Outdoor kitchen guides for people actually building one
Every guide here answers a single question you would ask while planning a real outdoor kitchen. No listicles, no "ten trends for this season". If a page cannot tell you what to measure or which part to buy, we do not publish it.
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The three that most builds get wrong
If you read nothing else before ordering cabinets, read these. They are the three points where a kitchen becomes expensive to correct.
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Written in the order the questions actually arrive. Older guides are still accurate — dimensions and materials do not change often.
Do I need to vent a grill cabinet?
Yes, always — and the vent goes in the fascia, not the top. What happens to a gas cylinder in an unvented box, and where the opening belongs.
304 or 316 stainless outdoors — the honest comparison
What the molybdenum in 316 actually does, where 304 is genuinely enough, and how to tell whether your site is in the salt-spray zone.
Stainless or stone for an outdoor countertop
Thermal shock, staining, weight and overhang. Both work — but they fail differently, and one of those failures is invisible until it is expensive.
Building an outdoor kitchen on a balcony
Weight per square metre, drainage rules in apartment buildings, and the smallest layout that still takes a grill and a sink.
Levelling a cabinet run — across the run, not per cabinet
The one mistake that produces a visible step under a stone top. A 2 mm tolerance over 3 m, and why individual cabinets can each be level and still be wrong.
What an outdoor kitchen costs, line by line
Cabinet bodies, doors, counter, grill, freight, and the four items people forget — including the one that shows up on delivery day.
How to use this library
Read in the order you build
An outdoor kitchen is decided in a sequence, and reading out of sequence is how people end up with a grill that does not fit an opening they have already ordered. The guides are grouped to match that sequence.
Start with the space, then the grill, then the modules, then the counter, then the cost. By the time you reach cost you will have the three numbers that determine it, and a per-metre quote will look as meaningless as it is.
1 · Space and layout
How much room, what it is made of, where the wind and rain come from. Planning & layout →
2 · The grill
Measure the cut-out, not the outside. Confirm venting and gas routing. Grill fitting →
3 · The modules
Which cabinets fill the run, in what order, with which handing. Modular cabinets →
4 · Counter and finish
Stainless or stone, and which of the three colourways survives your climate. Countertops →
Skip the reading
Send us the grill and the length
If you already know what you want, the fastest route is a quote request with your grill model and the run length you have. Two working days, one configuration, one price.
Page last updated · Reviewed by the BOGEQI technical team, Foshan Bogeqi Cabinetry Co., Ltd.
Common questions
About these guides
Who writes them, and what they are not.
Are these guides only about BOGEQI cabinets?
No. Most of them would apply to any modular outdoor kitchen: how a cut-out is measured, why standing water destroys a cabinet, what thermal shock does to a stone top. Where a guide is specific to our own modules it says so in the first paragraph.
How often are the guides updated?
Each page carries a published and a last-reviewed date. The technical pages are reviewed when a specification changes, and the pricing pages when the freight basis moves — both of which happen more often than once a year.
Can I ask about something not covered here?
Yes, and it is usually the fastest way to get an answer. Send the question with your grill model if it is about fitting; questions that come up more than twice tend to become the next guide.
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The numbers these guides keep coming back to
Almost every question on this site resolves to one of four figures. Keeping them in mind makes the guides faster to read.