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View all servicesAn outdoor kitchen in South Florida is an exterior structure with plumbing, gas and electrical in it, standing in salt air and full sun for its whole life. Getting the cover, the services and the materials right at the start is the difference between an outdoor room and an expensive corrosion experiment.
Miami-Dade · Broward & Palm Beach Counties
ScrollEverything that makes an indoor kitchen forgiving — conditioned air, a roof, dry cabinetry, hidden services — is absent outside. What replaces it is a structure that has to be engineered for uplift, a drainage strategy, materials chosen for salt and UV, and services run properly to an exterior location.
Engineered covered structures and cantilevered patio covers, built-in grill and bar runs, gas, water, waste and electrical run to an exterior location, weather-rated cabinetry and stone, lighting and fans — with the permit filed in our name and closed at handover.
Start your outdoor spaceNobody in South Florida needs persuading that the garden is usable. What people actually want is shade that works in August, somewhere to cook that is not a wheeled grill, and a space that does not look tired after three summers.
A covered structure outdoors is a sail in a storm, so it is engineered and permitted like the building it stands beside. Then it spends the rest of its life in UV and salt air, which decides the fixings, the cabinet carcass material and the finish on every metal component far more than taste does.
Most projects combine two of these. The cover almost always comes first, because it decides where everything else can go.
A structure over a cooking run and a seating area, so the space is usable in rain and in August sun. The cover is engineered and permitted, and it is what makes the kitchen beneath it last.
A grill, burners, counter and storage set into a masonry or steel-framed island. Cheaper without a cover — and significantly harder on the appliances and the cabinetry, which is worth knowing before choosing it.
Where the point of the property is the water, the structure cantilevers so nothing lands in the sightline. That is a structural decision with a real cost, and it is usually the right one on a canal lot.
A raised or flush counter with stools changes how the space is used more than any appliance does — it is where people actually stand.
Levels, drainage and the wet path between pool and counter decide the finish selection. A beautiful floor that is lethal wet is a design failure, not a maintenance issue.
A clad soffit with recessed lighting and fans is what makes a covered space feel like a room. All of it is wiring designed before the cover is closed.
Please read: these are genuine Elbaz Construction outdoor kitchen and covered living projects across a number of separate South Florida properties. They are not one project and are not presented as one. No address, cost, date or schedule is stated for any of them.
How these photographs are describedSix observations drawn from the projects shown on this page.
The projects shown are different houses on different lots, and they solve the same thing: how to get usable shade and a real cooking run onto a South Florida terrace without it looking bolted on.
These photographs are from several separate properties and are not presented as one project. No address, cost, date or schedule is claimed.
Several covers here cantilever out over the terrace with no column in the water sightline. That is the structure being asked to do something awkward so the view is not interrupted — and it is decided at engineering, not at finish stage.
In nearly every one of these the cooking run is oriented so whoever is cooking is facing the seating and the view rather than a wall. It costs nothing at design stage and it is the whole difference between an outdoor kitchen and an outdoor appliance.
Clad soffits hide the structure, carry the lighting and the fans, and give the space a ceiling. Where they are absent the same terrace reads as a car port, no matter what is underneath it.
A few frames show bare slabs, exposed structure and unlandscaped ground, which is deliberate — that is what these projects look like before the furniture arrives, and it shows the structure that the finished shots hide.
An outdoor kitchen fails from the inside out, and always in the same order. Select a layer to see what it does.
A slab thick enough to carry the structure and the masonry, with footings where the cover lands, and a fall that takes water away from the house rather than toward it.
Water that ponds under an outdoor kitchen finds the cabinet carcasses first.
LayerA roof over a terrace is a large uplift surface, so it is engineered for the wind speed at your address and tied down accordingly — through the posts, into the footings, and where it attaches to the house, into that structure too.
LayerGas run and pressure-tested to the appliance, water and waste to the sink, and electrical on protected circuits in exterior-rated enclosures. All of it in the slab or the masonry before anything is clad.
This is the layer that cannot be retrofitted without demolition, and the one people most often defer.
LayerMasonry, or a marine-grade metal frame — not indoor cabinetry moved outside. Every fixing, hinge and drawer runner is a corrosion decision, and stainless of the wrong grade will still bleed rust in salt air.
LayerCounters that tolerate UV without fading, and a floor that is not dangerous when wet and not too hot to stand on barefoot. Both rule out materials that would be obvious choices indoors.
LayerTask light over the cooking run, softer light for sitting, and fans — which in this climate do more for whether the space is used than any other single component. All wired before the soffit closes.
Full shade and rain protection, a clad soffit to carry lighting and fans, and the best protection for what sits underneath it.
Adjustable or partial shade with some rain penetration. Handsome, and it does not give the appliances the same cover.
Lowest cost and the hardest life for the cabinetry and appliances. Worth choosing deliberately rather than by budget default.
Grill size, burner count and whether there is a refrigerator or an ice maker decide the gas line, the electrical load and the masonry openings. Choosing them after the island is built means rebuilding the island.
Requirements are set by the authority having jurisdiction for your municipality and genuinely differ between them. What follows is how the stage runs, not a promise about what your city requires or how long it will take.
A covered structure with gas and electrical in it is thoroughly permitted work:
Gas, water and power all have to reach an exterior location from somewhere. The route is frequently the constraint that decides where the kitchen can go — which is why it is checked before the layout is agreed.
Footings and any services in the slab are inspected before the pour. After that they are under concrete, and a change is demolition rather than a revision.
Setbacks, lot coverage, impervious-area limits and HOA rules all differ. Nothing here is a legal opinion. We establish what applies to your lot before you commit to a design.
