Jupiter Pergola is now an official dealer for WeatherStrong outdoor cabinetry. Below is the full range — islands, door styles, finishes, appliances and warranty — and what we would tell you about each if you were standing in the driveway with us.
Images show the WeatherStrong range across different configurations and finishes.
Indoor cabinets do not belong outside
Most outdoor kitchens in South Florida fail from the cabinets down. Marine plywood swells. Stainless pits in salt air within sight of the water. Powder-coated frames chalk under UV running at full strength eleven months a year. The grill outlives the box it sits in, and the rebuild costs more than the original because the countertop and the utilities have to come out with it.
Cabinetry built for outdoors is a different product, not an indoor product with a tougher finish. That is why we went looking for a manufacturer rather than fabricating boxes ourselves.
Why WeatherStrong
WeatherStrong builds weather-resistant outdoor cabinetry in Bartow, Florida, assembled in the USA and engineered against sun, rain and salt air. Family-owned, more than fourteen years at it, and over seventy thousand cabinets shipped since 2015. Building in Florida matters more than it sounds: a company shipping from a dry climate is designing against a problem it has never had to live with.
Cabinets are built to order in roughly ten days. For custom outdoor cabinetry that is fast, and it means the kitchen is not the thing holding up your project.
How it is built
The first question anyone sensible asks is what the things are actually made of. The answer is WeatherStrong’s own All-Weatherboard® construction, with doors and drawer fronts in high-density polyethylene — HDPE, the same family of material used for marine and dock furniture.
That matters because of what HDPE cannot do. It has no grain to swell, no laminate layer to lift, and no substrate underneath waiting to find moisture. Wood-based cabinetry outdoors fails when water gets past the finish; there is nothing here for water to get into. It resists moisture, UV and temperature swings without warping, swelling or fading, and the surfaces shed stains and grime rather than holding them in a texture.
Then the detail almost nobody asks about and everybody eventually regrets — the hardware is outdoor-rated stainless throughout, hinges and handles included. Cabinet boxes rarely fail first. Hinges do. A door that sags, grinds or seizes is what makes an outdoor kitchen feel old, and within sight of the Intracoastal it can happen in a couple of seasons to hardware that was only ever specified for a kitchen with walls around it.
It is semi-custom rather than mass-produced: built to your order, shipped in about ten business days. And it reads as cabinetry rather than equipment — a run of flat stainless looks like a commercial kitchen parked in a garden, which is the right answer for some houses and the wrong one for most.
Pre-configured islands
We supply and install both routes — pre-configured islands and fully custom runs — so the answer is whichever genuinely suits the space rather than whichever we happen to stock.
Seven island layouts, each arriving as fully assembled cabinets with countertop and hardware. If your space is straightforward, this is the sensible route — you are not paying for design time you do not need.
- Surf — 50″
The compact one. A grill and the working space around it, for a balcony, a courtyard, or a deck where a full run would crowd the space. - Horizon — 68″
Grill, prep and storage in balance. The default answer for most backyards, and the one we specify most often. - Lagoon — 74″
Prep and storage without a grill. For anyone already committed to a built-in they own, or building the cooking zone separately. - Sandbar — 86″
Built around entertaining rather than cooking. More counter to put things down on, which is what people actually run out of. - Sandbar with Burner — 86″
The same footprint with a side burner added. Worth it if sauces and sides currently mean walking back indoors. - Bayside — 90″
Adds refrigeration. The point at which the kitchen stops being a grill station and starts being somewhere you stay. - Breakwater — 126″
The full run: refrigeration and a side burner. Needs the space to carry it, and looks undersized in a yard that has more.
Most of the grill-equipped configurations include a thirty-two-inch grill.
Pre-set islands arrive assembled. Left, a compact freestanding run; right, a longer layout with refrigeration and a sink.
Fully custom
Built to your layout when the space has an opinion of its own: a wrapping bar, an awkward pool-deck geometry, a run that has to clear a slider, appliances you already own, or a shape that has to work around a structure rather than sit in the middle of a lawn.
One thing worth knowing before you choose: custom cabinets carry a longer warranty than the pre-set islands. If you are on the fence between a large island and a custom run, that difference belongs in the decision.
Custom runs follow the space rather than a catalogue: a cook line with the dining table built into it, or a bar height that lets people sit facing the pool.
Door styles
Four collections. The door is what you actually look at, so this is a bigger decision than it appears on a spec sheet.
- Sanibel
- Daytona
- Miami
- Tampa
The door is most of what you see. A slatted profile and a shaker profile in the same material read as two completely different kitchens.
