Waterwalls

The latest craze in fashion seems to reflect...what, humanity’s fascination to water? Yes, it does give that impression.

Yet, for all its worth, it may be the most welcoming addition to a living room (or any other room for that matter) since the inception of air conditioners. Do you know that a moving body of water cools the surrounding’s atmosphere a bit? Not freezing mind you but cool. Cool is refreshing, and freezing cold is not.

The thing about water walls that it gives the most subtle yet highly beneficial benefits. One of them is its ability to mute a degree of noise by its own gentle noise. Do you ever wonder why on some nights you feel it’s too quiet that you can’t sleep? This is because of your awareness extending to your surroundings. We all have “muting” mechanisms and sometime this doesn’t just work correctly. You hear dripping water from the faucet so you tighten the valve. Next you hear honking of horns on nearby traffic so you draw down the thick curtains to “mute” the sound. Next the whir of the air conditioner -it goes on and on. What you need is one sound to focus, thereby muting other noises and allowing your senses to just focus on one noise, the noise of the waterwalls.

If you are familiar with some designs of Zen gardens, you’ll know that one of the most pleasant sounds to hear is the sound of water. Some Zen gardens have bamboo and water accents whose rhythmic tapping sound aides greatly in one’s meditation. Waterwalls, though with the absence of tapping bamboo sound, is a derivative of such experience. It creates a rhythmic sound of water that drowns other noises, jolting or pervasive, so that relaxation is always affordable.

I have seen this wonderful water wall art from Blu Water Wonders. This Aspen Falls Wall Fountain by Water Wonders is an exotic design of natural slate and multihued river rocks and pebbles, giving the impression of a river bed. The water that cascades on the face completes the façade. Its very beautiful by the way, that it easily becomes your best centerpiece, no matter the style and mode your home has. The Aspen Falls Wall Fountain by Water Wonders has a clear coated copper variety that eliminates the need to polish the copper parts every so often to prevent them from turning green. It costs around $799, another concept, the Sycamore Springs water wall, costs $875.

Another eccentric beauty, also from Blu Water Wonders, is what I like best. It’s the Cascade Springs Stainless Steel Wall Fountain. Don’t let the waterwall feature fool you though, all the steel here is in the housing, the waterwall itself is on the magnificent huge and humongous slate. Very nature inspired that you can get lost of the slates detail.

No two pieces of the Blu Water Wonders Cascade Springs Stainless Steel Wall Fountain is the same. The slate is specially quarried in India and shipped to the manufacturers, where it is crafted to majestic waterwalls. It comes in three varieties of colors at $1,450.

Some homes even feature an entire wall section of water walls, though waterwalls of this scale is only available upon request. And it is costly, and may require professional proposals so that the endeavor doesn’t devolve into a circus.

Contemporary designs of water walls are, however quite different from the approaches of today. Traditional designs where mostly sculptures with concept and designs relic from a century back. Water wall fountains where just what you might except of a wall mounted fountain. A good majority of them are for the purpose of drinking.