How to make a firepit in your backyard

We are weekend warriors. And, by "we", I mean my husband. I am an assistant. The kind of assistant who'll run beers outside every hour or so while drinking wine indoors.

On Thursday night I showed my husband a home made fire-pit on pinterest. After trying to explain pinterest to him for a half hour, he finally shut me up by deciding to just build me the pit in the back yard.

We chose a corner of our lot that is close to our deck and gets very little sun so the grass doesn't grow well- even in the summer months. The total area of the fire-pit is about 18'x18'.

We purchased the fire-pit stones from Lowes. We chose to purchase them individually instead of the ready made kit because we saved $100 and got the exact stones from the kit except that we added one extra layer making just a bit taller.

We bought the barrier to go under the rock and the surrounding river rock from our local rock plant. We chose to do a neutral tan color since we recently re-surfaced our deck in a sand color.

And, ta da!

Total cost of the project: $258 Fire pit stones $100 Surrounding river rock $92 Barrier: $36 Edging (this one) : $30
Now we have the perfect area for summer smores parties and glasses of cabernet by the fire.

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