Outdoor Fireplace Contractor for New-Construction Backyards

A fire feature is what keeps a SoCal backyard usable after sunset

Southern California days are warm, but evenings cool off fast, especially inland and closer to the coast in the fall and winter. A built-in fireplace or fire pit is what turns a patio you only use at midday into a seating area you actually gather around at night. It also gives the space a focal point. Furniture, string lights, and an outdoor kitchen all read as pieces of a room once there is a fire to sit near, instead of chairs scattered on a slab.

The difference between a fire feature that looks built-in and one that looks bought is how it meets the rest of the yard. A freestanding metal bowl set on finished pavers is an afterthought. A fireplace or fire pit designed into the hardscape, wrapped with the same stone as your seat walls and sized to the seating area around it, reads as part of the house. That only happens when the fire feature is planned with the patio and walls, not added on after everything else is poured.

One contractor for the fire feature and everything it touches

Five Stars Builders designs and builds the fire feature as part of the backyard, not as a drop-in product. We set the fireplace or pit into the hardscape, build the seat walls around it, run the gas line to it as part of the overall construction, and finish it in stone, stucco, or tile to match the rest of the space. Code clearances to structures, fences, and combustibles are planned from the start, and if your community requires it, the fire feature goes into the HOA architectural submittal with the rest of the backyard plans.