Slate fire pit area

This is exactly what your backyard needs!

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.” (Si hortum in bibliotheca habes, deerit nihil.)” Marcus Tullius Cicero

Do you like back-breaking manual labor that makes you curse the day you started a project? Then, BOY, do I have the renovation for you! Enter, our back patio project. We knew we would eventually need to do a complete removal and re-installation of our back patio and walk way when we moved here. The previous owners had taken a curious "artistic direction" that truly made no sense. They appeared to have DIY installed it using discarded interior bricks, random bits of poured cement, and what…

Our stacked stone fire pit made from the left over stone from our patio!

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This dry-stone fire pit area is surrounded by natural stone benches so friends and family have a place to hang out.

Here is a shot of the new flagstone patio with a new firepit. The firepit is fully lined with firebrick with a custom laid floor. We installed a gas starter through the floor for easy lighting. The outside is stoned with Fieldstone stack and capped with flagstone. The homeowners look forward to sitting around a fire and listening to the nearby water feature. See photos in my photostream of the waterfeature that is also in this backyard.

This tutorial shows how to make a flagstone patio

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I just want the flagstone and rock, love it.