
I read an article in The New York Times, where Michael Achenbaum, the president of the Gansevoort Hotel Group was speaking about the increasing trend of decorating hotel rooftops, patios and pool decks with different outdoor fire pit tables, fireplaces and stoves, changing their traditional placement from the lobby hearth, or inside the guest rooms. [...]
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Sondra Gerber is a fashion designer, who later in her career attended welding classes because of her passion for metal art. She finds great similarity between metal work and fashion design because in both cases you can take a flat material and fabricate it into something three-dimensional. Here’s her assistance on a do-it-yourself project to [...]
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If you are looking for a way to spice up your outdoor life, no matter if this includes bundling up for a chat with a couple of close friends, or nestling on a cushioned outdoor love seat, or maybe inviting your whole gang over for s’mores and ghost stories, the solution is always the same: [...]
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The Granite Forte Fire Pit Table (“Forte” meaning “Strong” in Italian. Impressed by my Google searching skills?) is fun because you have so many options to customize. What’s neat about this fire pit is that it gives you many more options to customize than your average fire pit. The stucco base comes in 12 different [...]
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As for every item you have in your home, you need to take good care of your fireplace too, by regularly cleaning and maintaining it, if you want it to keep its beauty and functionality for a longer period of time. The first day the wood burning fireplace is brought into your house, it must [...]
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For good Feng Shui energy inside your home or office, you need to subtly balance each of the five elements of this ancient Chinese system, metal, earth, fire, water and wood, with different items that are pleasing to the eye and go well with the aesthetic of the rest of the interior décor. According to [...]
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The fire pits are made to be used outside our homes, holding fire while providing warmth, and they are meant to withstand the different weather conditions, but if we want to protect our fire pit so that it would be in perfect shape for a longer period of time, we should definitely get fire pit [...]
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As my mom used to say, “It’s all fun and games until someone gets hurt.” Fire is a great way to entertain people in the summer and cook food. But, when injures happen, fire is not a fun thing. Here’s a refresher course on some safety tips when playing with fire: Don’t leave them unattended-Fire’s [...]
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There are different types of fireplaces, indoors or outdoors, based on the fuel they use, such as wood burning, gas, gel fueled and electric fireplaces. The similarity of the electric and gel fuel fireplaces is in the cleaner energy sources they use to provide heat, and in their relative portability and easy installation. The main [...]
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The gel fuel fireplaces are free standing pieces that use gel as their fuel. They allow you to enjoy all the advantages of a fireplace without any of the mess that a wood burning model can cause. Because of this, these fireplaces can be positioned on places such as decks or patios, where a traditional [...]
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