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Having a patio adds a totally new dimension to the concept of home. One really can’t call a full featured design like we have available today a patio, for it is really much more than that. The patio is really just the paving, the feature elements we add turn these backyard places into what can only be known as Phoenix outdoor living spaces.

There are so many different elements these days that we can add to enrich and beautify these exterior rooms. For some homeowners in the Scottsdale – Phoenix area, water features are preferred to be part of the swimming pool and double as a fountain. Others have no pool in the backyard, and for them the addition of waterfalls or outdoor water fountains are highly sought after elements to be worked into the space or its surrounding planting areas.

Like all other parts of this particular area of Phoenix landscape design, water features can take on any style at all. They can be rustic or very contemporary, built of natural materials or from glass and steel. Its all a matter of taste preferences from yard to yard. A true waterfall would obviously be built of rocks as it would be in nature, other materials would be classed more as fountains.

Against the backdrop of the untamed desert landscape, natural rocks and stone seem the perfect choice of material for waterfalls to harmonize the distant view with the outdoor living space’s overall appeal. They do, without a doubt, create the perfect accent to plants of any kind and easily fit into any backyard landscape design theme.

The use of natural rocks also allows a totally customized waterfalls design not possible with any prefabricated or molded pieces. They can take on any shape or size the homeowner desires and the available spaces allow. For most, a small waterfalls tucked into a corner near the seating area is preferred. As most Phoenix landscapers will tell you, this gives you an affordable water feature that will be very easy to care for and the lowest maintenance. They also make a great deal of sense, as they use very low volumes of water to run, yet no amount of ambiance is sacrificed.

Adding simple night lighting to waterfalls in outdoor living spaces is an excellent idea. Water features that are lit at night add a unique visual accent for relaxing and entertaining.

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From Scottsdale to Glendale and Phoenix, landscape design for outdoor living spaces and especially pool landscaping gives us the perfect place to add water features. Many homeowners will want to conserve water usage in their yards and landscaping, so it makes a great deal of sense that in areas around Phoenix and Glendale, Arizona swimming pool fountains many times double as waterfalls.

The beauty of natural rocks used in constructing nicely designed water features like this really does a lot for enhancing the attractiveness of swimming pools and at the same time provide the focal point for your Arizona pool landscaping. With compact properties like most of us have today, fitting as many lifestyle enhancement features into a small area is one of the first challenges of getting the most out of our outdoor living spaces as possible. So, it’s rather convenient that these in demand elements and requirements all work so well together.

After all, traditional Arizona swimming pool fountains aren’t much to look at – a white piece of plastic floating around on the surface gives you no aesthetic value whatsoever. Incorporating water features as waterfalls into the pool landscaping creates an entirely new environment in your backyard, one that is soothing and visually exciting at the same time.

Whether you live right in the main Phoenix area or out in Scottsdale or Glendale, landscaping will be important to create just the right entertaining and escape place. With patios and pool decks flowing as one area today, Glendale or Phoenix landscape design requires good planning to get everything situated just right. Sometimes small, intimate outdoor living spaces can be more exciting than large ones. Take this particular waterfalls water feature’s location that doubles as a rather impressive swimming pool fountain’s recirculation system.

If you’re going to be able to have a lot of drop to your waterfalls, putting your swimming pool right at the bottom of a steep his is exactly the site you need. Otherwise, your water feature isn’t going to look natural at all, and that is important when the desired end result is simply gorgeous Scottsdale, Phoenix or Glendale landscaping.

Not that this particular homeowner had much choice as to where their swimming pool, landscaping around it or even their water feature was going other than the foot of this steep incline. It is a very small backyard, and is now wall to wall outdoor living spaces in a very compact area. It is only a few steps from the patio and built in bbq’s location to the pool, hot tub and waterfalls that doubles as the swimming pool fountains. It was a challenge to plan and install, but this unique Phoenix landscape design is the perfect setting for a wonderful place to escape in privacy and entertain small groups of friends.

