Ginkgo Leaf Studio Thanks for your question! The stone used for the actual seating surface is custom cut and honed Indiana limestone.

Ginkgo Leaf Studio Hi, thanks for your question. The grasses are Molinia arundinacea 'Skyracer'.

COASTROAD Hearth & Patio If you look at other photos of the project (
), you can see that the steel bowl is resting on river stones, with uplighting recessed into the area around the bottom.

There would be a couple of tricks to doing this in an existing slab. First, cutting a round hole in concrete is no fun. Second, getting power to the hole is easier said than done.

If you are starting from scratch, that is, dirt, then it's a piece of cake.

Ginkgo Leaf Studio Actually the bowl is not really sitting on the river stones, as it would never really be stable. Instead it is sitting on a steel ring that is then hidden by the stones.

This was a new installation so the bluestone surround was laid with a hole in the middle specifically for the river rock and the steel ring. A gravel bed was created underneath the river stones to allow for water to drain from the fire bowl. Sleeves for electricity were pre-laid before the concrete patio was poured so that we could run power to the low voltage lighting around the base of the fire bowl.

Thanks for your question!

Ginkgo Leaf Studio No problem, I can still answer your question. Those are natural cedar shake shingles, very weathered.

love2reno Oh they are! Gorgeous property.