L-shaped white outdoor kitchen with built-in grill and stainless appliances

Barbecues, Fireplaces & Fire Pits

Outdoor kitchens, gas fire pits, and stone fireplaces — the features that turn a backyard into the room everyone ends up in.

The craft

Built like a building, finished like furniture

A BBQ island or fire pit lives outside year-round, holds fire, and carries appliances — so we build them the way we build everything else: on real footings, in block and steel, with gas and electrical run properly before a single stone goes on. The veneer and the poured concrete counter are the part you see; the structure underneath is why it still looks this good years later.

Every island is built around the appliances you actually want, and every fire feature is fitted for clean-burning gas with fire glass or stone. From a simple brick pit to a full outdoor kitchen with a floating concrete bench, it’s all the same crew, the same standards, all over the South Bay.

What we build

Custom BBQ islands
Full outdoor kitchens
Poured concrete countertops
Stone & brick veneer
Gas fire pits & fire tables
Outdoor fireplaces
Fireplace refacing
Built-in seating & benches

Roy's crew setting forms and steel for a built-in seating footing — Footings and steel first — the part of a fire feature nobody sees, and the reason it lasts.

Barbecues & outdoor kitchens

From a single built-in grill to a full kitchen with doors, drawers, a fridge, and a bar top — faced in stacked stone, brick, or smooth stucco, and almost always finished with a concrete counter poured in place.

Long white outdoor kitchen island with built-in grill and stainless doors on a paver patio — Full outdoor kitchen — grill, doors, and fridge in one island

Stacked stone BBQ island with concrete counter on a paver deck overlooking the city — Stacked stone island with a poured concrete counter

Quartzite-faced BBQ island with stainless grill and vent hood overlooking the South Bay — Quartzite-faced island with a hilltop view

Outdoor kitchen built into a full-height stacked stone wall — Kitchen built into a full-height stone wall

Built-in grill island with concrete countertop beside a pool — Grill island poolside, concrete counters

Twin stainless grills in a stone counter under a wood pergola — Twin grills under a shaded pergola

Modern concrete-topped BBQ island with a floating concrete bench and wood privacy screen — Modern island with a floating concrete bench

White farmhouse-style outdoor kitchen with concrete counters — Farmhouse-style kitchen, smooth concrete top

Before & after

Small projects, big difference

Fire features don’t have to mean a full backyard remodel. Both of these transformed their space without touching anything around them.

Before and after: a dated tile fireplace refaced in stacked stone — A dated tile fireplace, refaced in stacked stone. No demolition of the firebox, no remodel — we refaced the existing fireplace in ledger stone and rebuilt the hearth. A weekend-scale project that changes the whole room.

Before and after: an old wood fence replaced with a curved concrete bench beside a pool — From a failing fence line to poolside seating. We replaced a collapsing wood fence with a curved, poured-in-place concrete bench that follows the pool — permanent seating that never needs a coat of stain.

Fire pits & fire tables

Round, square, linear, or cast as a floating table — nearly all gas-fired with fire glass, and many wrapped in the seat walls and benches that make them the center of the yard.

Square gas fire pit with blue fire glass wrapped by a curved seat wall and benches — Gas fire pit with blue glass and a curved seat wall

Curved concrete bench and fire pit beside a resort-style pool at dusk — Curved bench and fire pit, resort-style pool behind

Long linear fire feature with a glass windscreen on a stone terrace — Linear fire feature with glass windscreen

Modern gray concrete fire table with blue fire glass and wood armchairs — Cast concrete fire table with blue glass

Stacked stone fire pit with a travertine cap in a terraced backyard — Stacked stone pit with travertine cap

Round stucco fire pit filled with blue fire glass — Round stucco pit with fire glass

Square brick fire pit in a palm courtyard — Classic brick fire pit in a garden courtyard

Fire pit with lounge chairs, pool, and ocean view — Fire pit seating with a Palos Verdes view

Fireplaces

Indoors and out — full-height outdoor fireplaces that anchor a patio, and stone surrounds and refacing work that bring an old living room fireplace back to life.

Outdoor stone fireplace lit at dusk under a pergola — Outdoor stone fireplace, lit at dusk

Full-height outdoor stone fireplace anchoring a patio seating area — The same fireplace anchoring the patio by day

Indoor natural stone fireplace surround with a wood mantel — Natural stone surround with a timber mantel

White stone fireplace surround with hearth and wood mantel — White stone surround and raised hearth

Common questions about BBQs & fire features

Do you build around appliances we choose?

Yes — that’s how most projects work. You pick the grill, doors, fridge, or side burners you want, and we build the island to their exact cut-out specs. The projects on this page include built-ins from Lynx and other major brands, all fitted into stone, brick, and concrete islands built to last outdoors.

What are the countertops made of?

Most of our islands are topped with poured-in-place concrete — smooth-troweled, sealed, and comfortable to lean on. It handles heat, sun, and salt air better than almost anything else, and it can be formed into curves, waterfalls, and floating benches that slab materials can’t match.

Are the fire pits wood or gas?

Nearly all of the fire pits and fire tables shown here are gas, finished with fire glass or lava stone — clean, instant, and legal to run on a spare-the-air day. If you have an existing wood-burning pit, converting it to gas is usually straightforward.

Can you reface our existing fireplace?

Yes. If the firebox is sound, we can reface the surround in stacked stone, brick, or natural stone veneer and rebuild the hearth — the before-and-after on this page shows exactly that. It’s one of the fastest ways to transform a living room.

What does a BBQ island or fire pit cost?

It ranges widely — a simple gas fire pit is a very different project from a full outdoor kitchen with appliances and a concrete counter. Size, materials, gas and electrical runs, and appliance choices all play in. Estimates are always free: call (310) 539-8023 and we’ll talk through what you have in mind.

Let’s build something that lasts

44 years of South Bay craftsmanship, one phone call away. Estimates are always free.

Call (310) 539-8023