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Simple Fountains for Indoors & Outdoors : 20 Step-By-Step Projectsby Dorcas Adkins Hardcover - 149 pages (November 1999) Storey Books ISBN: 1580171907 Dimensions (in inches): 0.65 x 9.67 x 10.42 Check price @ amazon.com , amazon.ca , amazon.co.uk Few elements are as ubiquitous or as essential as water, or as appealing for the soothing sights and sounds with which it enhances our environment. Fountains are the ideal way to incorporate water's magic into our homes and gardens, and the fountain maker becomes something of an illusionist, striving emulate nature and to conceal the mechanics that make the perpetual flow of water possible. Dorcas Adkins is certainly a magician when it comes to fountain design. Her wizardry encompasses bamboo, wood, ceramic, concrete, stone, and metal creations, from small tabletop delights to full-sized garden waterfalls. Her extremely thorough and well-diagrammed instructions make even the most complex projects approachable--and some of them are indeed fairly complex, involving woodworking skills, plaster and concrete casting, ceramic modeling, soldering, or rigging an existing sculpture. But the results are well worth the effort, yielding Zen-like arrangements in which water trickles over a miniature bonsai garden, through bamboo piping, or into a rustic stone trough filled with water lilies; or more traditional Western constructions such as a ewer-toting cherub, a shell-and-stone-and-tile mosaic, or various spouting faces. Beginners or those seeking smaller-scale productions are best off starting with a more basic approach, like Dawn Cusick's Tabletop Fountains. But for the more adventurous fountaineers, it's hard to beat Adkins's presentation, which also helpfully includes a list of mail-order suppliers and a useful at-a-glance guide to finding general materials, from antique tubs to pond liners to wooden barrels. Indoor Water Garden Design: 20 Eye-catching Designs to Bring the Outdoors Into Your Home by Yvonne Rees Hardcover - 144 pages (January 15, 2002) Barrons Educational Series ISBN: 0764153749 Water in the Garden : A Complete Guide to the Design and Installation of Ponds, Fountains, Streams, and Waterfalls by James Allison Hardcover - 160 pages (April 1991) Bulfinch Press ISBN: 0821218395 The Complete Pond Builder : Creating a Beautiful Water Garden by Helen Nash Paperback - 144 pages (April 1997) Sterling Publications ISBN: 0806938676 Outdoor Water Features: 16 Easy-to-Build Projects For Your Yard and Garden by Alan Bridgewater, Gill Bridgewater Paperback - 128 pages No Amer edition (January 10, 2001) Storey Books ISBN: 1580173349 Simple Fountains for Indoors & Outdoors : 20 Step-By-Step Projects by Dorcas Adkins Hardcover - 149 pages (November 1999) Storey Books ISBN: 1580171907 The Ponder's Bible by Gösta H. Lovgren Paperback - 178 pages (February 1, 2000), Carolelle Publishing ISBN: 1929741081 The Rock & Water Garden Expert (Expert Series) by D.G., Dr. Hessayon Paperback - 128 pages (March 1993), Sterling Publications ISBN: 090350538X |
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