BUILDING OUR DREAM OUTDOOR KITCHEN | DIY Bethan & Joe

We're finally starting the outdoor kitchen. Welcome back to the channel. If you're new here, welcome to the family. Joe promised you that he was going to do a garden kitchen in our gorgeous garden. And I'm finally able to start it. If you are new to the channel, we live in a three bed semi-detached new build house. It was built by Lyndon Holmes. And last year, Joe decided that he wanted to completely transform the garden. So with the help of his dad, my dad, his uncle, a digger, they managed to transform our garden with a massive hill in it to a split level patio garden with steps and beautiful big planters. Good afternoon, everyone. I've got some timber that's just about to be delivered. Once that's arrived, I'm going to get in and start pulling together a bit of a plan for the frame. That was nice and quick. I thought we were going to have to get it off by hand, but he had a crane lorry. This is the area where the outdoor kitchen is going. What I'm going to do is start to build the frame. I've only got the timber for the frame because I need to decide what I'm going to do for the outside of it. But if I get the frame started, hopefully it will evolve. It might look similar to the paneling we've got on the planters, or I might do it kind of like fencing, feather edge kind of timber. Yeah, this is a complete DIY first time attempt at an outdoor kitchen, but we'll see how it goes. And you'll see how it goes when you're following this little series. And hopefully at the end of it, we'll have a nice shiny outdoor kitchen with a little space so we can have barbecues and enjoy the garden. Okay, so the wood I've gone for is 4x2 and it's treated, so it's okay to be left outside, but this will be covered up by whatever cladding that goes onto it. Morning everyone, it is day two of starting the garden kitchen. Day one consisted of getting the wood delivered, then I went to go get the chop saw and realized I forgot the transformer. So then I had to go back this morning and get it. So really all I did was set up so I could start. Today's plan is to build the frame of the garden kitchen. Joe's got the wood, like he said, that got delivered yesterday. I'm going to make some fuel for the day, pancakes, so that we can get cracking, I guess. When I say we, I'm going to be the cameraman of this video and Joe's going to be the creator of the garden kitchen, because as you guys know, I'm not particularly handy with a chop saw. Here's me standing with my fishing pliers and felt tip pen. Yeah, you look like you're ready to cut on a chop saw. I've never been able to put pens in my hair because they fall out. I always used to put it in my hair. Did you actually? No you didn't. I used to work at That is the base done, I think. What I've spent my time doing with this base is just making sure that it was square. This will obviously be where everything's getting built up from. Getting this right is obviously important, but yeah, it's taking shape. You can obviously see the footprint now of where it's going to be and then just build up from there. So far, so good. I am getting a fridge off my cousin. It's like a drinks fridge with a glass front and we were just out here trying to decide the height of it. I need to basically get the measurements of it because we were looking at putting it like over a meter tall. Joe was like, oh I'll put it up here and I was like, I'll be in the kitchen like this. Get a high chair. We need it like a standard kitchen level. Yeah, we need to know how big the fridge is. Got the fridge. Blimey, it looks heavy. Scratch the door to pieces. Decided that the fridge is going to go here, barbecue in the middle and then covered on the end for all the like garden plates and stuff. This fridge, we can't decide whether we're going to put a door in front of it or leave it so it's unshy. I think we might even be able to paint it the front of it. I don't think that's going to look very good. The metal bit and then we can get like some glass tint or mirror or something to go on the outside. We'll see. Yeah, I feel like that's the mind of the details. It looks good. This is how useful I am guys. I'm sat here reading a book. So I think Joe has complete day one of the garden kitchen. Probably the most boring part, isn't it? But the most necessary. So barbecues going here, which is why there's a gap because you're going to work out. I need to cut this down, basically move the bit that I cut out down a bit and then re-build it in. So build a lower level basically. Perfect. So the drinks, put them in the top. I feel like you can already start to see it coming together in literally a day. Pretty good that. So guys, look at our flower here. Wow. That went wild. Yeah. When we come back from being away, I think it was raining quite a lot whilst we were away, so everything's just grown. The garden is just like literally thriving. I feel like these look like weeds, but they're actually forget-me-nots. But yeah, everything's just grown loads. All in a good day's work, honey. Have you got sawdust on your hair like you normally do? Look like you've been in the snow again. Classic. Hello. So we're on weekend two of the outdoor kitchen build. I don't think I showed you where I got to after day two, because I showed