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The thing that I have found it is gives a chance to be REALISTICALLY creative. Sometimes our minds and the actual terrain do nto match like we think. The other things is it givest ime to consider each element and it's palcement. Even moving the stream bed a half a foot or a waterfall a few feet can really affect how we as people get to interact with it. Having said that, I have a pond rith in front of the house in a garden, it is about 2000 gallons, eventaully it is oging to get another layer or two of blocks and go up to about 4000 gallons. If I had it to do over or had used a program, it would have looked better, sounded better, and been closer to the patio for us to enjoy. I could have fed the koi right form the patio. Eventually I will move it all, or add a cascading second level, but having it right in the first place would have really increased our enjoyment of it.With the next pond I put it on a drawing program, and wound up with an awesomeand creative idea that is going to rock and make people's jaws drop, but without that program I never would have dreamed it up. With the new design we are going to be walking on water, literally, and all fry will be protected, because I incorporated the design I had in mind for a patio and a pool into it. Now it all is going to fit together like a giant puzzle over time and the finished product is going to be magazine stuff. So my suggestion, use a program and do it well beforehand to give yourself time to think in new and other elements and incorporate them. The other thing I found is that by incorporating the things we wanted together(my wife son and I), and giving everyone a chance to voice an opinion, with a little creativiy we all got what we wanted, AND, the coolest part, due to doing it so the things build on one another, reduced the final cost by about 35-40%, and the labor by almost half.
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