See part 6 here This area of the house was a bit of a mess in terms of layout. The original owners evidently hadn’t planned much for it, or at least not planned well. In addition to the weak barbecue setup I replaced, they had a propane fire pit, but it was way out in…

After completing the main kitchen area–roof, main cabinet and pizza oven (see part 5)–it was time to move on to phase 2: the side cabinet. I took some time off before starting this because I was pretty sick of working on it at this point and had to catch up on all the work I’d…

Really I was building this while building the main cabinet (see part 4), but it made sense to separate it into its own deal here. We wanted a wood-fired pizza oven because why would we not, but my concern was proximity to the house, ie I wasn’t particularly comfortable having a 600+ degree fire a…

Once the cabinet and counter base were framed (see part 3), it was time to start wrapping it all up in the finish surfaces–faux stone veneer and porcelain tile. In both cases I used 1/2″ cement board as the substrate. This is simple enough–just cover the entire surface with it and attach with cement board…

Once the roof was finished (see part 2 here), it was time to start framing the main cabinet. This was going to be an L-shaped affair that would house a propane barbecue (reused), burner (reused), sink, paper towel dispenser, trash can drawer, Traeger, refrigerator, and some storage drawers. It would also have an access panel…

See part 1 Phase 1 of the build was a roof to provide protection from both sun and rain/snow. If I was going to make the effort to build an outdoor kitchen, I wanted to be able to use it any day of the year–when it was blazing hot in August, or when there was…

This was a massive project so I’m going to break it into a few phases to be more digestible and less daunting for me to assemble it. The background: We had an area behind the house that had an existing minimalist barbecue counter but was also a southwest exposure, so it was blazing hot and…