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I like having the seating adjustable. Some friends of mine in Austin put one in with a beautiful concrete bench wrapping around half of it and nobody bothered to keep in mind the temperature of the fire or the direction of the smoke Anyone who dares to sit down burns up faster than they can get asphyxiated by the smoke.

I am now working with them to install a hood for limiting the heat to peoples shins and directing the smoke out of peoples faces

That's not a bad idea. You can see the fire pit/shin burner below. I also would have pushed for curved seating instead of the sharp 90 corner but it was not my house. If we were to add a partial second course and a partial third course, higher on the seating side, how would you suggest we do it? I was thinking of just buying a sack of SBC, mortaring them, and then putting a light coat on the inside (you can see that that was what was done previously.

KVR said

That is exactly what I had in mind. I will present all three ideas to them and see if they even use it enough to bother modifying it. Also, I think that the tractor tire rim might corrode nicely with the fire pit so we've got options. I've got a MIG welder at my buddy's old shop so I may get it out and start tinkering. The neighbors put up a nice horizontal slat fence with black powder coated posts so I think that the black would be preferable to SS.

I like the idea but something cheap and neat is utilizing pallets. We have a local place to get them for free and this is a really neat setup Build the fire pit with like so,

and then follow up with a sofa kit,

Its a easy, cheap and neat setup. What you think?