Winter is the perfect time to cook up a storm.  Whether your talents tend towards soups, stews, roasts, five-course gourmet dinners, delicious cakes and pies – or all of the above – a fabulous kitchen makes it all so much easier.

Celebrity chef Giada De Laurentiis recently sold her $7 million dollar home, which included an amazing kitchen you may have seen on her cooking show “Giada at Home.”  Giada’s sleek modern kitchen includes an extra-long 24-foot island, a glass-cased wine room and a summer kitchen with a grill and sink, not to mention every conceivable gadget and amenity.  Take a peek here.  Assuming you don’t have millions to spend on a kitchen, you might simply enhance your space with what’s trending now.  That includes a move away from center islands, to traditional kitchen tables, some vintage, some new, but all designed to add a homey warmth to the kitchen.

Michelle Brunner, writing for the Philadelphia Inquirer, covers the trend here.  Of course, if you’re building a new home, you can create whatever you like – especially if you’re building a Paone home. Share your vision with us and we’ll cook up the perfect combination of style and functionality!

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