Outdoor kitchens are booming — and the price tags are eye-watering
Australia's growing love affair with year-round entertaining shows no sign of cooling.
Not long ago, an "outdoor kitchen" meant a barbecue and a bag of ice. Today, it means induction cooktops, integrated fridges, custom stonework and, increasingly, plumbed espresso.
The average high-end build is now clearing $180,000 — a figure that would have felt absurd five years ago.
Builders say demand has doubled in 18 months. Waiting lists are running past a year.
The full report reveals internal communications, previously undisclosed timelines, and verified source material that reshapes the entire narrative around this story. Subscribers get the complete investigation, including on-the-record interviews.
Behind closed doors, decisions were being made that neither the public nor most of the staff had any awareness of at the time — a pattern that our reporting suggests goes far deeper than anyone has admitted publicly.
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