To complement our outdoor clay oven area, we decided to use some of the space near it into an outdoor kitchen.
We had a builder friend build the actual cabinet and seating out of pine and an eco pine cladding. As you can see, the cabinet doors have not been fitted yet, but he is fitting them this weekend. This job is a little beyond my DIY skills.
We have a second hand stainless steel sink to be fitted, and a two burner stove top that will be installed at the other end of the bench, which in the future will be able to be converted to biogas.
Out of shot to the right of the picture is the Clay Oven, which completes this kitchen.
Anyway, another interior designer friend gave Kim two boxes of Caesarstone samples, which were tile-shaped, so we decided to tile the bench using this material that was otherwise destined for landfill if we did not save it.
There is the hose and the diverter in the box. Very easy to fit.
You & Kim are going to love the outdoor kitchen Gavin. It’s so convenient when cooking & eating outdoors to be able to clean up outdoors as well 🙂
Absolutely brilliant, who knew being green could be so smart!!
Really beautiful set up, and practical as well. Kinda envious, actually!
I love it Gav, you have given me a few ideas xx
This looks absolutely fantastic love it
beautiful! the tiles look lovely. Cant wait to see it finished!
Looks great Gavin. Have you read James Kunstler’s ‘A World Made by Hand’? It has some great descriptions of summer kitchens.
This is fantastic Gavin. A great part of outdoor living here in Australia, and all “green”.
I’m sure you and your family and friends will have many happy hours out there.
Thats really lovely!
It looks fantastic Gav and I love the hidden greywater diverter too. Being environmentally friendly NEEDS to be aesthetically pleasing in my books. It sets a great example for all others then. 🙂 And what an awesoome and beautiful example your place sets.
We too have been on the reuse circuit somewhat. We’ve been upgrading the chook pen to segregate fowl and ruminants as we suspect our darling Anna is entering the final days of her confinement. 😀 Sterile kidding environment required. To allow access for us between the areas though we’ve been reusing discarded security doors. There is a solid steel entry into the chook pen now and the old front door is now an internal divider. I also concreted some small rocks into the shallow end of a bathtub which I manhandled (should have contreted AFTER I located the bath) into the chookpen to upgrade bathing facilities for our ducks. We’ve also got an old laundry sink which we hope to plumb in which means we can wash up after chicken culling or gardening etc without needing to bring things inside. It will likely be cold water only but even so.
Nothing like a repurpose or reuse.
Looks stunning, Gav. I really like the tile work.
I am somewhat fetishy over built-in, practical furniture. It makes so much sense. Why have furniture floating all around the place, serving a single purpose when it can incorporate storage and hide things like your grey water system?
I’m in the process of drawing up plans for my tiny house and incorporated furniture is top of the list. For example, consider beds. The beds that we see at Freedom or IKEA, they all have something in common, they are so low to the ground – making the space to small and awkward to be used seriously for storage. And even if you could, it is something of a social no-no to store things under your bed – when I was a kid it was something my mum would always check. The bed I have designed for my tiny house will sit 500-750mm off the ground, allowing for shelving and hanging space. It will be my wardrobe. Under the couch in the living area – that’s where I will store my battery bank for my solar system.
Great thing to make things more useful in your kitchen even you think it no longer useful.