Sometimes Our Creativity Is Just For Fun

You may know us simply as professionals in the architecture field, so we wanted to give you a glimpse at the side of us you haven’t seen before. We have an incurable love of creativity and are not at all afraid of getting our hands dirty. It’s important to us to discover and design creative uses for things and materials that we rescue from neglect. We can see potential value in lots of things most folks don’t consider highly valuable.

To show you what we mean, from time to time, we’ll be sharing some projects that we designed and built ourselves, not for clients, but just for fun — one of the many things we do in our “spare” time.

Some empty space, dirt and rocks – that’s what others see. We saw the perfect spot for a fire pit, so we set to work, moving each piece of material ourselves.

Yes, that’s Hope getting down and dirty into her creation! The fire pit was made from old Belgian blocks found on the property and re-purposed for our vision. The backyard had been sloped, so we terraced it into distinct levels. We built retaining walls from the large rocks that were conveniently already on site. Hope and her husband, Lee, hand-placed each patio block and stone with love and a joyous spirit of the fun of creating something new.

Our fire pit is round and sunken below the level of the patio. The blocks are at same level as the patio. The design of the fire pit showcases lines radiating from it, as rays from the sun.
At the next higher level is a pond (not shown here), because we liked the play on juxtaposing fire and water.

This project has been ongoing from the last 5 years. What can we say — we just don’t get as much “spare time” as we’d like!

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