A pile of old and broken bricks - Fhm/Getty Images If you've got a pile of old bricks sitting around from a past project, or maybe you've stumbled across some at a salvage yard, don't let them go to ...

The first step to making your own fire pit is to dig out a dedicated space in your yard for the fire pit base. The following are the fire pit dimensions we used for this project. A 3-ft.-diameter ...