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New desert home built around indoor water wall & koi pond by Kent Wallace, Living Water Solutions
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hen the new owner of a yet-to-be-built home wants a koi pond and the house gets built around it, the pond shell is often the first concrete to be installed.
Writing on the Water Wall This project started in late 2019 and finished in the spring of 2021. The pond is a trapezoidSERIES: s haped Best Pond Practices interior koi This is an installment of pond inside an ongoing, multi-part series. the home’s Be sure to watch for further entrance installments in future issues! from the garage area on one side and the front entry of the home on the other end. Entering the home, you pass by the koi pond first. A ceiling-high water wall is the backdrop for the pond. A year earlier, the owner had a similar design for a home through another developer that did not get built. The design for the water wall over the pond was a theme that was important to the owner. When the owner changed developers and moved over to Blue Heron, he took the water wall concept and me with him. Water walls can be a maintenance issue over time, so the decision was made to make it a separate system from the pond, isolating it with a narrow trough just above water May/June 2021
Formal pond with water-wall backdrop
Water walls can be a maintenance issue over time, so the decision was made to make it a separate system from the pond, isolating it with a narrow trough just above water level as a chlorinated feature. POND Trade Magazine 53
