Depending on the design of your home, you may have an outdoor living space that you want to enhance with water features, but you're just not the "fountain" type. Large commercial fountains are pleasant, but more than just a little cliché. They also take up a lot of what I call "mid-height" room. While they wouldn't take up any more space than an indoor garden pond, they clutter up the "mid-height" level of the room and can dominate your field of vision and obstruct your line of sight with visitors. There are ways to incorporate water features and small waterfalls into your outdoor living space with creative use of paver stones. The best part about this, is that it would naturally match the flooring of your patio designs.

A seat wall made from pavers can easily be turned into many waterfalls designs. The simple procedure involves installing a slim copper sleeve into the wall to create a channel that allows the water to cycle and circulate back into the paving stone garden pond. If you're feeling industrious, you can even backlight these seat walls and indoor garden pond areas with fiber optics to create a beautiful and very relaxing environment at night.

Ponds in your outdoor living space can be at floor level and can also be raised a fair distance above the patio surface. It's just a matter of making a creative way to get up and look at your garden pond. A large circular pond with water trickling down thin channels the length of the outside of the pillar into the pond that surrounds it is a nice touch, and just one example. Pleasant indeed, and certainly very chic.

These ponds are often built with preformed polymer tubs, as outdoor ponds are dug into the earth and lined with a heavy duty liner. One of the best ways to ensure your pond lasts and is easy to maintain would be to create a basin crafted from with gunite, the same material used in swimming pools. This ensures you can also get the custom shape you need.

These small and petite garden ponds can house small fish and a few pleasant, deep-water plants fit for cleaner water. While you don't want to choke off a sitting area like this with too many plants, they certainly add a relaxing ambiance when you want to sit on the edge and soak you feet after a long day. Small garden ponds like this are fantastic for a courtyard, a walkway leading to a garage or right up against your home along the exterior walls.

If you want to mix the concepts between waterfalls and fountain, you can weave the copper pipe plumbing through your stonework to feed jets of water out at various angles, creating decorative arcs of water. With strategic placement of shut off valves, you can change the style of your fountain with just a few twists. Controlling the flow also makes for a touch of serenity when you need it most. Imagine the calm silence of your outdoor patio, with no sound around you save for the gentle trickle of water around you.
Ah… and it's such an easy install – now all you have to do is find a good garden pond contractor.