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(note: deadline has been extended to Monday, April 16th!)

Name: Manolo
Location: San Juan, Puerto Rico
Size & Type: 54 square feet

Favorite resource: eBay is a great source for the small things that can break a budget such as mosaic glass tile (a bargain at $9 per square foot vs. $25 per square foot at a local retailer), faucets and handles.

Inspiration: To maximize space I chose white high gloss cabinets, a black glass ceramic cook-top, a microwave/convection oven instead of a conventional oven, mosaic glass tile to create the illusion of space/depth and a smaller under-mount sink to increase counter space.

(Last week we announced that we would be awarding nineteen Honorable Mentions in our Braising Contest. All of these entrants will be receiving an Apartment Therapy T-Shirt. Over the next week or so we will now try to methodically and swiftly present them all to you with all the winning photos and recipes. Another cold week here in NYC: braise on!)

Vote Here. Below is a test survey that has just been created by Mark over the weekend. It is smart, sexy and foolproof. In advance of our voting starting tomorrow, please give it a test and let us know if you have any problems at all: support @ apartmenttherapy.com. BTW if you have and old browser or a firewall at work, you may have trouble. Solution: pgrade your browser or try from home.

Contest Master here. For my first major act as Contest Master, I hereby decree the new deadline for submissions to the 2007 Smallest Coolest Contest to be midnight (eastern standard time) Monday, April 16th.

While I know that many of you are waiting til tomorrow to submit your great small spaces, there are likely many others who haven't had the time to get it together.

We will still start posting entries next Monday, April 9th, and we will still start the voting then.

Please don't delay. Don't underestimate your talents. And don't worry . It'll be fun. Share your world with us. Enter your home, kitchen, nursery, or office/tech environment now!

If you have any questions, send them to contestmaster AT apartmenttherapy DOT com

We want to see exactly how small your kitchen is. Why don't you enter our Smallest Coolest Kitchen Contest? The competition isn't as fierce as you might think.

How does six months worth of wine sound? That's the prize; it'll look great in your tiny kitchen, and it doesn't take up much room, at least not for long.

Only a few more days left.

Just a few days left until the deadline for the Smallest Coolest Kitchen contest! To help along any of you still wavering on the edge, here a few tips on taking good photos of your kitchen. This is a complement to Jill's excellent photo tips post on the main site - read all the comments, too. Some are very helpful.

Tips and more photos like Geninne's Modern Mexican Abode below... More

In case you haven't noticed, the Smallest Coolest Kitchen 2007 contest is on!

This year we join Apartment Therapy, The Nursery, and Home Tech in a spread of contests that invite you to show what you can do in a small space.

Do you have a kitchen under 65 square feet? Show us how you're living and cooking creatively, efficiently and beautifully. We're taking 20 submissions, and three will win a great wine club subscription from Bottlenotes. Read the rules, take some great photos, and let us know if you have any questions - submissions are due Friday, April 6th!

Smallest, Coolest Month is coming up here at Apartment Therapy, and this time around the Kitchen gets to play too! We'll be hosting the first Smallest, Coolest Kitchen contest. We're going on a month long hunt for the tiniest and most powerful kitchens we can find . . . and we can't wait!

We'll post the full rules, prizes, and directions on how to enter next week. We will start posting submissions here on April 9, and the contest closes on May 7.

We're looking forward to this - seeing a little more of where and how our community cooks. So get your cameras out and get ready to enter!