6mm 'The Mini-Hive' Flat-Pack Fire Pit — Starry Night Pattern
The Hive, scaled for smaller spaces. Same hexagonal geometry. Same starry night pattern. Same engineering.
Not every garden has room for our full-size Hive. The Mini-Hive brings the same hexagonal form, the same laser-cut Starry Night wall pattern, and the same 6mm BlueScope REDCOR® Corten construction — scaled to 660mm across and sitting 290mm tall for smaller patios, courtyards, and more intimate entertaining spaces.
The Starry Night effect
The hexagonal walls are laser-cut with a dense pattern of stars at varying sizes and spacing. Unlit, it reads as a deliberate architectural detail — a sculptural piece in a space that might otherwise struggle to carry a full-size fire pit. Lit, it transforms. Firelight projects through every opening, scattering points of light across the ground, across nearby walls, across the faces of whoever's sitting around it.
In a smaller space, this effect actually hits harder — the projected star pattern fills a courtyard or intimate patio in a way that makes the space feel bigger and more alive, not smaller.
Why the base matters
Almost every fire pit on the market eventually warps. Repeated heating and cooling cycles distort the base, the floor sags or domes, the geometry goes wrong, and within a few years you're staring at a piece of expensive deformed steel.
We spent serious R&D time solving this. We tested gauges thicker than 6mm — they didn't fix the problem. We tested base layouts, support patterns, expansion-relief geometries. The design we landed on is our own, proprietary, and it works. The Mini-Hive doesn't warp out of shape across normal residential fire-pit use. The base stays flat. The geometry stays true. The pit you light tonight will sit the same way ten years from now.
Warped geometry on a hexagonal pit is immediately visible — symmetry is unforgiving. Ours holds
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6mm Corten — the right material for fire
Corten weathering steel is the natural choice for a fire pit. It handles repeated heating and cooling without the coating-failure issues that plague painted steel — there's no paint to bubble, blister, peel, or off-gas the first time you build a serious fire. The steel develops its protective rust patina over the first few weeks outdoors and from there, it's effectively maintenance-free.
At 6mm thick, the Mini-Hive is in a different category to mass-market fire pits sold at 3mm or thinner. Heavier-gauge steel holds heat longer (better radiant warmth on a cold night), retains structural integrity through countless burn cycles, and reads as architectural rather than disposable. 350MPa BlueScope REDCOR® steel. Same grade specified in bridges and public sculpture.
Sized for intimate spaces
At 660mm across the top and 290mm tall, the Mini-Hive is deliberately scaled for:
- Smaller patios and courtyards where a full-size Hive would overwhelm the space
- Townhouses, apartments, and unit courtyards with limited outdoor area
- Intimate entertaining — two to six people around the fire, not a crowd
- Low-seating setups — the 290mm height sits naturally with camp chairs, benches, beanbags, and low outdoor lounge furniture
It's the fire pit for the space where you love the idea of the full Hive but don't quite have the room for it — a statement piece scaled for a place where statement pieces usually don't fit.
Cooks brilliantly
The Mini-Hive's open top and stable geometry make it an excellent cooking surface. Pair it with our Tramontina cooking swords — Argentinian-style skewers designed to push into the ground around the fire and cook slow-roast meat over open coals — for a complete outdoor cooking setup in a compact footprint.
Flat-pack — here for winter, gone for summer
The Mini-Hive arrives flat-packed — slots together without tools, and disassembles just as fast when you don't need it.
For smaller spaces, the flat-pack advantage matters even more than it does on our larger pits. Through summer or when you're hosting differently, the Mini-Hive stows flat against a wall or in the shed — giving you back the footprint entirely. Same pit, zero visual weight when it's not in use.
It also ships in a compact carton rather than a large assembled piece, and comes through narrow side gates, up stairs, and around tight property access that would challenge a pre-assembled fire pit.
Built right, scaled down
- Flat-pack construction — slots together, no tools required
- 660mm across the top — sized for smaller spaces and intimate groups
- 290mm tall — low-seating friendly, sight-line correct for relaxed entertaining
- Sits on feet with built-in drainage — won't pool water in the bowl between uses
- 6mm Corten plate — same heavy-gauge steel used across our premium range
- Australian made — fabricated by our team at Somersby, NSW
