Exterior
Worlds will Make Your Small Yard Become Alive and Exciting with the Living
Energy of a Koi Pond
With the living
energy of a koi pond custom built for you by Exterior Worlds, the backyard just
beyond your living room or kitchen can be turned into a vibrant extension of
indoor space that expands your home and enlarges the appearance of your
property.
Even if the luxury
landscape features like formal gardens, courtyards, entry gardens, outdoor
fireplaces, and hill landscapes that some of your friends have might not be
elements that can be successfully created in your yard due to limited lot size,
your yard can still be made to look like the best property on your
block.
Imagine a koi pond
just beyond the threshold of your living room. The pond is geometrically
complimentary to the architectural style of your home. It not only fits
your yard’s dimensions in terms of style, but it also looks like a virtual image
of your home transposed upon the terrain of your landscape.
A patio lines the
edge of the water, filled with weather resistant outdoor furniture. A
walkway, made from the same materials as your patio, runs back to your home to
the threshold of your house.
What you have, in
effect here, is an extension of indoor space into outdoor space. The
actual size of your yard becomes irrelevant at this point, because the aesthetic
is centralized on the water, the swimming fish, and the patio and walkway design
that link them back to your home interior.
This provides you
with a very powerful tool in creating unique and memorable home entertainment
venues for family, clients, and friends. If the weather is warm, clear,
and mosquitoes are few, you can open your living room and use your
kitchen-dining area as the serving area for dinner and drinks. The living
room, walkway, and koi pond patio are transformed into a unified realm of
entertainment.
Your guests will love the sense of freedom that the open sky and illuminated
pond brings to their senses. As they stroll along the walkway and stand by
the patio to watch the fish play in the lighted water, their eyes will see the
koi
pond as part of an enlarged, luxury home environment.
This perception of
enlargement actually tricks the eye into seeing the entire landscape as
enlarged. Never will they notice how “small” you yard is,
Now it may not be
possible to always blend the indoor and outdoor environments this way during
certain times of the year. There are rains, there are a few months of
cold, and there are terrible swarms of mosquitoes that plague us.
Such circumstances
should not discourage us from investing in a koi pond, small
landscape design, however. By positioning the structure in clear view
of the home interior, guests can still enjoy its beauty even though directly
experiencing it may not be possible from a comfort zone perspective.
Lights suspended in
overhanging trees, and LED underwater lights that shine from underneath the
peaceful movements of the fish, will make your pond the premier keynote of your
party regardless of where your guests are actually seated.
For more the 20 years Exterior Worlds
has specialized in servicing many of Houston's fine neighborhoods.
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