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If someone says "sit by the fire", what image plays in your mind? A cozy home fireplace with stockings hanging from the mantel? A sleek stylish fireplace in a modern home? An outdoor bonfire full frivolity? A warm campfire with toasting marshmallows?
Most people are compelled and fascinated by fire. Fire itself is a living element. It breathes and eats. It devours and cleans. It keeps us warm and dry, and at the same time, threatens to consume everything around us. It unconditionally comforts us and frightens us.
Despite its somewhat unpredictable nature, most of us will choose to have the beauty and joy of a fireplace. It's certainly easier than building an ocean and beach for your home. However, if it's just not feasible to build one for your home, you do have another choice. An outdoor fireplace design.
In some ways, outdoor fireplaces have even more possibilities than indoor ones. You have more variety of outdoor fireplace designs, like stone pits; brick pits; areas that accommodate both simple fires and grilling, cooking, or oven arenas; round, square, oval, or triangle areas, and many more.
You can go with modern, eclectic, contemporary, or traditional outdoor fireplace designs to match your yard or give it a unique and distinctive element.
Outdoor fireplaces can be used any time of year without making the house too hot. You can host wonderful outdoor events after a good summer picnic or day of skiing. The possibilities are there for all kinds of activities to build traditions, have hip gatherings, or make family events even more eventful.
If this sounds like a great idea and you want one, you'll have to check a few things first. One, obviously, you want a place in your yard that allows a certain measure of stability and won't tempt the fire to escape its bonds.
Two, you'll have to check your local building codes and regulations to make sure it's legal in your area or if you need building permits and design approvals. And three, remember that what you build won't be easily removed, so make sure you get what you want the first time.
Once it's finished, you'll have an outdoor fireplace that give you endless opportunities for enjoyment, and you can study that being called fire to your heart's desire. |
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East Desert Stone
