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Sunken Fire Pit with Built-In Benches

No. 90 Fire & Spa · Colonial

Sunken Fire Pit with Built-In Benches

Set before a colonial Georgian brick home with black shutters and boxwood hedges, a circular sunken fire pit incorporates curved built-in benches and flagstone paving beside brick walkways.

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Design notes

Colonial design is symmetry and restraint. Look for a central axis from the back door, matched beds and hedges either side, bluestone or brick terraces with tight joints, and white or black picket and post-and-rail fences. Planting is disciplined — boxwood, hydrangea, holly, dogwood and shade trees — and furniture is classic: teak benches, Windsor chairs, a market umbrella. Georgian brick, clapboard and shingle houses all suit it.

What to look for

  • Conversation-distance seating all the way around
  • Setback from structures, fences and branches
  • A dry, lit path back to the house
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