When planning your outdoor kitchen, you will no doubt talk to a lot of different people to get different opinions on all the various outdoor kitchen designs you are bound to run into during this process. Some people approach this process much like they do the planning for a kitchen inside the home, while others consider it a very different thing altogether and so they approach it in a much different way.
Some elements of designing your outdoor kitchen are actually quite similar to the things you have to think about inside the home. For example, for a full kitchen outside you will need electric and plumbing in the area. If those things are not in the area, it can be a very big deal and get those utilities to the right place can really blow your budget. It is important to bring in the right professionals when dealing with these things so you know up front what costs to expect. You may not believe it, but if there is no plumbing in the area you are planning for your outdoor sink, you could be looking at a bill of a few thousand dollars to get it there. That is obviously something you want to know in advance!
As far as the shape the outdoor cabinets are going to take, this will be determined by a combination of the space available and what you want to do with that space. If your interests are limited to just a built-in grill, you don't need very much space at all. But if you want something more elaborate, you will have to balance those desires with the available space. It does pay to bring in professional contractors when you are in the design phase because they have seen many different homes and are used to trying to get creative to reach the functional desires of the homeowners within the available space.
If you want to do in-depth designing before you bring anyone in, you have to have a good understanding of the sizes of the different appliances you want in your outdoor kitchen. Just because a certain grill is referred to as a 30" grill, does not mean it is actually that size Manufacturers measure their equipment in different ways, so one brand of 30" grill might actually be 33" wide while another might be 27" wide. Every inch counts when trying to design an outdoor space, so pay attention to the details! Fortunately, the dimensions of most equipment are available online so you will not have trouble finding the information you need.
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