Garden Water Mill

My wife wanted a water feature for the garden as she loves the sound of running water. I used a builders bucket an upside down pant pot in the bottom I fixed the small water pump to the top of the plant pot pushing the intake pipe threw the plant pot then filled with gravel to the top then filled up with Water. I the fed threw to the top of the sluice that runs over the wheel.

I started buy deciding what size wheel would be needed. Then began cutting out with my scroll saw

The Water Mill building was based on a photo of one I loved the look of on the internet. The simple wall and roof shapes I cut out with a fine toothed hand saw, and window holes I cut out using the scroll saw.

Finishing the painting and added window frames and window boxes. To create the stone effect I used sand and grit glued on with apoxy resin then painted when it had set the whole mill is on a perspex base to stop damp rising. I use sponge painted in the window boxes and to create shrubs.