Fire is a warm and inviting element, great for cooking and late nights sitting out on your porch or patio! Including a fire feature in your outdoor living space allows you to enjoy the outdoors even when the weather is chilly.

How to Use Fire in Your Backyard

Fire serves various purposes, from entertaining to basic warmth. How you want to enjoy and use fire will affect the type of feature you choose: permanent or portable, fire pit or fireplace. The kind of living space you have, or want to create, also affects how your fire feature will be incorporated into the design. These elements are not one-size-fits-all, and we at Eagleson Landscape build fire features based on our clients’ specific needs and desires.

Placing a Fire Pit and Fireplace

A fire pit or fireplace is more than just a structure of rocks. How it fits in your outdoor space is important, and you want to use something as interesting as fire to the greatest advantage. Positioning is important; we like to place fires so that they are visible from your house, and make sure they are downwind so smoke has less chance of blowing into the house or seating area. Smoke keeps mosquitoes away, but that goes for people too!

Building an Outdoor Fireplace or Fire Pit

If you want your outdoor living space to feel more like a living room, a fireplace brings a sense of the inside outside. A fireplace can be built from a kit, or it can be custom-made. Veneers with cinder-block cores are also available. Fire pits are for more open-air spaces. They can also be built from a kit or custom-made, and come in many shapes and sizes. Both fireplaces and fire pits can be wood-burning or set up to be gas-lit. For the occasional fire, consider a large portable fire pit over a permanent option.

Have questions about setting your backyard on fire? Call us at (317) 997-4803 or send us an email.