Your outdoor kitchen shows up already built.
No contractor. No masonry crew. No summer spent watching a hole in your patio. It's delivered ready to install, in finished sections that level into place. Watch a kitchen go in below.
A few questions about your patio and how you cook. Then a design call with someone who's already read your answers.
A finished island, delivered ready to install.
Here's exactly what we need from you.
A few questions, about two minutes. We're not going to pretend a web form can design your kitchen. What it does is make sure the person you talk to already understands your backyard before the conversation starts.
Your space
Rough dimensions of your patio or deck, and what it's built on.
How you cook
Whether you're grilling for four on a Tuesday or hosting twenty on a Saturday.
What you want in it
Grill, griddle, fridge, pizza oven, storage. Including anything you already own.
Your timeline
This spring, this year, or still thinking about it. All three are fine answers.
And here's what you get back.
A design call that starts where you left off, instead of twenty minutes of a stranger asking what you already typed.
What happens after you hit submit
A few questions. Your space, your cooking, your appliances, your timeline.
A real person reads your answers. Not a call center. Someone who works on these every day.
Layouts for your actual patio, and your configuration priced out line by line.
It gets built and delivered. Finished sections, set in place at your home.
Starting prices for all four islands are published further down this page. You don't have to take the quiz to see them.
Until now, there were two ways to get an outdoor kitchen.
Most people start shopping, hit one of these two walls, and quietly shelve the project for another year.
The flat-pack kit
A pallet of panels, a bag of hardware, and a PDF. Cheap to buy, expensive in weekends.
- Arrives as parts, not as a kitchen
- Open backs and open bottoms, so it becomes a home for whatever lives in your yard
- Sits crooked the second your pavers aren't perfectly flat
- Steel and MDF cores that rust or swell in a couple of humid seasons
The masonry build
A contractor, a crew, and a backyard you can't use while it happens.
- Bids that vary wildly and change once the work starts
- Months of staging, dust, and trades in and out of your yard
- Locked in permanently, exactly where they poured it
- You find out the real price at the end, not the beginning
So we built the third option: a kitchen that's finished before it ever reaches your house.
We build it in the shop. Not in your backyard.
Every Stono kitchen is welded, coated, and finished on our floor in South Carolina, then delivered ready to install. The construction project happens where the tools are. Your part is deciding where it goes.
Aluminum cut, welded, and powder coated on our floor. You see the kitchen exist before it's ever on a truck.
A real delivery at a real house. Sections off the truck, leveling legs set, done while the coffee's still warm.
Finished backyards in use. Same kitchens, months later, with people standing around them.
Delivered ready to install
Doors hung, panels on, coating cured. Nothing gets assembled in your driveway.
Hidden leveling legs
Adjust with a socket. It sits planted and true on pavers, bluestone, or decking, with no visible feet.
Enclosed floor, finished backs
Nothing gets in underneath, and it looks as good from the back as it does from the front.
Fits the appliances you want
Grills, griddles, fridges, pizza ovens, smokers. If it has a cutout spec, we can fit it.
What you're really choosing between.
Worth having in one place before you go further.
| Flat-pack kit | Masonry build | Stono | |
|---|---|---|---|
| What arrives | A pallet of panels and hardware | A crew, materials, and a staging area | Finished sections, delivered ready to install |
| Who builds it | You, over a weekend or three | A contractor and subs | Us, in our shop, before it ships |
| Uneven patio | Shims, and you can see them | Poured to grade | Hidden internal leveling legs |
| Underneath and behind | Usually open | Solid, but permanent | Enclosed floor, finished on all sides |
| If you move | Comes apart, more or less | Stays with the house | Goes with you |
| Knowing the price | Upfront, but the extras add up | After the bid, and it can change | Published, before you talk to anyone |
Comparisons describe the flat-pack and masonry categories generally, not any one company.
Not sure which size your patio can take?
Start the 2-Minute QuizTell us the dimensions and we'll work it out with you on the call.
Getting it installed is easy. Getting it to survive is the hard part.
Every outdoor kitchen looks good in the listing photo. The question that actually matters is what it looks like after four summers of sun, rain, and whatever your sprinklers do to it every morning at six.
Rust that starts where you can't see it
Steel frames and cheap fasteners go first, usually from the inside out. By the time it shows on the door faces, the structure has been going for a while.
Cores that swell
Wood and MDF-backed cabinetry absorbs moisture, swells, and stops closing square. Nothing about it is fixable once it starts.
Finish that chalks and fades
Paint and thin coatings give up under UV. The color goes flat, then it starts flaking at the edges and corners.
Buying twice is the most expensive way to do this.
The kitchen that costs less on day one stops being the cheaper one the moment you replace it. Everything below exists so that this is a purchase you make once.
Five decisions, made once, so you don't deal with them later.
This is the whole spec, in the order it goes together. None of it is visible once the kitchen is on your patio, which is exactly why it's worth reading now.
Marine-grade aluminum body
Welded, with real weight to it. It won't rust out like plate steel or rot like wood framing, and the strength doesn't depend on the fasteners staying tight.
Architectural powder coat
The finish class used on coastal architecture, not the kind sprayed on patio furniture. It handles salt air, direct sun, and freeze-thaw without flaking.
