how to build a brick fire pit in your backyard tutorial video whether it's a hot summer night or a cool autumn evening and outdoor bonfire is a fun an intimate way to enjoy the great outdoors building your own brick fire pit is an inexpensive addition to your backyard that'll make for many warm memories your friends and family will love gathering around the fire for drinks as more ease and conversation throughout the year ok now let's make a DIY fire pit at your backyard first prepare all tool and materials brigs decorative stone shovel and gardening shovel spray paint or other marking device paint and desired colors if you like let's start the project step one outline your fire pit lay bricks out in your desired pattern to gauge just how many you will need this example required 33 bricks but the depth width and style you choose may require more leave one layer out to mark how big of a circle you will need use spray paint or lawn chalk to mark the circle if you mark the inside of the hole you will need to widen it in the following step step two dig the hole you have to widen the hole by the width of your breaks so that they will all fit inside the desired depth of the hole was achieved first and then it was widened to the proper size step 3 place bricks and decorative stone inside lay out your bottom layer of bricks in the desired pattern fill in the area around the bricks with stone or marble keep a few handfuls aside to help level the bricks and fill in any remaining holes at the end layer the side bricks and then use some of the remaining marble stones to level out the bricks where necessary place the highest layer of bricks on top step four backfill empty holes with dirt using the dirt dug out of the hole fill in the noticeable spaces behind and between the bricks you can also fill in the empty spots with small rocks to keep dirt from falling between the bricks onto the marble step 5 paint the bricks pick up sample sizes of your favorite shades and alternate colors on every brick start by painting the bottom bricks first and then continue up the sides with your own personal pattern the paint won't be flammable but it also won't hold up forever because of the heat so this is a fairly temporary addition that will impress your guests for the first several uses all that's left to do is get a fire burning I hope you interesting with this tutorial if you enjoy the video please like and share we always open our mind for accepting any ideas and critiques so please comment thank you for watching