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Outdoor Trends are Hot Especially Fire PIts

Fire pits are the latest craze in the world of outdoor living spaces. Fire pits bring an ambiance, coziness and focal point backyard spaces. According to the Las Vegas Review Journal, investing in a propane or natural gas fire pit for your home, and then accessorizing the surrounding space with less expensive objects allows homeowners to enjoy the warmth and glow of fire without breaking local burning restriction laws.

Stephanie Grotta, the lead designer for Smith & Hawken, likes the ideas of lanterns, tiki torches, fire pots and copper when it comes to including fire features in your backyard entertainment space. Grotta enjoys the ever-morphing natural patina that copper brings to fire pits. We agree and suggest a copper dome that can be placed over the fire pit to protect it from the weather, add the element of copper into your fire feature and help contain the heat produced.

Fire pits have come a long way in their design as well, from custom built fire pits, to metal and copper sculptures that contain fire. Fire pit design is an art these days and is no longer a bunch of logs tossed into a hole in the ground surrounded by rocks. To see some of these innovations in fire pit design, check out a prior blog we posted "10 Crazy Fire Pit Designs." And for all of your fire pit needs from custom fire pits, to hearths burning systems and more, check us out online.