Really I was building this while building the main cabinet (see part 4), but it made sense to separate it into its own deal here.
We wanted a wood-fired pizza oven because why would we not, but my concern was proximity to the house, ie I wasn’t particularly comfortable having a 600+ degree fire a few inches away from my cedar-shake sided house even if the unit is insulated. But I also needed to protect it from the weather because let’s be honest–I’m not going to cover it.
So my solution was to build a mobile cabinet for it that would live up against the house and under the roof, but then could be moved out into open air when being used. Note that if you plan to do this, get the heaviest-duty casters you can buy, because this sucker is heavy.
The design is very simple–just a wood-framed box that would hold a stainless steel stacked drawer insert and a tiled top with a recess to keep the oven unit sitting securely in.
The top was a plywood base and then PVC trim pieces to build up a rim. The pizza oven sits on four short legs, so I built the top to fit snugly around them so when moving and jostling it wouldn’t have anywhere to move.
The top was then covered in scrap metal and cement board for insulation, then the rim tile, and the cabinet with stone veneer.
Then of course the front and sides were covered in stone veneer. I covered the back with some leftover ply paneling since it would be up against the house most of the time, and built a rack for tools to hang on it.
Of course I was careful to match the countertop height to the main counter so it looked continuous.
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All that remained was the side cabinet, which would include a cold plunge, and some fairly major landscaping. Read it