Recently we toured the Los Angeles home of Alison Williams who, while running a full business working from home and taking care of her two girls, especially enjoys the many benefits of her lovely bright kitchen! Perfect for family dinners and entertaining, there are lots of seating options, wonderful cooking tools, and perfect lighting. Here's a more in-depth peek at this modern, pretty kitchen.

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Kimberley lives in a rented home with a humble kitchen on Potrero Hill in San Francisco. She doesn't let an ordinary space keep her from making extraordinary food on her colorful cooking blog, The Year in Food. Join me for a peek into this food blogger's kitchen so we can collectively marvel at all the props and trimmings she uses to create beautiful images of food.

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When I asked Dixie whether she used her kitchen, she said, "It depends what you mean by use." That ominous answer immediately tells you that this is not going to be a typical tour for The Kitchn. But what Dixie lacks in cooking acumen, she makes up for in irreverent whimsy and an approach to color in her kitchen that can inspire any cook to make the kitchen a little more playful.

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Katy is an old friend based in Santa Barbara, California. Last year, she shared her cooperative kitchen in Isla Vista, where she cooked dinner for about 30 people each night that she was on cooking duty. Today, Katy and her boyfriend Cassidy invite us to peek into an entirely different kitchen; their tiny cooking spot in their sailboat. This is a creative space where fresh meals are being served up by a gourmand couple who see possibilities within limitations. All aboard!

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Name: America's Test Kitchen
Location: Brookline, MA
Size: 2,500 square feet

If you didn't know it was there, you'd never assume an authority on recipe testing and development was housed in a simple brick building surrounded by condos and coffee shops. Like its popular magazines, America's Test Kitchen doesn't look flashy, but inside it is buzzing with energy and expertise. I took a peek behind the cameras to see how a typical day runs at the culinary nerve center responsible for two TV shows, two magazines, a handful of websites, and countless cookbooks.

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Shauna and her family are inspired by daily rituals such as great coffee and a classic cocktail, so when they were forced to renovate their kitchen after an unfortunate flooding, they made sure to create places for the accoutrements required for these pleasures. This nook was just one of my favorite features in this French‐inspired beautiful kitchen.

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Nick and Rena—London and New York transplants, respectively, who currently live with their two young children in Atlanta—cook a lot. In fact, their kitchen plays host to dozens of home-cooked meals every week. The whole family loves food. Taste, quality, and health are vitally important, but so are cost and logistical necessities. That means very few, if any, meals out, and no frozen dinners or processed foods. It also means a commitment to eating at home, and a lot of shopping, cooking, prepping, and cleaning.

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Lindsay's seasonal, local, loving food blog, Rosemarried, first caught my eye last year. She prepares healthy foods and strives to cook (and live) in the moment. When I realized this blogger and I lived in the same city, I knew I had to check out her kitchen.

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Today's kitchen renovation story is a particularly satisfying one. This is a full-on, top-to-bottom remodel, a dramatic before and after for a young homeowner. While we love smaller remodels too, sometimes it is just really gratifying to watch someone completely transform a kitchen! Alison and her husband bought an inexpensive fixer-upper house and poured their money instead into making their kitchen a lovely place for them to entertain and cook.

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Avery creates luxurious meals and loads of homemade pickles in this 6x5-foot space with just two stove burners. What Avery lacks in square footage, however, she makes up for in tight organization and inventive recipes such as watercress salad with jicama and citronette and venison tenderloin with chimichurri. She's an inspiration to all of us cooking in small kitchens.

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