Luxury Housing Trends & Home Improvement Ideas

Water features are a great way to add peace and serenity to a yard (or just give some koi a place to live), but all the digging, irrigating, and landscaping that goes with installing a pond can be tedious (and expensive). Here’s an alternative:

Raised, self-contained ponds that sit on top of the ground instead of in it.

This 200-gallon cedar pond is from Coastal Pond Solutions and features a sturdy construction that lets you rest plants around it and even sit on the benches. Another perk is that it’s supposed to offer fish more protection from predators than typical in-ground ponds.

“This pond design offers fish a high level of protection against predators not found in typical in-ground ponds. Once the pond plants are established around the perimeter, the fish can hide under the benches, behind the plants.”

$995 Canadian