The kitchen nobody wants to leave
A grill on a patio is a grill on a patio. A backyard kitchen is somewhere to stand with a drink while somebody cooks, and that is the difference between a quick dinner outside and a fun Saturday night.
We have been building custom outdoor kitchens in St. Louis since 2001. The same team draws it and builds it, so nothing gets lost between the plan and the ground. You see it in 3D first, you agree on the materials, and then our own crews put it in.
Outdoor kitchen benefits
An outdoor kitchen is the cheapest room you will ever add to the house, and the one that changes the most about how you use the yard. It gives you the comforts of the indoor kitchen without the trip back and forth, it turns the patio design you already have into a place people stay, and it holds its value the way good masonry does.
The cook stays with everyone
No more missing the evening because you are inside at the stove. Outdoor cooking works when the kitchen faces the people.
A real room, not a grill corner
Counter space, storage and seating turn a patio into usable square footage you did not have before.
A built-in hub for gatherings
Every party finds the food. Build the kitchen well and you have decided where the party goes.
It adds to the property
Masonry, stone and stainless read as permanent to a buyer, and you get the use of it in the meantime.
Custom outdoor kitchen design
A straight run is often right against a house wall. An L gives you a prep side and a cooking side, which is what most families settle on. A grill island with bar seating makes the kitchen the centerpiece, and it needs the room to earn that. We size the layout to your patio and to how you actually cook, not to a catalog page. But if you're looking for a catalog model, we have that too ...
Counters are granite, quartzite, natural stone or a dense concrete paver, all of which take heat and weather here. Cabinet boxes are masonry or stainless, finished in stone, brick veneer or stucco to match the house. Never interior cabinetry moved outside. Then we build around what you want to cook on, and a fire pit nearby is what keeps people out there once the plates are cleared.
We will talk you out of anything you would use twice a year. Everything else is fair game.
Hear it from the people who cook there
A couple of minutes with a client, talking about what changed about how they host.
Professional installation process
Four steps, one coordinator, and you know the number and the schedule before anything is torn up. Utilities get handled as part of the project rather than left to you to chase, and we plan the outdoor lighting at the same time so the kitchen is usable after dark.
Consultation and design
We walk the patio, talk through the vision, then draw it in 3D.
Materials and proposal
Samples on the ground where the counter will sit, appliances specified, and a real number with the scope written out.
Build and utilities
Masonry, counters and appliances go in, with the gas, electric and water coordinated as part of the job.
Walkthrough and care
We fire everything up with you and hand over the care instructions.
What people ask before they start
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And the surrounding St. Louis area. If you are not sure whether we come out your way, call and ask.
Already built out and just want it taken care of?
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An outdoor kitchen changes where your family spends the summer. Start with a walk of the patio. We will talk through the layout, the materials and the number before you decide anything, and we schedule around what works for you.