Ideal for entertaining with friends and family, fire pits deserve a spot in your outdoor area. Why? Bruce Fox sums it up nicely: “Just as people are always drawn to the kitchen at a party, conversations and cocktails center around the fire pit on evenings and weekends.”
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“The iron fire pit was actually the first item we purchased for our weekend home,” says New York City–based designer Kevin Dumais, describing the Litchfield, Connecticut, haven he shares with his husband, Charlie. “It found itself ideally situated at the base of a fern-covered hill behind our house, and it quickly became the focal point of our backyard.”
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