Outdoor kitchens become full-service living spaces

There are more options than ever to make an outdoor kitchen a full-service living space that is both convenient and suitable for entertaining. In particular outdoor prep space suits an informal lifestyle where the host is the cook.

“The same way people often cook while people sit with a glass of wine at the island inside the house, it’s nice (outside) for the host not to be excluded from all the conviviality,” said architect Anthony Barnes of Barnes Vanes Architects.