Outdoor Kitchens designed, built and installed for Newport Beach — tiny harbour lots with nowhere to stage and salt air on every elevation. Our Los Angeles showroom serves Orange County; Newport projects are scheduled as full-day site visits.
California's outdoor kitchens are the most fully used of anywhere we build, because the season barely ends — which means they get specified as real kitchens with real appliances rather than as a grill in a counter. Coastal sites take marine air, inland sites take hard sun, and both take a construction that was made for outdoors. In parts of the state, fire-zone requirements affect what can be built outside, so those need confirming before anything is specified.
Balboa and Lido lots are famously small, with houses built to the line and streets barely wide enough for a delivery truck. Cabinetry is sized to be walked in, and installs are sequenced tightly because there is nowhere to stage material.
This is a boating and waterfront market, so salt exposure is constant and outdoor living is used year round. Aluminium rather than stainless is the right answer for exterior cabinetry here.
Coastal building rules apply near the water, and anything affecting an exterior should have its approvals confirmed before it is fabricated.
The specification below is the same whether the job is in Newport Beach or anywhere else we work — it is how we build, not what we build for the market.
Outdoor cabinetry is a materials problem before it is a design one. Sun, rain, humidity and — near any coast — salt will destroy an indoor cabinet finished for an indoor life. We build outdoor kitchens in marine-grade aluminium with 304 stainless hardware, sealed doors and drawers, and integrated drainage, because that is what survives.
Door slides, hinges, pulls and levelling legs are all outdoor grade, because the hardware fails long before the box does.
Doors and drawers are sealed with integrated drainage, so water that gets in has somewhere to go.
Twice as thick as most stainless cabinetry on the market and lighter, which also makes it easier to deliver and install.
More on how we approach this → Outdoor Kitchens
We work throughout Newport Beach, including Balboa Island, Corona del Mar, Newport Coast, Lido Isle and Harbor Island. The housing here is harbour-front houses on small island lots, larger estates in Newport Coast, and a dense stock of 1970s and 1980s homes being rebuilt, and the cabinetry is specified for it rather than to a national standard.
Our Los Angeles showroom serves Orange County; Newport projects are scheduled as full-day site visits. The showroom is at 506 S Spring St. Bring the plans, or send them over and we will itemise the cabinetry by room before you visit.
Every project is photographed room by room with the materials and the detailing listed, so you can see how a job like this is actually put together before you commit to one.
See the outdoor kitchens we have built
You can also search every finish we specify and every appliance we design around.
One shop draws, finishes and installs all of it, which is why the closet matches the kitchen and there is one number to call when something needs adjusting.
Book a free 30-minute consultation with a designer who works in Newport Beach every week. Send the drawings if you have them — we will itemise the cabinetry by room.
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