Spice Up My Kitchen

The Wilson family's boring, black and white kitchen gets filled with color and modern style by host Lauren Lake and her team.

The Carters have a beautiful, 120-year-old home, but a kitchen makeover is long overdue. They infuse a bit of art deco style into the space and add a new breakfast area, while improving the flow into the rest of the house.

The Jennings want to bring the outdoors into their kitchen, so host Lauren Lake and her crew start by knocking down walls and bringing in a hand-painted mural in this rustic kitchen makeover.

The Matthews family has a wonderful beach house, but its kitchen is lopsided and outdated. Host Lauren Lake and her team transform the room into a beautiful oceanside retreat with lots of inspiration from the shore it sits on.

The Warringtons are a well-traveled, worldly couple who want to bring a bit of Zen into the kitchen for their family of five.

The Li family has an old, outdated kitchen in their suburban home, and they undergo a modern, eco-friendly renovation.

The Cases have a big house with big rooms, but it's almost as if the tiny kitchen were an afterthought. Host Lauren Lake and her crew complete an amazing, large-scale transformation that includes a hand-painted backsplash and a custom stone hood in this rustic kitchen re-do.

A young couple gets a cottage-style kitchen makeover that includes flip-flopping their kitchen and dining room and removing walls to increase flow in their space.

A deserving mother gets a much-needed kitchen makeover after surviving with dysfunctional appliances for so long. Her new kitchen not only includes top-of-the-line appliances, but also bright colors and sensational country-inspired style.

The Stojek's kitchen is something like a giant maze. On top of the bad layout, there are peeling linoleum floors, fake brick vinyl sheets, a serious lack of storage and an oven sitting right in the middle of the room.

Poorly laid out cabinets, an old cooktop, laminate countertops, backsplash and floors and a garish light fixture have the McNichol's simmering over their kitchen.

A kitchen with no drawers is hardly a kitchen at all.  

Even June Cleaver would say this kitchen is dysfuctional. Blue-green metal cabinets provide insufficient storage, old appliances are inefficient, countertops are easily scratched and the sink is outdated and rusty.

Avocado green appliances and pink bathroom tile -- one of the worst color combinations to grace any kitchen! In addition, this kitchen has a cramped floorplan, very little storage and two different kinds of laminate flooring.

The Deppe's kitchen is a DIY design gone wrong. It lacks enough storage space for all their dishes, glasses, pots and pans -- as well as a vent hood, garbage disposal and dishwasher.

These homeowners are on the verge of a pink kitchen meltdown. A kitchen drowning in pink gets resuscitated.

Rebecca and Ryan Northington have a kitchen from the 1930's with metal cabinets so rusty that they are dangerous.

A couple gets help turning a DIY nightmare into a Victorian dream kitchen.

A beautiful home with a really ugly kitchen - the Spice crew comes to the rescue!

A contractor's wife calls in the big guns...the Spice Up My Kitchen crew!

A beautiful new kitchen that is also environmentally friendly.

Everything about this kitchen says electrifying...especially all the dangling wires.

The previous owners loved their DIY shenanigans, unfortunately the kitchen paid the real price.

They say the kitchen is the heart of the home. Well this home needs a transplant -- STAT!

The Scheiners have beautiful kids, a beautiful home and a kitchen from the 1980s.

It's dysfunctional with tons of holes. Not their relationship, but their kitchen of course.

Baby makes three, and the dishwasher on wheels just makes this place a mess.

This kitchen is one of a kind ' one the world could live without. Time for a tasteful renovation!

Their '70s kitchen, complete with ancient appliances and bad wallpaper, gets an eco-friendly update.

A dreary kitchen gets a much-needed makeover, with new cabinets, fresh paint and fixtures.

She hopes that a kitchen remodel will give her the much-needed counter space she needs for cooking.

A first-time homeowner tackles her old kitchen. Will she get the beautiful new kitchen she wants?

In Philadelphia, PA, two women who feed the homeless get a complete kitchen overhaul.

Their kitchen is straight out of the '50s. Can it be updated without breaking the bank?

A growing family's new house is perfect ' except for the outdated kitchen. Can it be saved?

An engaged couple wants to redo their outdated kitchen before the wedding. Can they do it in time?

Michelle Costello is a stay-at-home mom who works just as hard as her full-time working husband, Dennis. If there is one thing that could make Michelle's job easier, it's a brand new kitchen. The previous homeowner must have hit the jackpot at the laminate store, as loads and loads of the blue stuff overwhelm the small space.

Sparkle and Sean Morrissey aren't sure who designed the kitchen in their 1950s row home, but whoever did had eclectic taste, to say the least. From the laminate on three of the four walls and the shiny metallic wallpaper to poorly designed layout, this kitchen is in dire need of a complete overhaul.

New parents Jennifer and Kent Watson have tried to maximize their time and money in the updates they have made to their first home. They have tackled the bathroom, living room and dining room, and have sprinkled a lot of finishing touches throughout the rest of the place.

As an art teacher at a local middle school, Sally DeVinney has learned to keep an objective stance on each student's attempt at creating a personalized style of artistic identity. But when it comes to the amateur artwork scribbled across all of the cabinets and walls in her kitchen, she doesn't have as much patience.

Most families try to keep their kitchens as clean as possible, with countertops and floors so sparkling one could eat on them. But since Diana and Anthony Pingicer don't have countertops, they have no choice but to keep their floors clean enough to cook on and serve meals.

The Rockey family kitchen has been on rocky ground ever since they moved into their house. The large room is falling apart at the seams, and the abundance of space is plagued with problems, including worn-out blue cabinets, limited counter space and outdated appliances.

When Sara Goldstein and Paul Boxer first saw their house, they thought they had found their dream home. Nicely sized rooms, hardwood floors and a great color scheme were just some of the pluses. That was until they opened the door to the kitchen. What they saw there stopped them in their tracks: vegetable wallpaper, bright-green cabinets, no dishwasher and yellow and black bathroom tile that goes halfway up the wall!

If you're looking for a good home-cooked meal, don't stop by Clare and Steve Morrison's house. They are so fed up with their outdated kitchen, they just pick up the phone for takeout when hunger strikes.

When you walk into the Laurel and John Grossman's outdated kitchen, the first thing you notice are the dark, decrepit cabinets. Not only are they seriously outdated, but the layout is impractical, the floors are a painted disgrace, and let's not even get into the dilapidated appliances!