Product Description

Now crafters can create their own tabletop fountains and add beautiful accents to their living rooms, bedrooms, kitchens, gardens and more. The author first explains the tools, techniques and materials needed to create fountains then shows how to make 15 gorgeous fountains using everything from lava rock and bamboo to shells and clay pots.

Each project is detailed with step-by-step instructions and full color photos to ensure that readers efforts turn out just right. Plus, they'll learn to incorporate flowers, driftwood, candles, figurines, crystals, plants and more to personalize their fountains and create works of stunning beauty and extraordinary calm that their friends will marvel at for years to come.

* 15 projects that include a wide variety of stunning and surprising styles
* Each fountain is adaptable to the reader's taste as well as to the availability of materials
* Other books on this topic show fewer step-by-step instructions and less variety

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #453081 in Books
• Published on: 2001-03-25
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

From Booklist
Although fountains do not necessarily rely on common household objects for their construction, Mannion streamlines the process by, first, providing an illustrated tool list and, second, by designing 15 patterns to emulate. The creative impetus came from both the author's professions as a social worker and coach and an interest in feng shui. Indoor fountains that energize plant life, calm pets, and relax people are his trademark. A few of the skills necessary might need to be learned separately, including soldering and the workings (and fixings) of submersible pumps. So there's a lot to be said for putting together a collage of stones and shells, and bamboo and rocks, that burbles away. A good foundation course in practicalities--such as cord hiding, fountain cleaning, and distilled versus tap water--enhances the basic and specific how-to instructions. Barbara Jacobs
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About the Author
Paris Mannion has been building fountains since 1995 and is the author of Create Your Indoor Fountain: Expressions of the Self. She teaches fountain-making classes, writes a monthly fountain-making newsletter, and sells fountain supplies online.

Customer Reviews

Provides color photos & directions for a range of fountains
Paris Mannion's Create Your Own Tabletop Fountains (1-58180-103-3, $24.99) provides a fine guide to creating the fountains which have become so popular in hardware and houseware stores. From supplies and materials to crafting 15 selected fountains using shells to pots, this provides color photos and directions for a range of fountains.

Create Your Own Tabletop Fountain
Wow! Lots of great info and imaginative projects in gorgeous color layout. The feng shui cures, tips on hiding the cord, and how to drill slate were particularly helpful to me. I got a noisy pump, and this book tells ways to make it operate quietly! It answered all my questions on fountain plants, how to turn the fountain off and on without getting under the couch, where to get decorating accents, and how to water seal and patch clay pots.

The illustrated projects make it so easy to get the results I want. I am very happy with my purchase and feel like I know the insiders' secrets.

Awesome fountains!
I compared several fountain making books, and found this one to have the most complete information and the best instructions. The step by step photos are better than the drawn diagrams found in other books, because they tell the exact sequence of events in building a tabletop fountain. I also found this book to have the most useable projects ( I was not interested in outdoor fountains and the plumbing challenges inherent in making them). I have already made 3 awesome fountains, the most ambitious being the copper leaf fountain, which sounds like music and drowns out the noise of traffic that I used to hear in my living room. I had no trouble putting it together following the photos and directions. When it splashed too much, I found the remedy in the book, too. The author's lists are amusing and informative (example: 10 ways to hide the cord, how to quiet noisy pumps, and 10 ways to know you need "fountains anonymous") . The book describes a fountain as an "oasis connecting you to nature." That pretty much sums up my feeling when I go home after a busy day and hear throughout my house the endless sound of falling water.Because the projects vary in difficulty, I would highly recommend this book, no matter how much fountain building experience you've had.