Marietta Outdoor Kitchen & Patio Retreat

Jun 4

This space didn't exist six months ago.

Under this Marietta deck sat years of overgrown shrubs and wasted potential — a generous footprint that nobody had ever thought to use. We saw an outdoor kitchen, a flagstone bar, and the best seat in the house.

Working alongside our friends at Jake Warren Landscapes, that's exactly what we built.

The Homeowner

The client is an Atlanta-trained artist with a real eye for materials — the kind of person who has poured her own concrete countertops not because she had to, but because she knew exactly what she wanted and trusted herself to get there. When she brought us in, she wasn't handing over the vision. She was looking for people who could match it.

That raised the bar on everything — in the best way.

Finding the Right Stone

The design called for hand-chiseled medium stack stone. Warm, irregular, tactile. The kind of masonry that looks like it belongs there rather than arrived on a pallet.

Finding it took days. We visited multiple suppliers alongside our mason, pulling pieces and holding them up, rejecting anything too uniform or too clean. The thickness had to vary. The corners had to feel found, not fabricated. When you have a client with a sculptor's eye, you do the work to get the material right.

Once we had the right stone, the build moved fast — CMU block structural core, stone veneer set by hand, every piece cut and dry-fit before any mortar touched it.

The Kitchen

At the center of it all: a Big Green Egg XL set into its own stone surround. Flanking it, a Coyote stainless grill for everyday high-heat cooking. Stainless access doors and drawer units below keep everything within reach without cluttering the visual line of the stone.

The bar counter runs the full length of the seating side — a premium slab flagstone top, thick and rough-edged, selected for its natural color variation. It overhangs generously for bar seating, putting guests right in the middle of the action.

The flagstone patio ties the whole space together underfoot, connecting the kitchen to the seating area and the stairs above. A space that moves the way a well-designed outdoor room should.

The Collaboration

Jake Warren Landscapes handled the surrounding landscape design, planting, and hardscape elements that frame the kitchen and give the whole space its sense of arrival. The integration between their scope and ours is what makes this feel like a complete outdoor living space rather than a kitchen dropped into a backyard.

We work with Jake Warren Landscapes regularly across Marietta, Roswell, and the Atlanta northside. This is what happens when landscape and design-build teams share a vision from day one.

The Result

A space that didn't exist became the most-used room in the house. Built to the homeowner's standards, finished to last, and sitting steps away from the pool for the kind of entertaining this backyard was always meant to do.