Outdoor Kitchens · Fort Worth
Outdoor kitchens in Fort Worth, built like part of the house
An outdoor kitchen is a small building. Gas, power, water, drainage, a roof and a slab all get planned before anything is poured, and we design and build it with the house it belongs to.
The part the brochure leaves out
What a grill island doesn’t come with
The kit version is a counter with a grill in it, parked on the patio you already have. Then the questions start: where the gas comes from, what the fridge plugs into, where the rinse water goes, and why nobody wants to stand there at four in the afternoon. A built kitchen answers all six before the slab is poured.
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Gas
Where the grill sits decides where the line runs, and that gets drawn before any concrete goes down.
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Power
Outlets, lights, a fan, a fridge. Each one is a circuit, placed where you will reach for it.
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Water
A sink changes how you cook outside. It needs a supply line in and somewhere for the water to go.
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Drainage
Rain, hose water and a tipped cooler all have to leave the slab somewhere other than your back door.
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A roof
Shade decides whether anyone cooks out there in summer. A cover tied to the house has to agree with its roofline.
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A slab
Everything above sits on it, so it is sized for counters, posts and a grill, not a table and four chairs.
Gas and electrical each carry their own sub-permit, and a roof over the kitchen is a structure with its own. We pull them, and they are in the number you get up front.
Walk us through where it would go
Big builds only
We design it like a room, and build it like one
We remodel kitchens and build houses for a living, and an outdoor kitchen asks the same questions with the weather added. So we don’t sell islands. We take the jobs with a structure in them, where the kitchen, its roof and its utilities are designed as one thing.
Where it sits
Against the house, the pool and the path food takes from the indoor kitchen. Close enough to use, far enough that the smoke stays outside.
The cover
A roof attached to the house or one standing on its own posts. Either way, it is what carries the fan and the lights.
Which way you face
Toward your guests, the yard or the pool. The cook spends the evening looking one direction, so we pick it on purpose.
What lives outside
Storage for what stays out all season, and a fridge sized for what you actually serve.
By day · Wedgwood, Fort Worth
Under the same roof as the house
Our clients had lived in this house for thirty years when we took it down to the studs, and the outdoor space was part of the same job, from floor plans to construction. The kitchen sits under the cedar-beamed cover that runs off the glass doors, a few steps from the house.
Glass doors into the house on the left, the kitchen on the right, one cedar-beamed roof over both.
After dark
The fire is why you’re still out there at ten
A fire feature belongs in the same plan as the kitchen, because the two compete for the same things: the gas line, the wind, the seating and where the smoke goes. We design outdoor fireplaces, fire tables, sunken fire pits and fire bowls.
- Wood or gas
- Which way the wind carries the smoke
- Where the chairs go, and how far from the cook
The Tanglewood house we rebuilt has a wood-burning masonry fireplace outside as well as in.
Up close
The utilities, in the photographs
Taken close enough to see the work that makes a kitchen usable: a drain at the foot of the counter, outlets set in the stone, a smoker on a ledge built to fit it.
Three steps
From the patio you have to the kitchen you’ll use
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Meet Up
We stand where it would go with you and ask how you cook, and who is usually there when you do.
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Team Up
We draw the kitchen, the cover and the utilities together, and put a real number on it before anything is dug.
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Glasses Up
We pull the permits, build it, and hand you the tongs.
The number
Our outdoor work runs $35,000 to $400,000: a covered patio or outdoor kitchen at the low end, a pool with a full outdoor kitchen and living space at the top. Every structure built around the kitchen moves it up from there.
Before anything is poured
Outdoor kitchen questions
Not sure your patio can take it?
We’ll look at the slab and where the gas, power and water would have to come from, then tell you straight.
How much does an outdoor kitchen cost in Fort Worth?
Our outdoor work runs $35,000 to $400,000, and an outdoor kitchen sits toward the low end of that range. What moves it is how much gets built around the kitchen: a cover, a fire feature and new paving are each their own structure. Permits run $1,200 to $4,000, and you get the number before anything is dug.
Do I need a permit for an outdoor kitchen?
If it has gas or power, yes, and usually more than one. Gas and electrical each carry their own sub-permit, and a roof over the kitchen is a structure in its own right. We handle them as part of the job.
Can you build an outdoor kitchen on the patio we already have?
Sometimes. It depends on whether the existing slab can carry masonry counters and a cover’s posts, and whether gas, power and water can reach it without tearing up what is already there. We look at it before we promise anything.
Does an outdoor kitchen need a roof?
It doesn’t have to have one. Without one, it works on the evenings the weather allows. With one, it works in the afternoon sun and in the rain, and it has somewhere to hang a fan and lights. A roof that attaches to the house has to be designed with the house’s roofline.
Which appliances should go in it?
That is your call, and we will help you make it. What we care about is what each one needs from the build: a gas line, a dedicated circuit, a drain, room to breathe under a roof. Choose them before the design is final, because the openings in the counter get cut once.
Do you build fire pits and outdoor fireplaces too?
Yes, as part of the same outdoor plan: outdoor fireplaces, fire tables, sunken fire pits and fire bowls. Planning them with the kitchen is what keeps the smoke, the seating and the cook out of each other’s way.
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Start at the back door
Let’s put the kitchen where you’ll use it
Tell us about the patio you have and the dinners you want to have on it. We’ll walk it with you and talk through a real budget before anything gets drawn.