Hey hey hey!  Did you have a wonderful weekend?  We actually had a slumber party with some high school friends.  Even though they only live about an hour away, we see each other about once a year.  When we do get together, the four hours we spend chatting is never enough time so a slumber party it was and it was magnificent.  Anyway, they asked about Navasota and want to visit.  The mister shared our last DIY project and I realized I had forgotten to share it with y’all!  That means today is how to build an inexpensive firepit fit for a farmhouse!

How to build an inexpensive firepit fit for a farmhouse!

Back when we had to cut down the twin 300 year old trees in the front yard, we also had the guys clear out some low limbs over on the other side of the driveway (we call it the road).  The road separates the house from the largest pasture there.  In this one spot, there are 3 trees that make you feel secluded from the open pasture so that’s where we decided to add a firepit patio.

I didn’t want anything fancy or hard to build and we couldn’t spend a lot of money because there is a long list of other things we want to do around there.  What makes this so cute and farmhouse stylish is the materials we used.  Okay, maybe it’s because it sits next to the farmhouse and its right next to the barbed wire fence and the animals but it turned out perfect for us.  Perfect because the Mister loves playing with fire, I enjoy sitting and doing nothing, the kids (that’s what we call Sherlock and Scout) love getting treats at the fence and we all love s’mores so voila – the perfect pit for us.  😉

Supplies for an easy farmhouse looking firepit area:

12 inch concrete/stone pavers

Spray Paint to mark the ground

3 foot Galvanized Fire Ring

Tamper to stamp the ground and make even (or other tools you have on hand)

Outdoor String Lights (similar)

Rustic, Farmhouse looking and cozy!

The first thing we did was clear the area of leaves, branches, weeds, etc. then stamped the ground to make it as compact as we could.  The property here is all sand so it’s very soft and not easy to do.  I initially wanted the large 24″ x 24″ tiles but they were $11 each.  The 12″ tiles were only $1.50 each so to save money we used the smaller 12″ tiles.  But after a couple of weeks of having the patio finished, it’s already wobbly in places and even though our goal was to make sure the tiles didn’t trip anyone as they moved around, they do if you don’t pick up your feet.  My advice is to go ahead and spend the extra money and use the largest tiles possible if your ground is soft.

Yay for the tractor!

We had to make about 3 trips to Lowe’s to pick up the tiles because the truck can only hold so much weight.  Each trip we got about 5o tiles at a time.  It wasn’t that bad though.  We backed up the truck, they loaded up the pallet with the tiles wrapped in plastic wrap, we drove home and took the pallet off the truck with the tractor and laid them out stamping them down as much as we could.  This is one job I’m grateful to have the tractor!  I can’t imagine picking up the tiles, putting them on a cart to check out, putting them in the truck, going home, unloading them from the truck to put into place.  No thanks!

One of the benefits to having all sand is that we didn’t have to bring in any gravel for the base of the pit.  The boss decided to leave the middle portion of the patio open (no tile) and use a galvanized steel fire ring.  I looked at several other options but thought this looked like it fit right in with the farmhouse look. will have easy clean up and will withstand the intense heat a firepit can give off.  All we had to do was place the ring in the middle and add 4 8 inch long pipes into the sand at an angle so if the fire ring got kicked it wouldn’t move.  I apologize for not taking a photo of this process!

View of firepit patio from front porch

There was a burn ban when we got finished so we weren’t able to use it so we took the time to add outdoor string lights for fabulous ambiance.  Like I mentioned before, we wanted to keep the cost down and used cut up logs as seats.  That only lasted a couple of days.  Now we use the logs as tables and brought over the chairs from the back porch.  The logs are rustic and farmhousy but not conducive to sitting on your rumpus for longer than 30 minutes.

Well that’s how to build an inexpensive firepit fit for a farmhouse!  I love how it’s all snuggled in the trees.  And the fire ring itself is low enough to really get in there and burn those marshmallows or hotdogs and the patio is large enough to get back so you don’t burn your face off when the fire is too hot.  Yes, I’m talking to the mister/pyromaniac.  Soon you’ll see the full finished patio with the chairs when I show off what we added for a buffet type table on the side.  So cute!

 

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