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While Arizona courtyards are really connected to a home’s structure, they can be inviting outdoor living spaces and a popular part of your Phoenix or Glendale landscaping. These especially secluded outdoor rooms are an excellent place for spending quality time in the comfort of cooling shade, entertaining friends or enjoying a good book.

The elements of courtyard design for homeowners in the part of Arizona are all parts of well planned Phoenix landscape design. Since Desert Crest is a licensed general contractor, we are skilled at all facets of landscape design and installation – even those parts of a courtyard that fall under the concrete and stone masonry trade. For our clients, this means that a complete courtyard design can be planned and installed with just one contractor. Naturally, this allows them to go from the planning stage to the enjoyment stage of such a Phoenix landscape design faster and with no hassles or delay in completion.

Adding water features to courtyard designs is an excellent way to up the ambiance and relaxing quality of these private outdoor living rooms. Many times with a custom designed water feature, your courtyard can become a far more beautiful place than when installing pre-fabricated outdoor fountains.

As is seen with this particular Glendale landscaping courtyard design’s water feature, sometimes the simplest design provides the greatest decorative appeal.  While the lines in the stone masonry construction are rather contemporary, the overall feeling here is timeless and could have been there for a century.

An informal composure covered in Arizona flagstone mosaic, the square pillars at two different heights do several things to this water feature’s appeal. Visually, the add dimension and interest to the shaping of the courtyard fountain. They also change the tone of the falling water sound. The farther water falls, as well as the speed it moves at has much to do with the music a water feature creates – whether it’s done as natural looking waterfalls, or a stylized fountain. Here, the addition of spilling over terracotta pots adds tons of interest and really does a lot to put more emphasis on the visual appeal it adds to this shady courtyard design.

Whether you live in Glendale or Phoenix, landscape design that includes a very unique and attractive water feature adds great value to these types of outdoor living rooms, as well as to your home’s curb appeal and market value. For complete Phoenix and Glendale landscaping that will have both you and your guests raving about the beauty of your property, a call to Desert Crest can make it happen in a very short time.

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Water is the most magical element of nature.

Water cools the air and brings life from the soil. It embraces the sun and adds music to the air in movement.

It isn’t one bit surprising that water features like the courtyard fountain and waterfalls are in big demand for Arizona outdoor living rooms.

The mild climate around the Phoenix area, allows us to enjoy the beauty of moving water and relaxing outdoors year around.

Creating different tones with water movement.

The difference in mood between trickling music of courtyard fountains to the singing sound of a babbling brook is something that a good Phoenix water features designer will know. Creating the right mood and background music for your outdoor living patio or stone floored courtyard is important. Since Arizona waterscaping tends to be small as opposed to other areas of the country, having waterfalls music that is too loud, will most likely never be a problem. However, the placing of your water feature should be given thorough consideration, especially in the larger space of patio designs. You will want to get the most enjoyment from the sound in all seating or activity areas. Many outdoor living area waterfalls today are added to the pool deck that is adjacent to the patio.

Enhancing the attributes of water features with the addition of fiber optic lighting adds new dimension to your Phoenix landscape design and outdoor living rooms. There is nothing quite like the cooling, soothing benefits of a courtyard fountain or patio waterfalls feature in your Arizona landscaping.

Waterfalls to water fountains, there is a design to compliment every taste.

The glazed, dark pedestal basin in this particular pale travertine courtyard adds drama along with the cooling sound. of flowing water. Designing the courtyard flooring to be light and reflect the heat is a smart choice in Arizona landscape design. Selecting a light colored courtyard fountain would not give the central focal point this pairing does. Some Phoenix area homeowners would choose water features that recede visually, while others want their courtyard fountain or waterfalls to stand out and become an ornament that commands attention. No matter what landscape design taste you have, Desert Crest will be able to design the perfect waterscaping or water feature to suite you and your home to a tee.

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Nothing suits your home and Phoenix landscaping as well as a water feature created uniquely for you.

