If you love fall evenings in Sudbury, MA, but you don’t love the chill in the air, it could be time to look into adding an inviting fire pit or outdoor fireplace to your landscape. In fact, a fire feature can serve as a transformative focal point that completes your backyard design.
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Placement of Your Fire Feature
An outdoor fireplace or fire pit can be an amazing addition to your backyard, one that you won’t only use on chilly fall nights. A landscape professional can recommend the perfect spot for your new fire feature, based on the following factors:
Within the patio: When you place the fire pit outdoor fireplace in the patio design, it can be part of the overall outdoor living space close to your house. One of the primary advantages of positioning the fire feature close to the house can be the lovely view you see from inside. Watching the crackling fire and those gathered around it can entice you to join the fun.
Your landscape contractor can build a fireplace that looks made of rustic stone, for example, to blend well with nearby patio pavers and exterior style of your home, or you might prefer something more sleek and modern. A rectangular shaped fire feature could reflect the long, modular shape echoes the clean lines of your home or your modern style sensibilities.
A fire feature in its own space: If you want the outdoor fireplace to take center stage, have a landscape professional position this fire feature away from the patio but connected by a wide walking stone. This design can make the fireplace feel more like a destination and a separate outdoor feature.
When you add a retaining wall to the perimeter of the fire feature, the wall can increase the destination feel and add more seating by the fire. With wide stone steps to access the outdoor fireplace, the area can feel gracious and inviting.
Outdoor Fireplaces for Large and Small Spaces
Since fire pits and outdoor fireplaces can be built to a size that works for your space, you have more options with the more space you have. For small courtyard areas and backyards of limited space, a fire pit in the corner may be preferred, while a larger landscape could accommodate a more majestic look for an outdoor fireplace, perhaps with more than one hearth and even a pizza oven.
The vertically built outdoor fireplace can be made to draw the eye upward and increase the feel of the small outdoor space, tricking your eye into seeming as if the outdoor fireplace is larger than it really is. Also, the tall height can create a distinct focal point in the yard where the other features contribute to the aesthetic appearance of the fire feature.
Outdoor fireplaces for expansive yards are usually ideally proportional to the space. This can mean a large fireplace with a complementary retaining wall where each side of the wall holds a delightful water fountain spilling into matching troughs below. An assessment of the space and proportions will be made as too small and the fireplace can seem diminutive, and too large, it can overtake the space.
An outdoor fireplace can create a unique space for entertaining, relaxing, and even working from home. It might become that one outdoor feature that you use consistently, throughout the seasons.
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