Hardscaping can elevate your home’s outdoor living environment, creating a sophisticated look for your property while also giving you a unique space for entertaining or providing other functionality. You have far more choices for your hardscaping than the type or color of stone. Adding water features is a great way to highlight and enhance certain aspects of your hardscaping. You can add a beautiful pond next to your retaining wall or put a lovely water fountain in the middle of your patio.
Consider some of these latest trends for water features for your home’s hardscape:
Lighting
The right lighting can bring out the beauty in any feature. Consider adding lighting inside the water feature, to add a glow to a fountain or to make it look like light itself is streaming out of the water spouts. You can also add mood lighting around the water feature, creating just the right ambience for nighttime entertaining.
Fire
You can get your lighting from a natural fire, which can also add warmth on cold nights. A firepit can also give you a place to roast marshmallows with the kids, or it can be a centerpiece for conversation while you are relaxing outside with friends.
Interactivity
Your water feature doesn’t need to be stuck inside a pool or fountain. You can add interactive jets to your patio area, creating spouts of water spring up from the stones. Your kids will love running through it like a sprinkler. If you don’t have kids, you and your guests will love watching the jets sprout playfully around the stone.
Pondless Waterfall
With a pondless waterfall, you can enjoy the lovely look of a waterfall in a much smaller space. You don’t need the large footprint to pool the water that pours down from the waterfall. Instead, the water is collected into a basin under the stone that then recycles into the waterfall itself. You can put the pondless waterfall just about anywhere – next a retaining wall, as a feature for a planter, or as an enhancement for an entryway.
Solar Technology
Water features can use a lot of electricity. You can enjoy the features you want while also saving money on energy costs by getting water features powered by solar technology. The features will be powered up by the energy of the sun during the day, which should keep them running whenever you need them.
Smart Control
More and more home features are now able to be powered by the touch of a button on your smartphone. You can now get water features that you can connect to your smartphone, allowing you to turn on or off as you please, change water temperature, or put on a schedule. The options depend on the features you choose and the manufacturer.
Triad Associates is ready to help you elevate your hardscape with the latest water features. We can install waterfalls, pondless waterfalls, firepits, lighting, and more. We can help you explore the options to determine what will look best on your property. We’ll use 3D design software to show you what’s possible. Call us today to start designing your beautiful new hardscape with water features and other beautiful elements.
