Water Feature Ideas for Your Dream Backyard
Adding a water feature to your backyard enhances the entire experience. It creates a serene atmosphere for relaxation, sets the perfect tone for entertaining, and brings a touch of elegance to your outdoor space. The right design blends seamlessly with your landscape, making your backyard feel more refined and effortlessly inviting.
Water Feature Ideas for Your Dream Backyard
Adding a water feature to your backyard enhances the entire experience. It creates a serene atmosphere for relaxation, sets the perfect tone for entertaining, and brings a touch of elegance to your outdoor space. The right design blends seamlessly with your landscape, making your backyard feel more refined and effortlessly inviting.
Backyard Water Features Worth Adding to Your Space
At Install-It-Direct, we design and build water features that make your backyard the perfect place to relax and entertain. From classic fountains to modern pools, we create stunning water features that fit your lifestyle and space. Take a look at our most popular designs and get inspired for your own outdoor oasis.
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Waterfall
Whether paired with a pool or standing alone, waterfalls bring attention in any yard. Choose natural cascading rocks for a timeless look, or sleek metal channels for modern elegance. Pondless designs bring moving water to intimate spaces.
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Stream
Streams can be built to flow into your existing pond or water garden. Not only are streams beautiful to have in your landscape, they are also eco-friendly since they recycle the use of water.
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Fountain
Nothing adds class to a backyard like a beautiful fountain. Put a grand tiered fountain in your garden’s center, or tuck smaller ones into quiet corners. From Italian-style to modern designs, they look amazing day and night.
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Pond
Ponds are great for incorporating floating plants or fish into your backyard. Add some colorful koi fish and water lilies, and you’ve got your own slice of nature. The sound of a small waterfall makes it perfect for drowning out traffic noise.
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Water Garden
Turn your backyard into a living work of art with a water garden. These are self-sustaining spaces where plants, birds, and small fish thrive together. Add a fountain or waterfall to complete the look and enjoy the calming sounds of water.
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Lazy River
Bring luxury resort living home with your own lazy river. Gentle currents guide you through landscaped curves while hidden jets create the perfect flow. Add waterfalls and tropical plants to complete your private paradise.
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Splash Pad
Bring the fun of a water park to your home with a custom splash pad. It’s a great way to make your backyard more enjoyable for kids and families.Choose from playful water jets, themed designs, or sleek, modern touches to match your space.
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Wishing Well
Add a charming touch to your garden with a custom wishing well. It’s perfect for smaller spaces and adds that magical feel to any corner. Choose from classic stone designs or modern interpretations that work with your style.
Why Water Features Make Your Backyard Better
Whether it’s the sound of flowing water or the sparkle of sunlight on a pool, a water feature turns your backyard into something special. Here’s why homeowners love them:
Add a water feature and suddenly your backyard feels like a getaway spot. Whether it's a pool with a waterfall or a cool fountain, it's like having your own private resort. Your neighbors will definitely peek over the fence!
Nothing beats the sound of running water after a long day. Sit by your fountain with a drink, take a dip in the pool, or just listen to your waterfall—it's way better than watching TV to relax. Plus, it drowns out traffic noise and noisy neighbors.
Every great party ends up around the water. Whether it's adults chatting by the fountain or kids playing in the pool, water features naturally draw people together. They create those perfect "life is good" moments.
Water features work their magic 24/7. During the day, they sparkle in the sun. At night, with some well-placed lights, they transform your backyard into a relaxing spot. It's like having two different spaces in one.
In premium neighborhoods, custom water features set your home apart. They add that perfect finishing touch to your outdoor living spaces while providing the resort-style amenities buyers expect at this price point.
Why Choose Us for Your Custom Water Feature Installation
When it comes to creating your perfect backyard water feature, experience and expertise matter.
Here’s what makes Install-It-Direct the right choice:
Customers
Just ask any of our nearly 6,000 clients whose backyards have become their own private paradise with custom water features.
of Experience
Our expertise comes from decades of focusing on what matters most - turning your water feature dreams into stunning reality.
With over 30,000 outdoor spaces created, we understand exactly what makes a water feature work for your home and lifestyle.
Featured Reviews
“My entire backyard is a pool and pool deck. The pool deck was concrete with slate ribbons and was in bad shape…the concrete was buckling and pitted.
Will Thrower and his crew were on time, friendly, efficient, knowledgeable, responsive, timely, competent with a strong desire to please. The crew always had someone on hand to answer any questions. They were helpful and mindful of maintaining good neighbor relations by minimizing noise, maintaining a work schedule compatible with the neighborhood, and keeping a neat, clean, organized work space. The crew was hard working from start to finish and I received many compliments from my neighbors regarding how well my project was going compared to some of the experiences my neighbors had had with paver installation.
They worked well with other contractors who were also doing work for me. Will and his crew completed the 1372 square foot job on time, on budget with no surprises! I was pleased with their professionalism and my wife and I highly recommend Will and his crew.”
ROB E.
“This is the third time Install-It-Direct has done work on our property and they are just as good now as they were in 2010 when they did the first project. Rich, Patrick, Cosme, and crew understood that it was a painful but necessary decision for us to comply with the State’s AB 3074 Zone Zero. Plans were drawn up and a meeting on site that included a very thorough walk-through of the project was done several days before the start date so there would be no surprises. They listened and answered every question. We are very pleased with what they did and how they did it. There was daily contact with Patrick and Rich while the work was being done and they have stayed in touch to make sure we are happy with the project.”
JEAN P.
We worked with Chris MacMillan and INSTALL-IT-DIRECT to completely redo our backyard. We installed pavers, a new pergola, paver walls, and a natural gas fire pit. Chris was awesome from start-to-finish. His communication skills are top-notch and he proposes really great design ideas that we hadn’t even thought of ourselves. The workers showed up on-time every day and everything came through as scheduled and I was kept in the loop on everything that was going on. This was very well organized and executed. Special thanks to Chris for being a really nice and funny guy too. I would work with this company again in a heartbeat.
JOHN D.
Design Your Own Waterscape
Whether you picture yourself relaxing by a peaceful fountain or entertaining friends around a stunning pool, we’ll make it happen. At Install-It-Direct, we’ve spent 25 years creating water features that transform ordinary backyards into extraordinary escapes.
Design Your Own Waterscape
Whether you picture yourself relaxing by a peaceful fountain or entertaining friends around a stunning pool, we’ll make it happen. At Install-It-Direct, we’ve spent 25 years creating water features that transform ordinary backyards into extraordinary escapes.