Triage For Buying Furniture and Fire Pits

These days, many homeowners have a limited budget to spend on outfitting their yard with fire pits as well as the more tried-and-true furniture. Now, there is nothing new about fire itself. What's innovative is putting it in a pit.

As you budget, a little triage may be in order. (Triage is often restricted to medical situations but we'll use it here to refer to the prioritizations that homeowners do when they are budgeting for things like fire pits and other furniture.) When something becomes a household name, it's likely that that thing has been found pragmatically useful by generation upon generation of people. Could they be wrong? A statistics boffin would tell you it's not impossible, but it is very unlikely.

Fire pits and other furniture are no exception to this guideline. Chairs and tables are good perennials. On that you can rely. Another sign of the general acceptance of a type of furniture is representation in the world of the dollhouse. A dollhouse is an idealized, imagined version of a regular house. So there is a winnowing down of what accessories are made. The newer and more esoteric things will not be found for dollhouses. As an example, try checking a search engine some time for a "dollhouse chair," and then for a "dollhouse fire pit." There are dollhouse fireplaces, but no dollhouse fire pits. Also no dollhouse chimineas.

To bring this around to triage, it's a question of how useful something will be, and when. What are the odds that you'll find yourself in the middle of summer, sitting on the cement, with your back against the outside wall of your house and your drink resting on the ground, warming your hands at your pit and wondering, "What have I done??"

Some clever designers have also attempted to relieve this anxiety by inventing a table with an embedded fire pit. It's a good idea. It depends how strict you want to be about the dollhouse rule. You could stick with regular tables for now, and try back in a few years. Who knows - a dollhouse table with an embedded pit could be the Tickle-Me Elmo of 2015.

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