Introducing your guests to the ambiance of your home begins at the curb with the big picture of any residential property, a house well framed by the overall landscaping. Well balanced landscaping in Phoenix includes both soft and hardscape elements. The presence of water features like this lovely front entrance fountain instantly adds a multi-faceted benefits to your outdoor foyer.

The fountain and bowl construction add texture and color in an interesting display of mixed hardscape elements. While not technically softscaping, the water in your front door apron is a softening visual effect, but also adds sound that no desert plant can ever bestow. Additionally, your front courtyard water feature of a well placed fountain is a source of natural cooling element and raw serotonin released into the air. Knowing all the wonders moving water and its container can add to your front door welcome makes it easy to understand why so many Phoenix area homeowners are eager to add courtyard fountains and outliving area waterfalls to their landscaping.

Designing just the right water feature entails a keen sense of color and great working knowledge of the materials and hardware capabilities. Yes, you can buy a complete kit courtyard fountains at a major retail store, but then your water feature’s going to look like everyone else’s in town. For discerning homeowners, the right water feature element in their front yard landscaping in Phoenix and the surrounding communities will be unique. The design and colors of materials used will pull in the different features of their home to perfection and not just sit there looking like it was pulled out of a box and slapped into place.

Custom water features are made possible by Arizona landscapers around Phoenix who are very skilled with masonry, stone and tile construction. With an experienced contractor, your outdoor foyer’s fountain can be custom sized and shaped to best fit and compliment the space. You will not have this type of choice with the cookie cutter outdoor fountains found at the closest big box store. You will find more value and home enhancement with a unique and tailor made fountain in your Phoenix landscaping.

Why settle for something suitable, when your front entry fountain can be perfectly matched and look right at home? Nothing says welcome like a well blended design and that musical note emitted from moving water. A call to Desert Crest, of Ranking Arizona landscapers in the Top 10, will have your custom designed water feature quickly into the planning stage. You’ll be amazed at the instant value these Phoenix landscaping elements add to your outdoor areas with a superior masonry craftsman on the job.

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One of the hottest topics splashing around in the Arizona landscape design community today is the addition of water features. These outdoor living area elements can be as simple as courtyard fountains or elaborate as cascading waterfalls with multiple ponds inhabited by colorful fish and beautiful water plants.

Instilling a rejuvenating mood and evoking a setting of serenity to New River outdoor living patios or courtyard designs is something not possible to create in any other way. Water features add many benefits to your Arizona landscape design. Transformation of a place or a mood is simple with water; it has always had this affect on a space and a person. The reason is the fact that splashing water emits raw beneficial serotonin into the air around water features in nature. Applying this attitude adjustment to your Arizona landscaping can create the perfect escape you need from the outside world and its headaches.

One of the more popular types of water features used in New River landscape design is backyard ponds. The well designed landscape pond is great looking through the windows of your home and an attraction that beckons friends and family to gather and absorb the tranquility. The ambient sounds provided by Arizona water features like ponds and courtyard fountains will always deliver soft background music enhanced by mood elevators as a natural resource for outdoor living areas.

Increasing the beauty and relaxation of pool decks in Arizona with waterfalls is wonderful. Adding the enhancement of night lit waterfalls around the pool deck? New River landscaping can hit a whole new zenith. As part of patio designs, in Arizona courtyards or greeting guests in your outdoor foyer – you can extend the enjoyment of water features to all hours of the night and day with underwater lighting.

Adding fish to your New River pond design will definitely make it into the focal point for your outdoor living patio entertainment. You, your family and all your visitors will become enthralled watching hours of fish activity.

However, before you get too excited about how adding water features in New River landscaping can become a valuable and entertaining asset, there are two important decisions to make that include its location and size.

Take into consideration two elements when choosing a location – sun and visibility. You need a spot in your New River landscape design where sunlight shines at least four hours per day so any aquatic plants can bloom. You can place water features in the shade if you do not include blooming water plants. Also, adding plants to the rocky edges of Arizona water features like ponds and waterfalls deliver half of the beauty you would expect from outdoor living area enhancements as part of your landscape design.

