Name: Anna
Location: Miami
Rent or own? Rent
What does your kitchen need? A whole new look. It has pink tile counters and a matching tile back splash and old while cabinets. More

Name: Samantha and Jacob
Location: Berkeley, California
Rent or own? Rent
What does your kitchen need? Oh good lord, what DOESN'T it need?! I'm a professional photographer, but I was thisclose to becoming a chef. Having a stylish, welcoming kitchen is just as important to my culinary creativity as the rest of my apartment is to my artistic creativity (since I work from home). More

Name: Ivy
Location: Auckland, New Zealand
Rent or own? Rent
What does your kitchen need? I would like my kitchen to be a colourful and exciting place to be, full of personal touches. I have always dreamed of a yellow kitchen, but recent experience with blue and green kitchens have been equally inspirational. It needs to be pulled together by a few new elements - perhaps coloured cabinets, curtains instead of the broken blinds, perhaps a reorganization of the open storage, a mat or two. More

This kitchen doesn't look too shabby, right? Well, this is the before. The after looks fairly similar, but with some really smart changes that greatly improve functionality without requiring a complete transformation. Can you spot them below? More

Here's an interesting makeover for you: a kitchen that traded in white cabinets for pine cupboards — an opposite direction than we would generally go. Do you think it works? Read on for more photos, and some inspiration, perhaps, for those of you living in kitchens with pine or oak cupboards. More

Name: Jill
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Rent or own? Own

Jill's kitchen is dark, quirky, outdated, and reminiscent of Mad Men's 1960s style. We have some suggestions and inspiration photos for Jill and her budget renovation efforts, but we want to hear your thoughts too. It's our Kitchen Makeover of the week — read on for our ideas and to add your own. More

Last week we asked if you needed a kitchen makeover. Lots of you do, apparently, because we already have an inbox full of submissions! Here's our first attempt to offer a little advice and inspiration to a kitchen in need of a makeover. How would you help improve this kitchen?

Name: Erin and Brendan
Location: Inner Sunset area of San Francisco, California
Rent or own? Rent

Read on for what Erin and Brendan want in their kitchen, plus their constraints. We offer a few tips, ideas, and paint colors. How would you make over this kitchen? More

Do you have a rental kitchen with old cabinets or terrible wallpaper? Are you stuck in an ugly kitchen that you don't have the power (or money) to remodel? We'd love to see it and offer any advice we can to help you spruce it up on a budget. We want to help you love your kitchen and cook in it more often! More

Could you take a dated, 1950s kitchen with brown wood cabinets and unfashionable appliance colors and transform it for just $30? Well, it's possible. Read on for a before photo of this $30 makeover kitchen. More

We just received this simply lovely budget kitchen makeover from reader Leea in central Mexico. She has a rental kitchen, so she couldn't change much, and yet she made a stunning difference — on a budget too! Read on for dramatic before and after photos, as well as Leea's budget makeover tips for rental kitchens. More