so fairly. I additionally love the straightforward fashionable rectangle form of the fountain. I actually like the general design, however the coloration isn’t fairly proper for me. This one is from Wayfair.

I actually love the best way this one appears to be like. It’s additionally from Wayfair. The colour is rather more to my liking, and there’s a video on the web site displaying the fountain with the water turned on. It’s actually very fairly. I don’t just like the birds on this one, although. I personally don’t like faux birds which can be made to look actual, as a result of they don’t look actual. I like my faux birds to look extra sculptural (just like the bronze birds on the fountain simply above), so if I obtained this one, I’d paint the birds a strong coloration to look extra sculptural. However what I do love about one of these fountain is that the water is shallow in order that actual birds can drink and splash round in it.

Sculptural Fountains

These subsequent two are very completely different, however I’m placing them into the identical class as a result of they each look like sculptural items of artwork that additionally occur to be fountains. This primary one is a metallic lily pad fountain that stands simply over 4 ft tall. This may be so fairly tucked right into a backyard, however I do surprise if birds may use this.

I additionally put this one within the class of sculptural artwork that can also be a fountain. It’s comprised of a wine barrel hoop and copper pipe. The extra I have a look at this one, the extra I adore it. The sample of the water spray is so lovely. It’s from this Fb web page, however there’s probably not any details about it, so that you’d just about have to determine tips on how to put this collectively by your self.

Boulder Fountains and Pondless Waterfalls

Boulder fountains are typically not a favourite of mine simply because, in my humble opinion, they attempt to look pure, however they not often do look pure. I imply, there’s nothing pure about water spouting up by means of the center of a big rock. However with that stated, I’ve come throughout some that basically do attraction to me. Listed below are just a few:

I actually just like the understated design of this one. It nonetheless doesn’t look pure for water to be spouting up by means of the center of a boulder, however I like that the water spray stays fairly low to the boulder.

I additionally actually just like the look of those three stacked flat boulders and the vegetation round them. I’d need a extra pure look with the encircling rocks, although. Perhaps a coloration apart from grey? Perhaps a extra pure, scattered design?

I completely LOVE this one! It’s each pure (as in, made from a pure materials), however it’s additionally sculptural because the boulders have clearly been minimize into sq. shapes. It’s somewhat bit fashionable, however not so fashionable that it will look misplaced in a standard setting. Or possibly that’s what I’m telling myself as a result of I adore it a lot. 😀 And there’s loads of house there for birds to drink and bathe.

In terms of pondless waterfalls, I’m fairly explicit. Out of each ten that I have a look at, 9 of them look extremely faux. However this one from the Backyard Reply YouTube channel is probably the most pure one I’ve ever seen. It is a screenshot from the video, and you may see how attractive it’s. Should you’re planning a pondless waterfall, I HIGHLY advocate that you just watch this complete video as a result of the fellows who put in this one had some superb suggestions and ideas for getting that pure look.

Sugar Kettle Fountains

Till yesterday, I had by no means even heard of a sugar kettle. Now I can’t get sufficient of sugar kettles! To get the genuine forged iron variety, you’ll pay fairly a bit of cash. As in, a LOT of cash. However you too can get replicas made from fiberglass, and whereas they’re not fairly low-cost, they’re a fraction of the worth of the forged iron kettles. However the potentialities with these sugar kettles are countless.

That is my favourite one which I’ve discovered but. If these are forged iron, I can’t even think about how a lot that massive kettle would value. However isn’t it fairly?!

I additionally actually just like the simplicity of this one.

Anyway, these had been just a few of the concepts and hyperlinks that folks supplied for me on yesterday’s put up, and I’ve completely loved wanting by means of them, doing a bit extra analysis, and imagining every kind in my little “courtyard” space. I don’t know that y’all have made my resolution any simpler, as a result of now I’ve so many extra choices earlier than me that I by no means knew existed earlier than. 😀 However it’ll be enjoyable to slim them down and discover precisely which one I wish to showcase in that little space of my entrance yard.

If I had been compelled to resolve in the present day, I’d most likely select both my very own design utilizing the wine barrel hoop concept or some type of sugar kettle fountain design. As of this very second, these are those that stand out in my thoughts for that exact space. The extra pure effervescent boulders and pondless waterfalls appear higher suited to the again yard, and people fairly store-bought, self-contained fountains might be tucked into different (smaller) corners of flower beds. However I would like one thing fairly massive and crowd pleasing for this explicit space in entrance of the breakfast room home windows, and it must be tall sufficient and huge sufficient in order that we will get pleasure from it from inside in addition to exterior. So a sugar kettle or tall sculptural fountain looks like an amazing selection.

I cherished wanting by means of your whole ideas! Now my thoughts is spinning. 😀 However if in case you have extra, preserve ’em coming!

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