3-Season Rooms: From Unused Space to Fab Outdoor Kitchen

3-Season Rooms: From Unused Space to Fab Outdoor Kitchen

An empty covered place off this house’s terrace and pool has been about to waste, but today it’s a beautiful and functional outdoor kitchen. Interior designer Arlene Lord attached the new kitchen to an present covered dining area, placing a bar in between them to function both regions. While the household can use the room from midspring to mid-October already, planned fresh heaters will allow them appreciate at least a second month on each end of winter.

Room at a Glance
Who lives here: A couple whose grandchildren visit frequently
Location: West Linn, Oregon
Construction: BC Custom Construction
Size: 400 square feet

Before Photo

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BEFORE: The distance was only a sterile covered place. The outdoor dining area with fireplace is beyond the wall to the left; the glass doorway leads into the home.

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AFTER: Here is exactly the same wall we saw in the before picture; standing, your back would be to the glass doorway. Structural work comprised scoring and massaging a new concrete floor, electric and plumbing work, building the bar, adding a fresh cedar ceiling that ties in to the dining room ceiling and extensive venting for the new grill hood. The outdoor kitchen has an ice maker, a Kegerator, a refrigerator, stainless steel cabinets and a severe grill with a serious hood.

The structural post in the end of the bar is the same one in the prior picture. It had to stay where it was, therefore Lord had the countertop.

Stainless Steel cabinets, grill and hood: Kalamazoo

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The room balances clean lines and stainless steel with more traditional elements, like such as iron pendant lights and zinc-framed mirrors, which emulate windows. The combination can help to brighten the room. “Your husband is on the grill a good deal, along with the mirrors allow him watch items and engage while he is confronting the grill,” Lord says.

Because of the winds in the region, Lord took the glass out of the lights and had a local light store swap the chains out for stiff stems. Then the stems were coated to match the end.

Pendant lights: Lamps Plus; mirrors: Baroque Weathered Zinc, Restoration Hardware

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Lord added countertops in Ceasarstone Lagos Blue, that carry on on the backsplash. She matched the elevation of the backsplash to the elevation of the closed grill top. “I wished to keep the lines as clean as you can and also add a flame-resistant surface barrier”

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Lord Design

“The dining area already existed but has been disconnected from the remainder of the terrace,” Lord says. Now the new kitchen bar have made it a cohesive coated space adjacent to the patio and pool. The present chimney means that they can use the room through the majority of October, along with the heaters the household plans to add shortly will expand that period through November.

Dining table, chairs: Restoration Hardware

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The bar and its outdoor kitchen connect the dining room area and also serves as a buffet. Lord inserted the mirror across the area (at right) to signify the pool and backyard.

The countertops are 21/2 inches thick and have mitered edges to get a smooth look. “There are big, chunky elements in this area, so we wanted a substantial advantage to go together,” she states.

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The Kegerator is obviously filled with a local brew, like you by Widmer Brothers.

Inspired by an iron railing elsewhere on the house, Lord designed the gate that you see in the background.

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Since the coated rooms open to the swimming pool, a locking gate has been demanded between the backyard for security. Unlike the gate that formerly covered this opening, this one allows for opinions to this beautiful garden from the outdoor rooms and the pool area. West-Meyer Fence custom made the gate.

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Lord Design

The shelving is a baker’s rack the client has had for decades; it’s beginning to rust, but that only adds to its patinated style. The terra-cotta pots were caught by Lord and filled them. The arrangement has remained the same ever since.

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“The customers’ daughter and grandchildren live nearby, and that is their summer hangout,” Lord says. And now they’ll be able to expand their period outside much longer.

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