you on Saturday of like the first set of the frame, but what I done on Sunday was build this, which is like the recess for where the barbecue is going to go. It hasn't got the back on it yet, but the barbecue should be coming in the week. So what I've done is just put these crossmembers on and then reinforced this bit. So it's like really solid now. And also I did these back bits. These are screwed to the back of the frame, and then there's going to be sort of horizontal slats going across, and we're going to paint it the same colour as what we paint in the outdoor kitchen. Used the fridge last night. So the fridge is in there. It's a bit noisy, but fridge works. We're about to get this, which is the worktop, where it's going to form the base of the worktop. The plan with the top of it, as I mentioned in the design video, is to get some tiles and tile it. So I've got some backer board to stick to this and then there's going to be tiles going across the worktop. Now, obviously, because it's going to have a barbecue on it, there's going to be cement board, which is fireproof, non-combustible. So that will be sat where the barbecue is, just to give it a bit more safety. Obviously, timber is flammable, so we don't want the whole thing going up in flames. I found these doors, which I'll just put a picture up here. They're like stainless steel outdoor kitchen doors, and they're actually quite reasonable. I think they're about 50 quid each door. I need, obviously, two doors underneath the barbecue and one door next to in the big cupboard. Dilemma that I've got is what I'm going to do on the outside of it, because, as you can see from the planters, we've cladded these and they're obviously vertical lines. There's vertical lines on the fence. So I've changed my mind between three or four different options about 3 million times. I go from one to the other, to the other, back to the first one, then to the last one, then to the second one. But I just can't make my mind up. Like I said, I've not got the skills of what some people might have. That is the worktop on, and it's starting to take shape now. I need to cut this bit out, obviously, for the barbecue. It's just started to rain. So I think that is me done for a little while, because that plywood that I've used isn't marine ply. So if it gets wet, it's going to start delaminating. So I've had to cover it over. I mean, I wanted to get that cut out. If it stops in the next little while, then I will do. Good morning, everyone. It is Sunday today. I'm feeling a bit worse for wear, because we were up till really late at a family party last night. I did mention about that we were going out. I actually drove, so I'm not guilty. I don't really drink a lot anymore. So I feel like I'm feeling the effects more. This year, we barely drank. But I think just with the engagement and everything, we've had a few celebrations, of course. And it wasn't a majorly... It was just a long afternoon, wasn't it? Yeah, we were out too. And you've always got a drink in your hand. By 3 o'clock in the morning, it takes its toll, doesn't it? Today, we're going to go and have a look at some tiles, which means that I can actually get involved, because I haven't really been involved in any of the creation of this garden kitchen. All right, we're at Tops Tiles, and we're going to go and have a look and see if we can find some tiles for the top. I didn't even realise. I didn't even mean to say that. We're at Tops Tiles, trying to find some tiles for the top. Come on inside. We're looking for patterned tiles. whole morning going all over the place. We went to Tops Tiles. The tiles in there are so expensive. We were like, this is just craziness. It was like £80 for like two little square meters of tiles that we liked. So we decided to not go with that option. My mum and dad actually had a load of tiles left over. They did like a little tiled area in a section of their garden, I think it was last year. And they had a load of tiles left over, which were pretty much the exact same as the ones that we saw in Tops Tiles. My dad was saying if we didn't use them, he would take them to the So we went to collect them from my parents' house, which is a bit of a drive. So we've just spent the morning doing that. And then we decided to have a coffee with them. So it's now literally like 3pm and we're still not home because Joe's decided that he needs some tile spaces before he can get tile in. So we're now in home base. Days like this remind me of like when we first moved in the house and we would just spend the whole day like going to Wicks, home base, being keen. Then we'd be like, I was just saying to Joe, honestly, I don't know whether this is just a male thing, but I'm going to have to get him to start writing lists when we are doing stuff like this of what we need. Because we genuinely will go to his mum and dad's because his dad has loads of tools and stuff, as a lot of you guys will know. We go to his mum and dad's and we'll go to like home base or Wicks and then he's like, oh no way, I need to go back to my mum and dad's to collect this. I've forgotten this. So I'm going to get him to write a list in the future, in the morning of what he needs and then we can go out and get it all at once and not spend the whole day in the car because that's