These are just ideas for you to use in making your own fire pit. Safety- Remember, we are not fire pit professionals. Unlike our pre-formed block fire pit, we were using rocks of different shapes and sizes that we could find and that’s pretty much it!.We got resourceful and found large stones at the creek behind the house and just stacked them in a way that created a fire barrier as well as had a way for air to get into the pit. The house is rather rural so we needed to build it without having to run to a home improvement store. We thought it would be great to build a decent pit at the homestead that everyone could enjoy and was more permanent. Traditionally the fire was built from stacking wood in an old metal barrel.Īfter building our own fire pit at home we had a epiphany.
One source of entertainment for us has been building a fire in the evenings. Last fall we went on our annual vacation to the family mountain homestead. It is actually the most popular post on my blog because it’s thrifty and super easy to build. Several years ago we built a fire pit for our backyard for around $50 just using blocks from our local home improvement store.
You can build your own backyard fire pit using free materials from the great outdoors. You don’t need a patio designed by a landscape architect to enjoy one. I want to help you make one for free.Īnyone can have a fire pit for enjoyment. Fire has a way of bringing people together. I don’t know what happens around a fire pit but it almost seems magical. My favorite way to bring my family together is gathering around a blazing, warm fire pit.
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