Finishes
Seventeen, across timber tones, greys, whites and saturated colours:
- Teak · Hickory · Mahogany · Ironwood · Weatherwood · Dock Brown
- Shell White · Whitewash · Bluff Beige
- Lighthouse Gray · Shoreline Gray · Dark Ash · Pitch Black · Wrought Iron
- Sapphire Blue · Reef Blue · Emerald Green
Order samples before you commit. They come as seven-inch door samples and the first two are free. Outdoor light is unforgiving and a finish chosen on a screen, or under showroom lighting, can look like a different colour entirely at four o’clock on a Florida afternoon. We would rather you spent a week living with two samples on the patio than a decade living with the wrong one.
Grills and appliances
The appliance line is branded Jupiter. It is WeatherStrong’s brand rather than ours — but it is a coincidence we are quietly pleased about. Jupiter grills, fitted in Jupiter, by Jupiter Pergola.
- Classic Series grill — the standard build, included with most island configurations
- Pro Series grill — the upgrade, for anyone who cooks seriously rather than occasionally
- Side burner — included on two of the island configurations, available on custom
- Outdoor refrigerator — rated for outdoor use, which a standard under-counter unit is not
If you already own a built-in you like, keep it. Cabinetry can be built around an existing appliance, and there is no sense replacing a grill that works.
Countertops
The cabinets carry granite, marble, quartz, tile and other standard surfaces, so the countertop is a design decision rather than a structural constraint. Whatever you choose, follow that supplier’s own care guidance — a stone that is faultless indoors can behave differently under direct Florida sun, and the countertop is usually the shorter-lived half of an outdoor kitchen.
Looking after it
The cabinets themselves need almost nothing: water and a soft cloth, or mild dish soap for anything stubborn.
The part worth telling you before you buy rather than after: the stainless components want cleaning several times a month to lift salt deposits. Not because the hardware is weak — it is outdoor-rated throughout — but because salt left sitting on stainless is what starts corrosion, and near the water in Palm Beach or Martin County the air deposits it continuously whether or not it has rained. Five minutes with a damp cloth every couple of weeks is the whole maintenance regime, and skipping it is the most common way a good outdoor kitchen starts to look tired.
Warranty
- Custom cabinets and grills — limited lifetime warranty
- Island Series cabinets — 25-year limited warranty
- Countertops and refrigerators — one year
All of it covers defects in materials and workmanship under normal residential use, and we will walk you through what that means for your project rather than leaving you to find out afterwards.
The warranty passes through us. If something needs putting right you call Jupiter Pergola, not a manufacturer’s line in another county, and you are not describing a hinge over the phone to somebody who has never seen your kitchen. The people who installed it are the people who come back to it. That is most of the difference between a dealer and a delivery.
Why buy it from us rather than online
You can order outdoor cabinets on the internet. What arrives is a pallet.
An outdoor kitchen is gas, electric, water and a structure, and across Palm Beach, Martin and St. Lucie counties most of that is permitted work. Jupiter Pergola holds a Florida general contractor licence and a Florida electrical contractor licence, so the circuits, the lighting over the cook space, the structure above it and the cabinetry are one company and one permit set. Nobody is waiting on a subcontractor, and there is nobody to point at when something needs sorting out.
That matters more here than in most trades. The failure mode of an outdoor kitchen is rarely the cabinets on day one. It is the electrical run that was not specified for outdoor use, the appliance cut-out that did not allow for clearance, or a beautiful island installed exactly where the afternoon sun makes it unusable from two o’clock onwards.
The roof over it
Cabinetry engineered for the elements will survive being left in the open. Whether you will is another question. Shade over the cook space is the difference between a kitchen used year-round and one used in March and November.
A motorized louvered roof suits a kitchen better than a solid cover: open the louvers while the grill is running to let heat and smoke out, then close them when weather comes through. Worth being straight about what closed means — no motorized louvered roof is fully waterproof. Ours is engineered to be the most watertight available, with overlapping louvers closing onto integrated gaskets that feed a built-in gutter and downspout system through the posts, and in ordinary South Florida rain the space stays comfortable and dry. In a hard wind-driven downpour you may see some misting or the occasional drip. If the kitchen has to stay bone dry in any forecast, a solid roof is the right answer and we will say so before you spend the money.
More on that on our outdoor kitchen pergolas and covers page.
Start with a design
Send us the space — a photo, rough dimensions, and how you actually cook. We will tell you honestly whether a pre-set island does the job or whether your layout genuinely needs custom, and we would rather talk you out of the expensive answer than sell it to you.
Call (561) 826-9200 or request a consultation. Serving Palm Beach, Martin and St. Lucie Counties.
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