The reason the yard gets used in October.
A fire feature is what turns a patio into a room people actually sit in — three seasons a year in New England, not two. We build fire pits, fire bowls, and hearths in natural stone, wrapped with seat walls and terrace so the whole space is designed around where people will gather, not fitted in afterward.
Designed into the room, not dropped in it
The difference between a fire pit that gets used and one that does not is almost always geometry: how far the seating sits from the fire, whether the wind carries smoke into the house, and whether there is enough terrace behind the chairs to walk past someone sitting down.
We lay the space out on site before any stone is set — seat height, circle diameter, clearances — so the finished room feels right the first evening you use it.
Built to take real fire, for real years
A fire feature is a masonry structure, not decoration. We build on a proper footing with a firebrick or steel-lined core where the heat lives, and face it in fieldstone or granite so the visible stone never takes the thermal punishment directly. That is why ours do not spall and crack after two winters.
Gas, wood, or a fire bowl — we run sleeves and gas lines during the build, so nothing has to be dug up later.
Seat walls, kitchens, and the whole outdoor room
Around the fire, the same crew builds the seat walls, the grill surround, the steps, and the terrace lighting — so the stone matches, the joints line up, and there is one company responsible for how the room reads as a whole.
Towns We Serve
Fire Features & Outdoor Living across Wellesley, Weston, Newton, Lexington, Lincoln, Needham, Bolton, Chestnut Hill, Marlborough, Sudbury, Concord, Dover — and the rest of MetroWest & Greater Boston.
Questions
Fire Features & Outdoor Living, answered.
A hand-built natural-stone fire pit generally runs $4,000 to $12,000+ depending on size, stone, whether it is wood or gas, and the seat walls and terrace built around it. A fire bowl or gas feature set into a larger terrace is priced with that scope.
Wood gives you the fire people actually want to sit around; gas gives you instant on-and-off and no smoke management. We build both — and if you are undecided, we can run the gas line during construction so the option stays open.
Requirements vary by town and by whether the feature is gas-fired. We handle the local checks as part of the project and build to the clearances your town and the fire department expect.
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