{"id":5673,"date":"2015-04-01T07:44:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T07:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paloform.com\/news\/outdoor-fire-pits-continue-to-grow-in-popularity-asla\/"},"modified":"2023-08-22T13:05:01","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T13:05:01","slug":"outdoor-fire-pits-continue-to-grow-in-popularity-asla","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/paloform.com\/ca\/news\/outdoor-fire-pits-continue-to-grow-in-popularity-asla\/","title":{"rendered":"Outdoor Fire Pits continue to grow in popularity \u2013 ASLA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The American Society of Landscape Architects conducts an annual Residential Landscape Architecture Trends Survey amongst its members. This year\u2019s survey had 581 respondents and revealed the following results:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Top ten project types with the expected highest consumer demand:<\/strong><br>\u2022 Native plants (85 percent)<br>\u2022 Native\/adapted drought-tolerant plants (83 percent)<br>\u2022 Food\/vegetable gardens (79 percent)<br>\u2022 Fire pits\/fireplaces (78 percent)<br>\u2022 Low-maintenance landscapes (78 percent)<br>\u2022 Permeable paving (77 percent)<br>\u2022 Drip\/water-efficient irrigation (74 percent)<br>\u2022 Rain gardens (74 percent)<br>\u2022 Lighting (72 percent)<br>\u2022 Rainwater\/gray water harvesting (71 percent)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Top outdoor design elements:<\/strong><br>Fire pits\/fireplaces \u2013 78.0%<br>Lighting \u2013 72.0%<br>Grills \u2013 63.0%<br>Outdoor furniture \u2013 63.0%<br>Seating\/dining areas \u2013 63.0%<br>Wireless\/internet connectivity \u2013 60.0%<br>Planters, sculptures, and garden accessories \u2013 55.0%<br>Counter space \u2013 53.0%<br>Outdoor heaters \u2013 46.0%<br>Stereo systems \u2013 45.0%<br>Movie\/TV\/video theaters \u2013 38.0%<br>Utility storage \u2013 38.0%<br>Sinks \u2013 37.0%<br>Refrigerators \u2013 35.0%<br>Outdoor cooling systems (including fans) \u2013 29.0%<br>Showers\/baths \u2013 27.0%<br>Hammocks \u2013 20.0%<br>Bedrooms\/sleeping spaces \u2013 9.0%<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Outdoor fire pits once again rank very highly in both categories \u2013 a good indicator of our continued love affair with the primordial campfire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Visit ASLA&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.asla.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7275,"template":"","categories":[30],"class_list":["post-5673","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fire-pits"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paloform.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/5673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paloform.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paloform.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paloform.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paloform.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paloform.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paloform.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}