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Landscaping design commonly features small waterfalls around Phoenix patio designs and swimming pools. This water features application makes an incredible difference in the whole feeling of your Arizona backyard. Outdoor living rooms are always more relaxing and inviting when you add cascading water. What is less commonly and very attractive is the addition of water features streams to desert landscaping design.

This particular Phoenix homeowner had a steep, unsightly cut away hillside detracting from their outdoor living room scenery. The landscape designer found the perfect place to install very natural looking waterfalls and stream feature completely altering the entire effect of this Arizona backyard. The use of streams in Phoenix landscaping adds much value in allowing the water feature to wind along from one prominent enjoyment spot to another.

The use of a stone lined channel is a wonderful use of the historical Southwestern way of delivering water from its source to a home or village. This design theme is very fitting use in complimenting Phoenix architecture and lifestyle patios. The boulder strewn streams bordered by a jumbled rock and lush plants leading away from waterfalls found in landscape designs around less arid regions of the country would look very alien here in the desert. This aqueduct design style for streams around Phoenix patios and adobe homes is the perfect architectural compliment.

The sound of babbling water adds much cheer to the outdoor living lifestyle in the Arizona desert. Landscaping in Phoenix can take on so much more depth and provide extended benefits with waterfalls and the unexpected streams in the landscape design. The right landscape designer for creating an aqueduct stream and waterfalls water feature to compliment your home and lifestyle must also be an accomplished mason to be able to build a flawless water channel border as sleek as the adobe on your home.

A very realistic setting this particular Phoenix landscape design has created taking all advantages of the steep slope and its ruble rich exterior surface. Unlike trying to create natural looking waterfalls on flat ground in the desert, landscaping issues like this carved away hill can sometimes be turned into the cloud with a beautiful silver lining. Finding this type of treatment solution requires a very creative and innovative landscape designer. Which is what landscaping design and installation is meant to be, creating beauty by working with nature and existing land forms rather than recreating the entire world one yard at a time.

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Timeless beauty from native Arizona stone for patio water features and firepits work well with Phoenix homes.

Patio designs for Phoenix homes do not have to be large to make space for all the comforts of outdoor living. The beauty of our native Arizona stone adds great interest when the color selected for building water features and firepits echoes the tones of your pavers for patio. The overall effect when the paving stones flooring and the masonry features give off the appearance that they were all created with the same stone looks very sophisticated. While we sometimes prefer to make the elements of patio designs accent each other rather than look to be all made of the same material, such a choice changes the feeling of your outdoor living rooms completely.

These Phoenix homeowners have a rather small private space, so the patio designs for this yard were best to be built from lighter tones to give the feeling of a larger space. Instead of electing a solid color for the paving stones patio floor, a blend of desert landscape colors can easily be found in native Arizona stone. Sticking to stone masonry that flows with the pavers places the greater part of the weight on texture over colors. We made great use out of both weathered face stone against stucco walls in the background and smoother cut stone in both structures.

The difference in coloring and pattern found in cut stone of the same type used in the weathered edge form gives this patio water fountain wall and basin more interest. Contrasting smooth with rough surfaces is a great way to give a lot more personality than if everything looked exactly the same. Designing really artistic looking stone structures for your Phoenix home requires a keen eye for natural stone. The finished look of your Arizona water feature or firepit will always have a great deal more beauty when all six sides of the pieces used in the construction are considered.

Firepits burning wood and natural gas are both popular choices for evening light and warmth in outdoor rooms. The available space you have in the private areas of your yard, can limit where these lifestyle enhancements of fire and

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water are situated. Some homeowners in Phoenix elect to put them at opposite sides of the patio designs. Others choose the combination of being close to the cascading water for its cooling effect and soothing sound to be enjoyable along with the open flames of their patio firepit.

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Custom courtyard fountains for Phonix homes can be very unique. Beautiful use of color and form with this more sculptural looking custom courtyard fountain.

