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Outdoor fountains are elegant and charming additions to any outside garden, and also serve as artistic centerpieces across many business and private landscapes. They range from dramatic and elaborate to simple and quaint. They are as diverse and unique as the imagination itself, offering opportunities for creating a truly artistic, and unique outside environment.

Fountains range from stone and wood, to marble, granite, porcelain, cement, and bamboo. Some are meant as additions to tranquil gardens, surrounded by rock walls, and stone paths, while others are as simple as small watering birdbaths. Some are spectacular, with exalted fountains placed in cement ponds, surrounded by sprinkler streams of water.

Designs that include water dances that turn, rise and fall, in colorful displays of light, are sometimes incorporated into outside business or government settings. Some are elaborate water art in made-made lakes and pools of water that create brilliant displays. Many others are incorporated into designs involving rocks and steps, that stream across rock paths, into waiting pools of water.

Beauty and balance can also be achieved with meditation or spiritual gardens. Some incorporate places of meditation and are surrounded by soft sounds, colors, flowers, plants and settings of relaxation. Some include water that streams down a rock or metal wall into a pool of water, creating the sound of trickling and flowing water.

Fountains do not need to be elaborate. Simple designs can be added to any garden, and might be as simple as bowls arranged to create a cascade of water from one to the other. Others are three tier, or are as simple as a small wall with a single stream of water falling into a small container below. Others are ceramic planters stacked and arranged to creating flowing and falling water.

Other ideas include stacked rocks, arranged in stair step patterns, that do not serve as a setting or masterpiece, but rather are one element of the overall design with a plant and flower setting. This is perfect for serene settings involving small benches, and a burst of lavender and other scents. The soft sound of water flowing adds to the serenity of the setting. Rock wells can be built in a stacked pattern, or wooden barrels, with water flowing from one to the other.

There are truly endless possibilities for outside fountains, and the overall style chosen depends on the setting being created. There are also endless accessories for gardens, yards, and luxury home settings. Settings range in taste and style as much as the different ideas for building them. They range from elegant and artistic, to serene, Goth, religious, and even poetic. No matter what the personal interests gardens can reflect interests, individuality and style in a truly unique and personal way.

Colors and decorative styles can be chosen that create an extension of the home decor setting into a garden atmosphere as well. No matter what type of setting or outdoor fountains are used, a little consideration, planning and preparation will create the perfect setting. The creation will mesmerize visitors, and add to the overall decor of the home.