Stainless Steel Outdoor Cabinetry

Built from marine-grade stainless with welded seams and available in powder coat colors, it's engineered to never need replacing.

Maintenance is genuinely very low: the material itself asks for nothing to survive salt air, sun, and storms. The honest caveat for Florida homeowners is appearance, not durability — humidity makes dust and grime cling to bare polished stainless, so keeping it showroom-shiny takes regular wiping.

Powder coated colors are somewhat easier to keep clean, though they don't hide dust either.

HL Posey Builders designs and installs cabinetry from both John Michael Kitchens and Danver, two of the largest stainless outdoor cabinetry manufacturers in the USA.

This is the finish you choose when you're done choosing:

• It outlives everything. Marine-grade stainless doesn't rot, warp, burn, or fade. Installed right, it's a lifetime product.

• It's real cabinetry. Doors, drawers, appliance cabinets, wall cabinets — engineered like your indoor kitchen, built for outdoors.

• Sleek and contemporary, or softened with color. Clean modern lines in bare stainless, or dozens of powder coat colors to match any design.

• Nothing structural to maintain. No sealing, no painting, no refinishing, ever.



Think about your indoor kitchen. You didn't buy it planning to replace it in a few years. Stainless is that decision, made outdoors.

John Michael Kitchens™

John Michael Kitchens™ builds handcrafted marine-grade stainless cabinetry — and in our experience they're exceptional from the first contact until we snap the photos of the finished kitchen. If your style runs to clean, sleek lines or a contemporary shaker look, this is your cabinetry.

The John Michael difference:

• 316L marine-grade stainless outside, 304 stainless inside — the marine-grade exterior is the corrosion standard for coastal Florida

• All seams welded and polished — no pop rivets or dimple rivets

• 14 and 18 gauge stainless — thicker, heavier material (remember: the smaller the gauge number, the thicker the steel)

• Weather seals on doors and drawers — keep bugs, frogs, and weather out

• Many powder coat colors  — tough finishes, not paint or oxides that scratch and peel

• Stainless steel adjustable leveling legs — not plastic

• Vox vent hoods by John Michael — custom hoods in a wide range of signature colors and metallic finishes, so your hood matches your kitchen

John Michael has since expanded into indoor kitchen cabinetry as well — the same handcrafted metal cabinetry, inside and out.

We tell every client the good, the bad, and the ugly before they spend a dollar. Here's the part nobody else will tell you.

Maintenance and housekeeping are two different things. Structurally, stainless is the lowest-maintenance finish we offer — the material needs nothing from you to survive salt air, sun, and storms for decades. That claim is real.

But keeping bare polished stainless looking pristine in Florida takes effort. Our humidity makes dust and grime cling to the surface, so a shiny stainless kitchen shows every water spot, fingerprint, and bit of dust between wipe-downs. It's not a defect and it's not a durability problem — it's simply what polished metal does in this climate.

Powder coated colors are somewhat easier to keep clean, and they're what we often steer Florida clients toward. Be clear-eyed, though: powder coat doesn't hide dust and dirt either. No stainless kitchen is a set-it-and-forget-it showpiece here.

If you want the finest, longest-lasting cabinetry made and you don't mind a regular wipe-down to keep it gleaming, stainless is unbeatable. If you'd rather your kitchen look great with less attention, tile or NatureKast may serve you better — and we'll say so.