316 stainless hardware, standard
The coastal spec, rated for salt pools and ocean air, on every kitchen. You get it whether your backyard is on the water or five hundred miles from it.
A fully enclosed floor
Enclosed underneath instead of open to the patio. Nothing nests in it, nothing washes through it, and storage stays dry.
Finished panels on every side
Backs and ends are finished like fronts, so the kitchen can sit out in the open instead of being pushed against a wall to hide something.
The people who bought it for exactly this reason.
"We looked at a lot of outdoor kitchen options before finding Stono. We wanted something that would last and not fall apart after a few seasons."
Chris M. — Newport Beach, CA"We're so glad we decided to go with Stono. Delivery was easy and everything arrived in great shape. Putting it together was straightforward."
Jennifer L. — Wilmington, NCBacked by a 7-year warranty on powder coat finishes.
Industry-leading, and the reason we can talk about the finish this confidently. It's the difference between replacing a rusted-out unit every few years and buying once.
Find out which build fits your climate and your patio.
Take the 2-Minute QuizCoastal spec comes standard either way. The quiz sorts out size, layout, and appliances.
Nobody in this industry will just tell you the price.
You fill out a form. You wait. Someone calls. You get most of the way through the conversation before anyone puts a number in front of you. Three companies later you still can't tell your spouse what this costs, and the project stalls out right there. That's not how we do it.
So we published ours. They're right below, and you don't have to give us anything to read them.
What a Stono kitchen actually costs.
Four island sizes, published starting prices, and no form standing between you and them.
Most complete Stono kitchens, appliances included, land between $12,000 and $30,000, depending on size. Where you land inside that depends on size, appliances, and finishes, which is what the design call is for.
The nights the whole neighborhood ends up in your backyard.
Nobody buys an outdoor kitchen for the aluminum. You're buying the Saturday where the game is on, the grill is going, and nobody's stuck inside missing it. The dinners that move outside from May to October. The house your kids' friends want to be at.
What happens after the truck leaves.
The install is the easy part to promise. Here's what people say once they've lived with it.
"Our outdoor kitchen turned out even better than we expected. The layout works great for cooking and hanging out, and it fits our patio perfectly."
David S. — Jacksonville, FL"Working with the Stono team was really easy. They were responsive whenever we had questions, and the whole process went smoothly."
Mark R. — Mount Pleasant, SC
Whether this is the right call for you.
We'd rather you find out here than three weeks into a conversation.
Stono is a fit if
- You have a patio, deck, or pad already in place
- You want this done in weeks, not across a whole season
- You'd rather buy once than replace it in a few years
- You cook outside enough that a grill on a cart stopped being enough
- You want to know what it costs before you talk to a salesperson
Probably not a fit if
- You're looking for the cheapest option on the market
- You need the hardscaping, pergola, and drainage designed too
- You want something built into an existing masonry structure
- You're renting and can't have anything delivered
The questions everyone asks.
What does the quiz actually ask me?
A few things: your patio size and surface, how you cook and how many people you usually feed, which appliances matter to you, the range you're working within, and roughly when you'd want it.
What happens with my answers?
They go to one of our people, who reads them before reaching out to set up your design call. The starting prices are on this page whether you take the quiz or not.
What actually happens on a design call?
You share photos or measurements of your space, we go through layout options and appliance choices, and you leave knowing exactly what your configuration costs. About twenty minutes, and there's nothing to sign at the end of it.
How fast can I be cooking outside?
Most kitchens are ready in as little as 6 weeks from order. Because it's delivered ready to install, that step takes an afternoon instead of a season. If you have a date circled on the calendar, tell us and we'll work backward from it.
Do I need a contractor?
No general contractor, no masonry crew, no framing. Sections arrive finished and level into place with the built-in leveling system. Utility hookups, if your layout includes gas or electric, are the one piece handled by a local pro, same as any grill line.
How long will it last?
The body is marine-grade aluminum with an architectural powder-coat finish, so it doesn't rust like steel or rot like wood. We back it with an industry-leading 7-year warranty on powder coat finishes.
Will it hold up near the coast?
That's the environment it was engineered for. Salt air, salt pools, humidity, and freeze-thaw cycles are the design brief, not the exception. 316 stainless hardware is our coastal-spec standard, even for inland homes.
Will my appliances fit?
If it has a cutout spec, we can fit it. Grills, griddles, refrigeration, pizza ovens, smokers, ice machines. If you already own an appliance you love, bring it.
What if my patio isn't perfectly level?
Almost no patio is. Hidden internal leveling legs adjust with a simple socket, so the kitchen sits planted and true on pavers, bluestone, or decking, with no visible feet.
"We started Stono because the choice shouldn't be a flimsy kit you assemble yourself or a construction project that takes over your yard. There's a better way to get a real outdoor kitchen, and we build it."Xavier Meier, Stono Outdoor Living
Find the kitchen your backyard is waiting for.
Tell us about your patio, how you cook, and when you'd want it. A few questions, and the conversation after starts somewhere useful.
- A few questions, about two minutes
- Nothing to sign on the call
- A design call, already prepared
- Prices published on this page
Rather talk it through with a person? Schedule a design call or call (877) 800-6238.