Fire Features & Outdoor Living in Rye, New Hampshire.

A large share of our New Hampshire work is executing drawings for landscape architects — reading elevations, holding the specified batter and joint, and flagging a conflict before it becomes a change order. Much of it in ongoing collaboration with Jonathan Keep Landscape Design.

Rye sits in Rockingham County, and most weeks we are somewhere in this pocket of NH Seacoast — which means shorter travel, faster site visits, and a crew that already knows how ground behaves around here.

We buy from New England quarries and yards we have used for years, and we hand-pick rather than take a pallet sight unseen. For Rye, that usually means matching color and texture to the shingled oceanfront estates and refined coastal cottages already on the street.

Rye holds the most valuable coastline in New Hampshire — salt, wind, and storm surge dictate how every wall and terrace here is founded and detailed.

The same crew builds the seat walls, the grill surround, the steps, and the terrace — in Rye Beach, Straw’s Point, and Rye Harbor and across town — so the stone matches and one company owns how the finished room reads.

A fire feature is what stretches a Rye yard from two usable seasons to three. We lay the space out on site first — seat height, circle diameter, how far the chairs sit from the flame, and which way the wind carries smoke across rocky Atlantic shoreline, salt marsh, and low coastal woods — because geometry is what decides whether a fire pit gets used or ignored.

Only once that reads right do we set stone, wrapping the fire with seat walls and terrace so the whole space is designed around where people actually gather.