Betty is an interior designer who works from home, and the mom of a tween. Her kitchen island plays host to design clients as easily as to many a play date!

Doryn is a designer, and like the rest of her Manhattan home, her kitchen is impeccably put together. It is both easy on the eye and easy on the hands.

Sabrina Soto is an HGTV celebrity, but that doesn't mean she doesn't like to cook and eat meals at home. In fact, as a recent tranplant from DC, maybe someone will give her the memo that such behavior is rare in New York.

Jane is a designer and as such, has pretty definitive positions on all things aesthetic. Her kitchen is no exception. Here vision here was for warm wood, neutral colors, and striking accents amidst a functional space.

Laura fully renovated her studio apartment and its bathroom a couple of years ago, but she wanted to think about the kitchen for a while — not to mention save up for something good! And she has it now: A cool green kitchen for her small city studio, with just enough space and efficiency to cook well.

A long-time food blogger and serious mixologist, Laura loves to experiment in her kitchen. When it came time to renovate, she chose a number of traditional elements that were reliable and would serve a working kitchen long into the future.

Johanna and Dennis had a year to plan their fantasy kitchen. Prior to that, they made the best of a makeshift kitchen typical of early 20th century tenement studio apartments in New York City.

Marsha and Javier met on a Greyhound bus, each en route to respective Thanksgiving festivities. Now they've merged their lives along with their belongings in one New York City apartment. They've combined households, hobbies, and skill sets — but, they confess, neither of them had a history of slaving away at the stove.

Fortunately their excitement and love for one another in this new relationship has created a fresh exuberance in the kitchen, which they renovated to help launch them into a new life of domesticity and good home cooking — together.

Come peek into their little city kitchen, watch them whip up a batch of cornbread, and see my own favorite element of their kitchen: A cozy reading nook, complete with books and art.

Tom loves to cook. In fact Tom uses a variety of different types of salts, depending on where he is standing in his kitchen and what is being prepared. And his kitchen is not that big!

Sara and Tom bought their Bed Stuy home a couple of years ago. Since then, they've put a super-human level of blood, sweat and tears into it, inch by carefully calcuated and curated inch. But the priority was a new kitchen.

Our interview began by Caroline letting me know that when she cooks, she prefers to have "nothing on but the radio." For our kitchen tour, however, she donned a festive apron, with the caveat that "an apron is best without anything else on."