pretty much what we've done today. Not on my own, you know, at the end of the day, I have no idea what we're doing. Must have been a bit windy out here. Right, we're back in the garden, back where we belong. After a long day of being in the car, going here, there and everywhere, I was telling them about the fact that I need you to start writing lists. This is looking amazing already. I'm going to cut, yesterday I was going to cut this area out for the barbecue, so I'm just going to do that now. Oh okay, so we need to cut a slot for the barbecue. Are you going to draw it out? I've drawn it out already. Oh you've drawn it out? Oh yeah, so you have. We've got a barbecue coming hopefully in the next couple of days, so fingers crossed we can get that unboxed in this video for you. But you can definitely see it's taking shape. Do you want to see what them tiles look like on the top? Yeah. Just have a look whether the colour is actually... These are the tiles. I don't think we even properly showed you that my dad had. The colour, what do you reckon? I mean... It doesn't look too bad. No, it doesn't look too bad. It's maybe a little bit cooler than the fence. Oh dear, we're not sure about them. I'll tell you what it is. With the fence and like this white, they look fine, but with the patio and the floor, you probably can't see that much in the video, but our patio slabs are really warm and these are really cool and I just don't know whether they like clash when you kind of... It's probably really hard to see that in the video. I think we were thinking of doing like a kind of like green and white, weren't we? To go with the green pots that we've got dotted around. So annoying because it's like they don't cost us anything and then they don't go to landfill, although I'm sure someone would take them off marketplace for free. That has got to be the most questionable thing I've ever seen you do. Can't be safe. Just come on my laptop to have a little look and see what tiles are online. These are literally the same as the ones that we saw in Tops Tiles earlier. You might have seen them on the clips, but these are just so much cheaper in Tops Tiles. They were like, I swear they were like 50 or 60 pound per meter squared and on here, on Tiles Direct, they're 21.95. Joe reckons we need like three meters squared. Did you want to come and have a look at these tiles? Yeah. See whether you like them. That's not how it's going to look, but that's got the thing back on it. What back on it? A bit like cut out. Just to like give a bit of a... What, say the barbecue's going to sit on top of that? Yeah, but it's going to be cement board. Yeah. My laptop's dead. They're from Tiles Direct. Yeah. Do you think they'd go a bit better? I'm just thinking like the pattern might clash with our pattern of slabs on the floor. I feel like that's kind of part of the issue that we've got on there. So you're thinking we need like plain? Plainer, yeah. Like less busy patterns. It's really hard. This is actually really hard. Yeah, this is the hardest bit. Yeah. Well, I don't know. No, maybe not. Actually, we've had about a million conversations about what you're going to do at the front of it as well. The whole like building the garden kitchen, I feel that has been really hard. And do you know why? Because when you like search up garden kitchens, everyone's is different. Like everyone's got like their unique style and kind of like the kitchen works for them. Yeah. But none of them are what we want, weirdly. Like I thought we'd just find like an inspo picture and we'd like copy it. But we haven't been able to do that at all, have we? Like I haven't seen a single one that works for us. No. Or like works for our garden. It's completely just I'm trying to design it, but also- Yeah, not knowing how it's going to turn out. Not knowing how to do it. It's a Sunday night and we are pretty tired. We've been so busy, as well as Joe trying to do the garden kitchen. We've obviously just got engaged, been trying to celebrate with our like family and friends. And it has been a lot recently. So I think we might like try and do bits in the evening this week. Should we sign off for today and then we'll pick up the camera again? Yeah, hopefully tomorrow. Sorry this video is a bit disjointed in days, but hopefully it's still enjoyable for you guys. We were hoping to be able to show you the barbecue that we ordered, but it's not arrived. So we're going to have to show you in the next video. Yeah, really annoying because we definitely thought we were going to like show you it in the actual garden kitchen. We have actually decided on tiles as well. So stay tuned for the next video because you're going to see it all come together. Let us know what you think we should do of the outside of the outdoor kitchen because we're still thinking about a couple of options. So let us know in the comments what we should do and let us know what colour you think we should paint it as well. We don't know what's best. So we need your guys advice. Hopefully you enjoy part one of the garden kitchen. I feel like you've done a solid job considering you've never done a garden kitchen before. But if you did enjoy the video, you know what to do. Subscribe to our channel. Come back next week for some more fun and games. Bye. Peace.