Outdoor Kitchens designed, built and installed for Santa Monica — century-old bungalows a mile from salt air, on streets with nowhere to park. Our Los Angeles showroom downtown serves the Westside daily.
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.
Ocean air reaches most of the city, and it is closer to a marine environment than people expect a mile inland. Hardware and finishes are specified accordingly rather than as though this were a dry inland market.
The bungalow stock is small-roomed and full of original detail. The usual project takes one wall out and then works hard to make the new cabinetry belong to a house built a century ago.
Streets are dense and parking is genuinely difficult. Deliveries are booked, permitted where required, and kept short.
What follows applies to every outdoor kitchen we make, in Santa Monica and everywhere else.
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.
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.
Door slides, hinges, pulls and levelling legs are all outdoor grade, because the hardware fails long before the box does.
More on how we approach this → Outdoor Kitchens
We work throughout Santa Monica, including North of Montana, Ocean Park, Sunset Park and Wilshire-Montana. The housing here is Craftsman and Spanish bungalows, 1920s and 1930s apartment buildings, and contemporary rebuilds north of Montana, and the cabinetry is specified for it rather than to a national standard.
Our Los Angeles showroom downtown serves the Westside daily. The showroom is at 506 S Spring St. Visit when it suits, or start by sending the plans and we will come back with a number per room.
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 Santa Monica every week. Send the drawings if you have them — we will itemise the cabinetry by room.
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