Snag a barstool and keep the chef company in this kitchen that's as comfortable as it is fun to cook in. Details are grandly Mediterranean: terra cotta tile floors, leather barstools, handsome wood beams.

The Mediterranean style of this gourmet kitchen is grandly elegant with countertops of distressed teak and Spanish leathered stone. The ceilings are cedar.

Here's a kitchen you're in no hurry to leave: stately chandeliers (from Handelman Studio), distressed teak countertops, views from so many windows. And that range is La Cornue.