Add Warmth and Style to Your Minnesota Home with Fire Features

The Midwest climate can be unpredictable, but having a cozy fire available whenever the temperature dips ensures you make the most of your exterior space. We’ll discuss why adding a fire feature to your backyard can improve your space, explore popular fire feature options and design trends, and help you choose the right options for your home.

Why Add Fire Features to Your Backyard?

Adding a fire feature to your Minnesota backyard is both practical and picturesque. They act as cozy heat sources, naturally offer light in your backyard, and act as a gorgeous focal points. With a well-designed fire feature and adjacent lounge space, it can extend the use of your outdoor space by months. No more having to retreat inside when a chill hits.

Additionally, fire fires also boost your home value and curb appeal. Amplifying your outdoor space is an investment that you get to enjoy now and benefit from later.

Popular Fire Feature Options to Spark Connection

From classic fire pits to sculptural bowls, fire features come in every shape and style. Each one adds its own kind of magic: warmth, glow, and the perfect excuse to linger outside a little longer.

1. Modern Fire Table

The modern fire table is as simplistic as it is mesmerizing. With a simple switch or turn of a knob, you can get instant flames, ambiance, and warmth. When the table is turned off, it looks like a gorgeous accent piece. Complete with cozy seating, completed flooring, and decorative landscaping surrounding the space, you can’t go wrong.

2. Classic Stone Fire Pit

A classic stone fire pit is truly timeless. There’s something so beautiful and natural about gathering around a fire with good company. You can elevate your backyard fire pit with thoughtful design so it looks more permanent and elevated than a campfire. 

3. Outdoor Fireplace

These fire features usually utilize stones or bricks to craft a majestic fireplace and focal point that’s as useful as it is beautiful. These can easily become a focal point for your entire outdoor space, and also work perfectly alongside an outdoor kitchen. With a pavilion or pergola built over the top, the space can double as a dining area as well. A fire feature like this fireplace gives you the sounds and smell of a real wood fire without the smoke in your face!

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4. Torches, Bowls, and Urns

Sometimes, small and simple brings a huge statement to your backyard space. With torches intentionally placed, fire bowls, and even urns placed thoughtfully throughout your yard, you’ll have a living piece of art that also provides valuable light.

5. Tabletop Fire Features

In addition to more permanent fire features, there are many tabletop options as well to augment your space. Tabletop bowls and decorative candles add extra ambiance without feeling like you’re adding too much.

Fire Feature Design Trends to Turn Up the Heat

Once you’ve explored the possibilities, it’s time to start getting creative. The latest design trends focus on pairing function with artistry. Here are a few creative ways homeowners are elevating their outdoor spaces using fire features.

1. Fire + Water Combination

One of the coolest fire feature designs you can add to your outdoor space is to combine opposites. There’s something so incredibly beautiful and fascinating about the way fire and water play off one another. 

2. Fireside Lounge

Create a gathering places with a fire, tables, and comfy chairs. With a pavilion or cabana, you can semi-enclose the space enough to block out some of the sun, wind, and rain. Adding these areas offers a cozy socializing area in yards of any size.

3. Smart Fire Features

Fire features are already stunning on their own, but they get even easier to use with smart features. Gas and electric fires unlock remote control ignition, app control, automatic timers, safety sensors, and more. If your home is already equipped with smart-home systems, you can often integrate your fire features into your other backyard controls.

4. Primary Nighttime Lighting

You can make your fire features the primary soure of lighting at night - or at least, appear to be. Adding integrated lighting elements creates extra support and a gorgeous ambience in your backyard space. With floor lights, hidden lighting, and built-in lighting in the walls and surrounding areas of your space, your fire features take center stage: but you still have plenty of light to navigate safely. 

How to Choose the Right Fire Features for Your Home

If you’re hoping to add warmth and style to your Minnesota home with fire features, there are a ton of options to choose from. To help you narrow down your options and figure out how to choose the right fire feature for your home, here are a few tips to use:

• Match outdoor design to your home’s architecture and yard size
• Consider seating and space based on entertainment needs
• Plan around wind and Minnesota weather
• Determine a location that isn’t too close to other structures
• Integrate fire features with lighting, landscaping, and entertainment zones
• Get professional installation for safety, gas line routing, and drainage considerations

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With thoughtful design and expert installation, your fire feature can become the centerpiece that ties your entire backyard together: and our team can help bring that vision to life. Outdoor Innovations Landscaping offers professional design and building services for Minnesota homeowners.

Outdoor Innovations Landscaping creates elevated backyards for homeowners in Minnesota. From in-ground pools to luxurious grilling stations to outdoor living rooms, we do it all. Explore our past projects and get a quote online to make your dream backyard a reality.