Steps To Complete An Outdoor Kitchen And Marble Back Splash Lighting.

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New Custom outdoor kitchen BBQ Grill Island frm Majestic Grill Parts!

Below is the evolution of this custom outdoor kitchen from the original drawing we were sent to show the steps as we built this outdoor kitchen.  The original drawing is not great but the basic dimensions allowed us to create a schedule and proposal.

custom outdoor kitchen marble backsplash

custom outdoor kitchen and marble backsplash with lights

After we began construction on this outdoor kitchen the home owner decided they wanted to add a backsplash like one they saw in the images we showed them months earlier.

outdoor kitchen 3 dimension design

three dimensional grill island design drawing

Based on what they liked we had our architectural foam company create a border and then texture it to mimic a rough hewn stone .  The client chose a tumbled marble for the diamond pattern and tumbled marble adds a lot of color and texture not only by being tumbled with a lot of small cracks and holes in the surface but tumbled marble is always a range of colors so there is a mixture of various shades.

The varied shades and texture of marble like this allows for a lot of blending with other textures and colors through the backyard.  A flat color will always have a more stark and dramatic look but the variations created by the marble and by the texture that creates different effects of light on the surface (which is also true of the base stucco texture) allows for more colors to seem a part of the area so the walls of the house and the floors and the  deck and the pool all have more shades to complement and/or match.

grill island area on site

area for outdoor kitchen plus the mess left by not-so-smart contractor

 

The original area of this home was not optimal because the contractor did not take the island into consideration.  They only added and moved the electrical you see in this image because of the outdoor kitchen.  However, the electrical boxes were not mounted based on the design, the specifications of the outdoor kitchen counter or where the electrical outlets actually needed to be.

Once we met on site and we realized this we had to have these boxes moved.

The problem was that the contractor had this idea of building a wall on top of this wall where we were building our outdoor kitchen because he did not believe the conduit and plumbing pipes would look acceptable inside the outdoor kitchen counters.  Instead he built this wall with wood (yes, with wood!) and wanted us to build on top of it.  This is a very bad idea because any high-end gas grill company is going to immediately void any warranty as soon as there are any combustable materials used as a part of the grill island.

constructing the grill island

constructing the outdoor kitchen and waiting for the granite installers

The electrical was moved up as we asked but we could not get the contractor to score the wall and sink the boxes and conduit as should have been done.  Instead we had our own electrician come in and do this without telling anyone.  The contractor wanted the water-tight electrical boxes to be open so the face plate would fit to the outside of our backsplash but this would have been very dangerous with the electrical not sealed against weather properly.

Once we got to building we also discovered the floor — which are pavers only installed to match the original deck so the home owner could place an outdoor kitchen on the space — was almost two inches off-level over the short ten feet of the counter!

Although it is normal to have a pitch to any deck so water will be motivated to run-off the floor using this severe of a pitch is not part of a plan but simple laziness on the part of the contractor.

custom outdoor kitchen island finished

Just finished, losing light just before the holiday deadline

Fortunately we always build to ensure our counter is level and we created the walls of the grill island to be level even though the floor was not level and the walls not “plum”.

Even with the added work of the electrical and the backsplash and working with a lazy contractor we had to have the job completed and the grill installed by last weekend so the client could use the grill during the Christmas and New Year holidays.

The darker image is the first shot of the completed island at 8 pm which is why we are a little dark here.

With an impossible time frame and a difficult task we cusotm designed and built the outdoor kitchen, built the backsplash, fixed the electrical problems so they would pass code and had a custom slab of granite fabricated and installed before the holidays started.

The Funny ending is that once we were completely installed the home owner told us he was sure the deadline was impossible to meet so they had planned a trip to be out of town!  They never thought we could get so much completed in such a short amount of time — and still have the entire project built and installed perfectly.

barbecue grill island with bar top seating

custom outdoor kitchen with granite bar height seating area

 

Fianlly I noticed the walls of our outdoor kitchen look pretty good against the original texture and color of the home.  These are not the same.  We matched a stock color from a color wheel so the colors would be close.  We thought once we got past the installation deadline we could always paint the stucco texture of the island.  The colors look pretty exact in the images and I suspect they match very well in person with the sun beating on the colors.  Not bad!

Majestic Grill Parts

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Outdoor Kitchen Images — http://www.grill-repair.com/grillisland.html

Built In BBQ Grill Island Accessories — http://www.grill-repair.com/builtinbbq.html

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