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The Toronto Sun Features Outeriors: Designing Luxury Outdoor Kitchens for the Canadian Climate

Toronto Sun Homes, June 20, 2026 outdoor kitchen article

Luxury outdoor living just reached a new milestone in the GTA and cottage country. The Toronto Sun recently featured Outeriors in a major spotlight on premium backyard renovations. The feature highlights how homeowners now treat their backyards as true extensions of their indoor hosting spaces rather than secondary thoughts.

The final frontier of custom home design

In the feature, Outeriors President Daniel Albo points out that the outdoor kitchen has officially become the final frontier for custom-built homes. Architects, interior designers, and landscape professionals now include full outdoor kitchens directly in their initial floor plans. This change reflects a permanent shift in how people view their properties.

Design professionals choose our Alumina outdoor kitchens because they match traditional interior cabinetry design language. This familiar framework simplifies the planning process for architects and custom builders. They confidently hand off the technical complexities of outdoor appliances to our team without any risk to their professional reputation.

Woodland Pavilion outdoor kitchen

Engineered for the true Canadian elements

A major concern for any homeowner investing twenty-thousand dollars or more into a custom outdoor space is longevity. Southern Ontario weather tests materials with extreme shifts from summer heat to severe winter freeze-thaw cycles. Lower-quality alternative products often rust, warp, or crack under these intense conditions.

Our Alumina cabinetry solves this specific challenge. We manufacture these custom kitchens right here in Canada using marine-grade powder-coated aluminum. This material choice completely eliminates the need for seasonal covering or winterization. The cabinetry stands up to the snow and ice completely unprotected. In fact, Daniel Albo uses his own outdoor kitchen at least five days a week all year round.

How we handle your project

Most competitors in the outdoor kitchen market simply drop boxes off on your driveway and walk away. Our internal crew manages the heavy physical work to give you a seamless experience. We bring the units into your backyard, perfectly level the cabinetry, install your chosen countertops, and secure the premium grill units exactly where they belong.

We believe in setting clear expectations for a flawless completion. Our team handles the structural layout and placement, but you will need to hire your own licensed gas fitters and electricians. We do not source these trades or manage their individual schedules. Your outdoor kitchen is ready for that first celebration as soon as your utilities are safely hooked up by those external professionals.

Outeriors install team putting countertop into place

See the quality in person

Reading about high-end materials is a good start, but seeing them in person changes your perspective. Outeriors hosts the largest outdoor kitchen showroom in Ontario. Our gallery features 18 fully equipped displays that show exactly how premium marine-grade aluminum, weatherproof resin, and robust countertops come together.

Plan your next space

We serve affluent homeowners and design professionals across the entire GTA and southern Ontario cottage country. Visit our showroom in Vaughan to explore your design options, or contact our team today to schedule your comprehensive design consultation.

Join us at the Living Luxe Design Show

Outeriors trade show booth with outdoor kitchen display

Join us at Booth #5 at the Living Luxe Design Show 2025 in Toronto! Outeriors will showcase our custom outdoor cabinetry — luxurious, innovative solutions that transform outdoor kitchens into elegant, functional retreats. Experience the future of outdoor living and discover how our premium designs blend style, durability, and sophistication.

The Living Luxe Design Show (LLDS) runs April 24-27, 2025 at the Toronto Congress Centre.

The 2025 show will feature some of the finest designers & lifestyle businesses the city has to offer. Spanning over 120,000 square feet at the Toronto Congress Centre, our Spring show is sure to provide the opportunity for organic connections, strategic partnerships, innovative showcases, and inspiration galore.

National Post – Modern Living: Beyond the Barbecue

National Post article featuring Outeriors

The National Post interviewed Outeriors president Daniel Albo for an article titled Modern living: Beyond the barbecue. It looks at how outdoor kitchens have become as high-functioning and well-designed as indoor kitchens and how the pandemic has impacted home design.

The article also looks at:

  • outdoor kitchen trends
  • how people are using their outdoor living spaces
  • outdoor kitchen design tips

4 takeaway quotes from Outeriors

Here are some of the takeaway quotes from Albo’s portion of the article, which provides some interesting insight into modern outdoor kitchen design trends:

  1. “There’s no question we aggressively grew our business post-2019 as a result of COVID. When restaurants were closed, people couldn’t entertain indoors, making the outdoor landscape and outdoor kitchens a new-found entertaining space.”
  2. “Any luxury feature that can go into an indoor kitchen can go outdoors.”
  3. “When we started the business six years ago, rustic-looking materials were trending like traditional wood shaker-panel doors and intricate cabinetry. Post-COVID, people are gravitating to flat-panel cabinetry and a minimalistic look. Powder-coated marine-grade aluminum has taken off.”
  4. “Darker shades make up 90 percent of our projects. The colours we see most often are Harbour Blue, which is a deep tone, Graphite, a gunmetal grey, or Mika, a taupe-bronze.”

View the full article here on the National Post’s website.

Toronto Sun: Bringing Heart of the Home to the Great Outdoors

Outeriors president Daniel Albo was recently interviewed by the Toronto Sun for an article in their Homes section.

Albo talks about how the demand for outdoor kitchens is soaring as Canadians take advantage of the warm weather to use their backyards more.

Outdoor cooking spaces are also more popular than ever as a post-pandemic world beckons, which means the return of backyard gatherings.

Albo shares his expertise to explain what essentials outdoor kitchens should include, design tips, outdoor cooking space trends, and price ranges for an outdoor kitchen project.

View the article here on the Toronto Sun’s website.

Download the article as a PDF here.

Toronto Sun news story