Outdoor Kitchens in Muncie, Indiana

We believe an outdoor kitchen is architecture, not appliances. A homeowner usually describes the project as a list of equipment: the grill, the side burner, the sink, the refrigerator, the pizza oven if there is room in the budget. The list is fine as a starting point. It is also not the project. The project is the structure that holds those pieces. Counter material, base structure, surrounding hardscape, drainage off the cooking surface, sight lines from the seating, shade and shelter through summer rain, and the way the kitchen reads as part of the property when no one is cooking.

When the structure is right, the appliances do what the homeowner bought them to do. When the structure is wrong, the appliances spend a few summers as the most expensive failed feature on the property.

I am Josh Perkins, Landscape Architect, and I lead the design work at Plant Studio Landscape’s Muncie outdoor kitchen team. The page below walks the three kitchen types we design most often for East Central Indiana properties and what every kitchen we design has in common regardless of type.