Outdoor Kitchens designed, built and installed for Brooklyn — rowhouses with sloping floors, narrow stairs and mouldings worth keeping. Our New York showroom is on Eastern Parkway, in the middle of the borough.
An outdoor kitchen in New York has to survive a freeze rather than a salt spray, and that is a different specification. Water that gets into a cabinet and then freezes will do more damage in one winter than a decade of summer use, so drainage and sealing matter more here than anywhere. Marine-grade aluminium handles the freeze-thaw cycle without the corrosion that appears on lesser materials at the fixings, and the run is designed so it can be shut down properly for the season.
The brownstone is the defining problem and the defining opportunity. Long narrow floors, a kitchen usually at garden level, original mouldings worth keeping, and stairs that decide what can physically get in. Cabinetry is built to be carried up a rowhouse stair.
Landmarked districts control the exterior and, in some cases, more than that. Interiors are generally unrestricted, but it is worth establishing which district a house sits in before anything touching a window or a facade is drawn.
These houses move. Floors slope, walls bow, and a 12-foot run can lose an inch end to end. Scribes and site templating are standard, not contingency.
What follows applies to every outdoor kitchen we make, in Brooklyn 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.
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 Brooklyn, including Park Slope, Brooklyn Heights, Carroll Gardens, Williamsburg and Fort Greene. The housing here is brownstones and limestone rowhouses, converted industrial buildings, and new condominium along the waterfront, and the cabinetry is specified for it rather than to a national standard.
Our New York showroom is on Eastern Parkway, in the middle of the borough. The showroom is at 1200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn. 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 Brooklyn every week. Send the drawings if you have them — we will itemise the cabinetry by room.
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