I am soooooo excited to share this project with you all. My dad and I made this diy garden fountain together for my birthday present a few years ago. Since we moved the following January, it has been sitting in a box. I found the box and re-assembled the fountain and thought that this would be exactly the type of project that YOU all would love as much as I do! So here it goes…this tutorial is a reassembly but you can get the idea!
Here is a step by step tutorial on how to create your own DIY Garden Infinite Fountain.
Items Needed:
- Large Decorative or colored pot
- smaller cheap plastic pot that will fit inside of the first pot when upside down
- 2 cheap plastic pot drip pans (as I like to call them)
- small water pump
- drill
- small screws/nuts (1/4” by 1/2” long)
- 1/2” plastic tubing
- 1/2” plastic tubing tee
We started off with a large red plastic pot. (You want the pot to be made of something you can easily drill through.) We drilled a hole about 2 inches below the top of the pot, just below the inside lip. We simply drilled several holes next to one another, just large enough to fit the plug through from the water pump.
The cheap plastic pot used for the inside, will be flipped over inside the red pot. The pump will be inside of it. So to make sure water can get to the pump, we need to drill a bunch of holes in the cheap plastic pot (green pot) so that the water can easily get to the inside.
At this point we realized we needed a hole in the green pot for the cord of the pump to come through because our green pot fit nicely in the red pot leaving no extra room at at the bottom for the cord. So we just poked it through one of the holes in the cheap green pot! Pretty Easy.
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Comments & Reviews
imklvr says
You mustknow how much I’ve wanted a fountain…indoor or out, or both! Oh, you COULD do this for inside, couldn’t you?! Yeah, I’m gonna bookmark this. We have a patio that we are ‘furnishing’ and this will be just perfect (aka, cheap!)! Thanks, my friend..you are the best!
Cheryl says
Absolutely can be used inside! We have to keep ours outside due to dogs/little boys but it’s not messy at all if you omit those two factors from the equation! Also, R has just figure out how to plug one side with his fat little finger and make the other side shoot out at his brother! Oh goodness! :)
imklvr says
Oh, yeah, kudos to your dad, too!
Kathy Lawson says
TOO freaking cool. I have a solar pump and I’m going to do this! Its going to take some time to find the perfect pot and rocks, tho.
Sally Loeffelman says
I am so excited and glad that you did a tutorial on this awesome fountain. I have it added to my list of 10 projects for this summer. Can’t wait to get started. Thanks so much!!
Cheryl says
Thanks Sally! I’d love to see yours when you finish it! Post a picture to my facebook page if you think about it or email me one! :)
K @ Claiming Our Space says
I love this. We have been wanting a fountain for our back patio and this looks like it would fit the bill. I would love it if you would share on Tout It Tuesday! http://www.claimingourspace.com/2012/06/tout-it-tuesday-10.html
Steff says
WOOT!!! This is going to be the one project I will tackle during my Mums’ annual visit next week. We both love water, and we share similar tastes in decorations- what you created with your old man fits the bill perfectly. Ridiculously beautiful in its simplicity, just what I think we will enjoy creating and looking at. Thanks for sharing this at FlamingoToes, it couldn’t have come at a moment more perfectly suited. It’ll be yet another puzzle piece in the great project of turning concrete into paradise!
Ryan@landscaper Brisbane says
It is so nice, so creative, let see if I can get it done, do you have any extra advises?
Ann says
Such a cute fountain! I have one my hubby made for me with Terracotta pots. I love the sound of the water trickling over the rocks! Thanks for sharing!
Ann @ http://cairncottage.blogspot.com/
“Better joy in a cottage than sorrow in a palace” Spanish Proverb
Dana @ CraftedNiche says
So clever! I might need one of these for my fur-babies!
Kelsey says
Cheryl! This is wonderful! Thanks for linking up to the summer link party!
Kelsey
Sherry says
I think I have everything for this project on hand, except the tubbing. Going to Lowes this afternoon. Thanks for sharing. I totally understand the engineer thing….my father-in-law is a retired engineer, he once painted a bedroom with a half inch brush because after trying several sizes he felt that one did the best job!!
Cheryl Spangenberg says
CRACK ME UP Sherry! I totally understand! :)
geri says
HI, I know that this is an old post; but I just found your website. I’ve been looking and pinning a few to use later, and I just started!
Just a quick question for my clarification. What size is your largest pot? I have a small one, about 8 inches on my patio, and thinking something bigger would drown out our community pool pump noise. Thanks