Landscaping Ideas: 10 Fire Pits, for an Instant Outdoor Living Room - Gardenista

Landscaping Ideas: 10 Fire Pits, for an Instant Outdoor Living Room - Gardenista

A fire pit is pretty much all you need to create an outdoor room. For landscaping ideas, we’ve rounded up 10 of our favorite fire pits, including some from members of our Architect and Designer Directory, as inspiration.
Carmel Valley, California
The concrete and steel fire pit is landscape architect Bernard Trainor’s design, creating an outdoor living space for house by architects Sagan Piechota in California’s Carmel Valley. For more of this project, see Landscape Architect Visit: The California Life, Outdoor Living Room Included.
Photograph by Joe Fletcher courtesy of Sagan Piechota Architecture.
Photograph by Scott Lewis Landscape Architecture.
Landscape architect Scott Lewis ringed a fire pit with four Serene Lounge Chairs from Henry Hall in a drought-tolerant landscape in the Napa Valley.
Napa Valley
Sonoma, California
Photograph by Caitlin Atkinson.
In a meadow designed by landscape architecture firm Terremoto, boulders of Sonoma fieldstone provide a ring of seating around the Corten-steel-edged fire pit. For more of this project, see Landscape Architect Visit: Terremoto Creates Serenity in Sonoma.
Photograph by Susan Teare courtesy of JMMDS.
Garden designer Julie Moir Messervy designed a series of terraced spaces for her own garden on a sloped property in Vermont.
Vermont Green Mountains
In Stinson Beach, a few miles north of San Francisco, Marin-based Blasen Landscape Architecture created a family retreat that welcomes the sea without capitulating to its harsh demands.
Photograph by Marion Brenner courtesy of Blasen Landscape Architecture.
Stinson Beach, California
Massachusetts-based landscape architect Matthew Cunningham designed a fire pit patio made of big slabs of reclaimed granite embedded in a lawn in Lamoine, Maine. For more of this project, see Landscape Architect Visit: Clamshell Alley on the Coast of Maine.
The Coast of Maine
Photograph by Matthew Cunningham.
A permeable black gravel patio surrounds the pit on a Texas mesa, where landscape architects Studio Outside took advantage of the site’s best features–sunlight, breezes, and panoramic views of distant mountains.
Texas Hill Country
Photograph by Arlen Kennedy and Robert Reck, courtesy of Studio Outside.
For more of this project, see Landscape Architect Visit: Postcard Views in Texas Hill Country, by Studio Outside.
Maine Coastline
Photograph by Trent Bell courtesy of Whitten Architects.
On the oceanfront in Scarborough, Maine, Whitten Architects partnered with landscape architect Todd Richardson to create a strong connection between the house and landscape. For more of this project, see The Ultimate Indoor-Outdoor House on 36 Acres in Coastal Maine.
LA-based designer Judy Kameon created a decomposed granite pad to surround a fire pit, creating a patio seating area in a Studio City garden.
Los Angeles
Photograph by Laure Joliet.
Seattle, Washington
Photograph courtesy of Belathée Photography.
An outdoor lounge area has a fire pit as a focal point in a garden in Bellevue, Washington’s Clyde Hill neighborhood. For more, see Sleekness in Seattle: Modern Garden, Midcentury House.
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