Further projects across separate properties. Use the thumbnails, the arrows, arrow keys, or swipe on the image.
The range here is wider than almost any other service, because "outdoor kitchen" covers everything from a grill island to a permitted building. These are the twelve factors.
An engineered, permitted structure is frequently the largest single item — and the one that most protects everything under it.
Gas, water, waste and power from the house to an exterior location. Distance and what they have to cross decide this more than anything else.
Removing columns from a sightline is a structural request with a real number attached, and on a waterfront lot it is usually worth it.
Grill size, burners, refrigeration and ice, and the gas and electrical load they bring.
Masonry or marine-grade frame, and the corrosion grade of every fixing in it.
UV stability and heat behaviour rule out several materials that would be fine indoors.
How much floor is being laid, and in what — often larger than the kitchen itself.
Falls, drains and where the water actually goes once it leaves the slab.
Separately switched layers, wired before the soffit closes.
Getting materials and machines to a rear terrace on a tight lot.
Working beside an existing pool means protecting it, and often draining it.
Whatever the machines cross has to be put back. It is frequently left out of quotations and is worth pricing deliberately rather than discovering.
After a site visit you get a written scope priced against drawings and a named appliance schedule — stating what is included, what is not, and where a contingency is likely. We will also tell you honestly whether the cover or the kitchen is the better place to spend if the budget will not carry both.
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For a freestanding grill on a cart, no. For anything built in with gas, water or electrical, and for any covered structure, yes — and the cover is reviewed structurally because a roof outside is a large uplift surface.
Setbacks, lot coverage and impervious-area limits are checked too, and an HOA approval is separate from any of that.
Because everything in them is designed for a dry, conditioned room. Outdoors the carcass swells, the fixings corrode and the hinges seize — usually within a couple of South Florida summers.
Outdoor cabinetry is masonry or a marine-grade metal frame, and the fixing grade matters as much as the cabinet does. Stainless of the wrong grade still bleeds rust here.
Toward the people, essentially always. If the cook is facing a wall while everyone else is behind them looking at the water, the space has failed at the one thing it exists to do. It costs nothing to get right at design stage.
Often, and it becomes a structural question about the existing building rather than just the new one — the attachment has to transfer uplift into something that can take it. That is verified rather than assumed, particularly on older construction.
Cover, in our view, if the budget will only carry one. It makes the space usable in rain and in August, and it dramatically extends the life of anything installed under it later. A superb kitchen in full sun gets used less and ages faster.
Usually. The questions are whether the existing slab can carry the structure and the masonry, whether footings can go where the cover needs to land, and how services reach the location. Sometimes part of the deck comes up; that is better known early.
It has to tolerate UV without fading and heat without becoming unusable. Several materials that are excellent indoors discolour outdoors, and dark surfaces in full sun get genuinely too hot to work on. We will tell you which of your preferences survives the location.
Under a solid cover, generally yes — a roofed outdoor kitchen traps smoke and grease much as an indoor one does, and the soffit will show it within a season if there is no extraction. Fully open, it is not required.
Drainage, landscape reinstatement, and the real cost of getting services to the location. All three are invisible on a drawing and all three are unavoidable, so a quotation without them is not cheaper — it is incomplete.
Longer than people expect, because it is a permitted structure with footings, a slab and inspected services before any of the visible work starts. The appliance lead times frequently set the end date rather than the construction does.
The single best value item on the whole list. In this climate, air movement decides whether a covered space is used in summer at all. Wire for more fans than you think you need while the soffit is open; adding them later means opening it again.
Yes. We work with four financing partners — Service Finance, Synchrony, Ygrene and Renew Financial — so you can compare options before you finalise the scope. Terms and eligibility are set by each lender and differ by programme.
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Further examples from separate properties. Not one project.
A completed covered outdoor kitchen. This is a photograph of genuine Elbaz Construction work at one of several properties shown on this page.
Footings and slab with services cast in, then the structure, then masonry and services rough-in, then surfaces, appliances and lighting. The visible transformation happens in the last third; the decisions all happened in the first.
Footings and in-slab services before the pour. Structural tie-downs and the attachment to the house before cladding. Gas pressure-tested before appliances. Falls checked with water, not with a level.
Everything here is either a licence number, a figure Elbaz publishes company-wide, or a description of how we work. No awards, memberships or certifications are listed, because inventing them is the easiest lie in this industry to tell.
Certified building contractor, bonded and insured. Verifiable with the State of Florida.
Across residential and commercial work in Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties.
Combined years across the team, in this market and this climate.
Cities served across the three counties.
We file with your building department directly, and we close the permit at handover.
Specified products are checked against their Notice of Acceptance or Florida Product Approval before ordering.
Service Finance, Synchrony, Ygrene and Renew Financial. $0 down and 100% financing available on qualifying PACE work, subject to lender approval. Compare all four.
A roof over a terrace is a large uplift surface. We engineer and permit them rather than fixing a kit to a wall, because the failure mode of the alternative is the structure leaving the building during a storm.
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Where to go next, depending on which part you are pinning down.
The wider picture — terrace, pool deck, shade and planting treated as one project rather than four separate ones.
Photographs of the area as it is now, and roughly where the house services come out, are the useful things. Tell us how you actually want to use it, not just what you want built.
If the budget will not carry both a cover and a full kitchen, we will tell you which one will get used more — and it is usually not the one people expect.
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Where the cover can land and where gas, water and power can reach decide what an outdoor kitchen can be, long before anyone chooses a grill. Start with a conversation — no obligation, and no brochure.
