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Creating an Outdoor Living Space

July 6, 2012 Written by Robert Robillard 5 Comments
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Planning An Outdoor Living Space: When entertaining the favorite hangout in my home always seemed to be the kitchen. There seems to be a magnetic pull to the kitchen, especially when my wife is in there entertaining the crowd with her culinary skills and great sense of humor.  A sense of humor, I might add, sometimes at my expense!! Summertime however is a different story, the polarity switches and the hangout becomes my screened in … [Read more...]

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Maintaining Your Water Feature

May 4, 2010 Written by Robert Robillard Leave a Comment

Maintaining your water feature does not need to be a headache. On the contrary, if set up properly a garden water feature should be low maintenance.The following tips and some good old common sense should provide you with enough information to create and maintain a low maintenance, high enjoyment water feature.The problem many people have is that they do not maintain their water feature and let the water conditions deteriorate to the point where … [Read more...]

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How To Winterize Your Water Fountain

October 7, 2009 Written by Robert Robillard 2 Comments

Fall is upon us and it's time to close the pools and winterize outdoor water features.Most outdoor fountains are made to stand up to the elements, but precautions have to be taken to ensure that water does not freeze in your fountain and cause it to crack, or damage your pump during the cold winter months.The best case scenario would be to drain and disassemble your fountain and place it in a shed or garage to completely protect it from damaging … [Read more...]

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Hidden Fountain Cost

July 9, 2009 Written by Robert Robillard 1 Comment

Photo of hidden fountain by ConcordCarpenter [click on photo to enlarge] Since posting on how I built this hidden fountain I have been asked by friends and customers how much it cost to build. If you missed that post I have included them at the bottom of this one. More specifically I'm asked the question; How much would it cost ME to have one installed? My initial response is ....... Since each design and installation location … [Read more...]

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How To Build A Disappearing Water Fountain

June 8, 2009 Written by Robert Robillard 6 Comments

Hidden Water Basin  Part 2 of 2 In part 1 of Building a disappearing water fountain, I detailed how I was going to build a "disappearing water fountain" with a glazed pot that was a gift from a friend.  Learn how How To Build A Disappearing Water Fountain with this step by step guide. We chose the spot, shown below, for the disappearing fountain. With a disappearing fountain, water is pumped from a hidden reservoir buried in the … [Read more...]

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Building A Glazed Pottery Fountain Part 1

May 27, 2009 Written by Robert Robillard Leave a Comment

Part 1 of 2 posts.... A great friend of ours bought my wife and I a beautiful blue, glazed pot for our wedding anniversary. The blue glaze matches the blue tiles surrounding our pool. My wife has wanted a water feature by the pool for awhile now and asked me to make this glazed pot into a water fountain. Part of my honey-dew list this weekend was to start building the water feature, similar to the one one shown above, for our back … [Read more...]

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Building A Glazed Pottery Fountain Part 1

May 27, 2009 Written by Robert Robillard 7 Comments

Part 1 of 2 posts.... A great friend of ours bought my wife and I a beautiful blue, glazed pot for our wedding anniversary. The blue glaze matches the blue tiles surrounding our pool. My wife has wanted a water feature by the pool for awhile now and asked me to make this glazed pot into a water fountain. Part of my honey-dew list this weekend was to start building the water feature, similar to the one one shown above, for our back … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Custom water fountain, Exterior Landscape, Water Features, Wine cellars