Our Little Life: DIY Backyard Brick Fountain

We are project fanatics. We love a good project we can enjoy as a couple and as family so when I fell in love with the sound of the fountains at Lowe's it was EASY to predict our next family project.

We decided to make our own water fountain out of bricks we already had lying around. This is a great project for up-cycling unused items in your yard!

So let's get started! All of our items were purchased at our local Lowe's. You can use any variation of these items that you would like to give your fountain a special touch!

What we used:

• red/charcoal colored retaining wall style blocks (12"x4" in size)

• A round MacCourt 9 gallon high density pond liner or "plantainer"

• 2- 1.5" PVC pieces sold at Lowe's precut in 2 foot long sections

• 2 PVC elbow fittings, also 1.5"

• 1 roll of 1.5" black plastic, flex tubing

• Submersible pond pump (size medium when shopping the garden section at Lowe's)

• 1 bag of Egg Rocks

• 1 bag of White Rocks

We started by digging a small hole exactly the size of our plantainer or pond liner. And then a small "trench" 2 foot long on the back side of our liner hole to conceal our PVC.

As shown:

Next,

We drilled a hole for our PVC at the top of our plantainer rim. Pictured is PVC inserted into plantainer and resting in our trench we dug previously. We also used this hole and trench to conceal our pumps electrical cord.

Using elbow fitting to connect a vertical PVC at the back end of our horizontal PVC as pictured below.

As you can see in the picture above we have already placed our bricks in a circle around our pond plantainer. We left a gap between the plantainer and the brick that is approximately 3 inches. This will later be concealed with small decorative rocks.

Finally you are ready to stack your bricks and get creative! We added an extra row of bricks on the ground in a half moon shape on the back side of our fountain to help support our masterpiece!

Once you have created your ideal fountain shape, add tubing from your PVC to your fountain starting point. We chose our water to trickle from the very center at the top of our highest peak.

Once you have decided where your water will start it is now time to decide how your water will fall! We used our egg rock and white rock to add color and small dams throughout the brick staggered fountain to give it a subtle trickle effect as well as a steady water fall stream from the center.