Full Outdoor Living Build

The best-value way to do this work is all at once. The excavator is already there, the base is being built anyway, and every utility can be sleeved before anything closes up.

1,400 square feet of patio across three zones — dining, cooking, and a sunken fire lounge — with an L-shaped kitchen and a gas fire feature plumbed from the house meter.

Low-voltage lighting throughout: riser lights on the steps, cap lights on the seat walls, and task lighting over the grill.