3 Tips for Choosing the Location of Your Custom Stone Fountain

A beautiful stone fountain is a spectacular addition to a home.  Stone fountains can be placed in a myriad of locations both inside and outside of your home.  Running and trickling water has been shown to relax people and when you install a stone fountain you will immensely enhance your home’s tranquility.  Choosing where to place your fountain is very important because once it is installed, it is difficult to move it.  But, that is not the only reason to carefully choose your location.  The location you choose for your fountain can enhance your home and have multiple other benefits when chosen correctly.  Below are 3 tips for choosing the location of your custom stone fountain.

3 Tips for Choosing the Location of Your Custom Stone Fountain

  1. Consider Aesthetics
    • One of the firs things to consider when installing a custom stone fountain is where it will best enhance the surrounding architectural aesthetic. For example, even though a fountain may be more conveniently installed off to the side of an entryway or at a specific location in your landscape, it may not be the best location to enhance your home’s architectural aesthetic.  If you want to place a stone fountain near an entryway, you want to place it where it will be seen and appreciated by your guests.  Perhaps you want it in the center of a path or in your entryway or foyer.  If you areplacing it in your backyard, perhaps you want it near your pool for beauty or in a garden to balance soft landscape and hard landscape.
  2. Feng Shui
    • Fountains are known for activating the “water element” in fengshui. The Spruce elaborates on the use of fountains in fengshui and how to choose the ideal fengshui location for your fountain, “Fountains are very popular in fengshui because they bring the energy of the water fengshui element, and water is an ancient fengshui symbol of wealth and prosperity. The other good fengshui reason to use a fountain indoors is the fact that a working fountain will diffuse healthy negative ions into the air. Many indoor environments can greatly benefit from at least one fengshui fountain!.. Best fengshuibagua areas to place your fengshui fountain are the following:
      • East – Health & Family area
      • Southeast – Wealth & Money area
      • North – Career & Path in Life area”
  1. Maximum Tranquility
    • Stone fountains are great white noise and the sound of running water is incredibly tranquil. Because of this, choose your fountain location to maximize tranquility.  If you have a lot of street noise, place a fountain near that so that it can drown out the noise.  If you want to wake up to the tranquil sound of running water, place it near your bedroom.  If you love to garden, place a fountain in your garden where it’s beautiful running water will further relax you.