Fire Features
05 / 05- Space Planning & Focal Point Design
- Fire Feature Type & Size Selection
- Masonry or Block Construction
- Gas Line Coordination
- Cap, Finish & Hardscape Integration
Outdoor Living & Fire Features
Outdoor Living Areas, Fire Features &
Lighting
Your backyard should be usable after 5pm and after October. We build outdoor rooms, fire features, and lighting systems that turn your yard into a space you actually live in.
Portland · Beaverton · SW Washington ·
OR LCB# 9957 · WA GCC# OLGUICL807RZ · Free Estimates
The Craft
Outside after dark. By design.
Most Portland yards go unused after dinner and dormant from October to June. That's a planning failure, not a climate problem. The right fire feature extends your usable season by months. The right lighting means your outdoor space doesn't disappear when the sun goes down. We design and build outdoor living spaces that work with Oregon's schedule, not against it.
We handle the full scope: paver seating areas, built-in fire pits, gas fire features, water features, and low-voltage landscape lighting. Everything is designed as a system the hardscape, the fire feature, and the lighting working together as a cohesive outdoor room. Coordinated with your gas and electrical trades when required, so the install is clean and the result is finished, not patched together.
Fire Feature · Gas or Wood · Built-In Design
Low-Voltage Lighting · Zone-Controlled · Integrated
Our outdoor living process covers
5core dimensions
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Space Planning & Layout
We design the outdoor room first, seating areas, traffic flow, focal points, and fire or water feature placement, before specifying any materials or fixtures.
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Fire Feature Design
Built-in fire pits, gas fire tables, or wood-burning features, sized and positioned for your space, your seating arrangement, and your local code requirements.
- §03
Landscape Lighting Design
Path lights, uplighting, downlighting, and accent lighting planned as a system, not fixture-by-fixture as an afterthought. Zone-controlled for ambiance and function.
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Trade Coordination
Gas lines and low-voltage electrical coordinated with licensed trades. We manage the sequencing so your hardscape and features finish together, not in phases years apart.
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Integrated Finish
Fire feature capped and finished in matching stone or masonry. Lighting wire managed and concealed. Every element tied into the surrounding hardscape as a completed outdoor room.
Two elements. One outdoor room.
Fire features that anchor the space and extend the season.
A well-placed fire feature isn't an accessory, it's the gravitational center of the outdoor room. We size it, plumb it, and build it into the hardscape so it reads as part of the architecture, not bolted on.
Design fire feature type, size, and placement for your seating layout
Spec gas or wood-burning build to local code
Construct fire pit or feature in stone, block, or matching masonry
Coordinate gas line installation with licensed contractor
Cap, finish, and integrate with surrounding paver or hardscape
Lighting that makes your yard work after dark.
A great lighting system doesn't announce itself. It reveals the architecture, the planting, and the path, and disappears the moment the sun comes back up.
Design lighting zones, path, accent, uplight, and downlight
Select low-voltage fixtures for longevity and energy efficiency
Trench and run wire before hardscape is finished
Install fixtures, connect transformer, and program zones
Test full system and adjust beam angles and coverage
Oregon has eight months of shoulder season. Use them.
A fire pit isn't a luxury, it's a February strategy. Good landscape lighting isn't decorative, it's the difference between a yard you use and a yard you look at through the window. We build outdoor living spaces designed for the Pacific Northwest's actual weather: long gray winters, cool evenings even in August, and shoulder seasons that can be spectacular if you're set up for them.
- Fire Pits
- Gas Fire Features
- Built-In Fire Tables
- Low-Voltage Lighting
- Path Lights
- Uplighting
- Outdoor Seating Areas
- Water Features
“A great backyard works in February.”
What goes into a finished OCL outdoor room.
Landscape Lighting
05 / 05- Zone-by-Zone Lighting Design
- Fixture Selection & Placement
- Wire Trench & Run (pre-hardscape)
- Transformer & Zone Controller Install
- System Test & Beam Adjustment