Adding water features to your Phoenix courtyard or patio setting creates an element that is both soothing to your psyche and a natural cooling benefit. Custom designed outdoor living room fountains allow your water feature to coordinate perfectly with your taste and the home’s architecture. There are many things that can be used to create very unique courtyard fountains for the Arizona home. It can be rather ruggedly handsome using native Arizona stone or very traditional and elegant in nature.

Stone orbs and those made from frost tolerant clay or other sculpture materials can give a water fountain feature a very interesting look. The addition of a stop such as is used in the top photograph will alter the music Phoenix fountains will make.

Making use of natural stone constructed as masonry gives you the opportunity to creating a waterfalls feature that is geometric instead of appearing like something stumbled upon in nature. Such a mortared basin and waterfalls wall can be tucked into the corner and erected along the wall of the house. The same type of outdoor living room fountain concept can be crafted from three dimensional

Native Arizona stone makes a sharp looking patio waterfalls fountain.

pavers. This is done by building 2 pillars as ends and a low freestanding wall to create the waterfalls channel in. Channel waterfalls like these can be backlit with colored fiber optic lighting for wonderful nighttime effects.

It is also possible to custom install the traditional fountains you can find at Phoenix garden and patio centers. They can be combined with mortared natural stone pools or sculptural ones in many different sizes. The use of tiny fiber optic lights can add a lot of beauty and needed illumination to dramatically change the look of the courtyard or patio.

It is popular with Phoenix homeowners to also add custom water fountains in other places in their landscaping too. Some people request having the perfect design to accent the approach to their front door. Situating a water fountain feature near you bedroom or office window can also allow you to reap the soothing benefits of the cascading music through an open window. Working with an experienced custom water fountain designer will ensure that your new Phoenix water feature will hold up to the drastic changes in our desert climate and be long lasting for many years of enjoyment.

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The beauty of a pondless waterfall makes a wonderful addition to the patio or poolside.

The element of water and its musical movement makes the perfect outdoor living enhancement for your Phoenix patio or poolside. Tucking a small water feature that is artistically formed to look very natural into a select space can add great value to your home. Waterfalls do not have to be huge to provide a soothing, relaxing atmosphere to your Arizona landscaping.

The magic of water that moves is not psychosomatic. It actually releases serotonin into the air. When you are close to running water such as small patio waterfalls, your body makes excellent use of the floating serotonin. Just 20 minutes spent relaxing next to your cascading water feature can actually erase stress and lift your mood … naturally. So if you’re feeling that having waterfalls installed in your Phoenix landscaping is rather extravagant, think again. You’ll be saving money on headache relief from Advil and adjusting your entire outlook on a daily basis.

Having your waterfalls designed to recirculate the water in your swimming pool is an excellent idea for desert homeowners. You new waterfalls will always have clear, sparkling water running through it. Imagine the lifestyle enhancement you can add to your outdoor living space with a custom designed waterfalls that is perfectly suited to your space and taste. The natural rocks and boulders available for Phoenix landscaping water features are just the right colors to blend beautifully with our adobe architecture.

If you happen to have a slope in your yard, you will be able to enjoy longer cascades from new Phoenix waterfalls. While having a pond built in desert landscaping is not always a good choice, pondless waterfalls and streams are perfect for conserving water without sacrificing its magical qualities. If your yard has rather flat terrain, you can still enjoy the wonders of waterfalls in your Arizona landscaping. The secret is designing the water feature to mimic nature for the best possible visual appeal.

Custom waterfalls, Phoenix homeowner, will add value to your real estate in a way no manufactured model purchased at a store could hope to impart. Using natural rocks and soil allows you to grow  grasses and perennial plants along the edges of the cascade or stream bank. This is important to making your waterfalls or stream increase in beauty, and adds more value to your home. You’ll also be able to enjoy your pondless waterfalls year around in Phoenix, making it a wonderful addition to your outdoor living room.

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