Many homes have fireplaces or propane stoves inside, but there’s nothing quite like enjoying a fire pit under the stars in your own backyard. On a cool night in the summer, you can cook up a feast of ...

The first step to making your own fire pit is to dig out a dedicated space in your yard for the fire pit base. The following are the fire pit dimensions we used for this project. A 3-ft.-diameter ...

With a lifetime of heating with a wood stove, burning trees and limbs blown down in storms, and some years now of testing fire pits for Popular Mechanics, I’ve learned a thing or two about starting ...

They rank among the top requested design features on American Society of Landscape Architecture surveys. Among outdoor décor renovations, “fire features” (fire pits and fireplaces) were among the top: ...

Whether you enjoy outdoor entertaining or just relaxing in your backyard, gathering around a crackling fire on a cool evening and enjoying the warm glow of fire pit is soothing. Backyard fire pits are ...