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Gaze at Water Features from your Garden Room

By Francesca McGlone on 27th October, 2010

A cascade of relaxation, in the form of a water feature can define the ambiance of your garden room, serving as a spectacle in which troubles are swept away amidst contemplation. A water feature adds visual beauty to a garden, while also infusing tranquil sounds to a scene in the form of therapeutic resonance. This can help to activate inspiration, lulling an individual into contentment by almost massaging the mind with its rhythmic babble to produce a pervading sense of serenity.

Water holds an inherent fascination for most, apparent when large volumes of visitors are attracted to natural water features across the world, from the tallest waterfall, Angel Falls in Venezuela and the shelf of water that is created by Niagara Falls in Canada, which showcase their own rainbows. Geysers, commonly found in Iceland throw up a column of hot water high into the air and often attract a crowd, who witness the water that settles back onto the ground turn to ice. Water in all its forms is infused with mesmerising qualities that never fail to make an impact. Even luxury hotels use water as an indicator of their status, lit up in jets that twirl and pivot whilst perfecting dazzling shapes. The most famous and largest example is based in the glitzy city of Dubai, where images are projected onto elevated towers of water, made possible by 6,600 lights and 50 projectors. A similar but scaled down effect can be incorporated into a water feature, set in a garden. Underwater lights can be installed, illuminating a pond, or outside lights can be scattered or placed carefully, so that an evening in a garden room can overlook a light-filled water feature, oozing with glamour.

Water features designs are vast and can be influenced by mythology, exotic locations or a specific theme. Water’s various colours, which range from the white froth and mist produced in fast currents to the black depths and moss green coverings that also includes adopting the colours of the sun, make water a presence that constantly exhibits something new. Hydrotherapy is used as a method of pain relief and is another example of how we reap benefits from water. Hydrotherapy is synonymous with the term ‘water cure’ which reveals water’s powerful effects, which radiate out, even without direct contact.

Water features are a way of creating an ever changing display, rooted as a constant source of beauty in the garden that can vary from still or trickling displays to an overflowing petticoat of water from a round dish. From rockery, bridges and steps to a globe water fountain that also acts as art, as it becomes engulfed in shining water, as well as a simple rustic urn that tumbles out water into a pond below; all water features possess the ability to introduce aqueous beauty and harmony into a garden room.










 


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