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When it comes to efficient kitchen design, food magazines would have us believe that professional kitchens are the place to look for ideas. But the restaurant kitchen can be too antiseptic, too assembly-line for at-home cooks. Consider, instead, the chef’s home kitchen. Time and again we’ve seen that, at home, chefs have co-opted ideas from restaurant kitchens to suit their own lifestyle, with clever, at-a-glance ways of storing spices and two-are-better-than-one faucets. So has cookbook author, writer, and cooking show host Amy Thielen. Her kitchen—a newly built pine-paneled kitchen in Two Inlets, Minnesota—may seem rustic, just off of an original one-room cabin...

Of course we love a good tricked-out, state-of-the-art kitchen built from scratch, but there’s something about less-than-ideal older kitchens retrofitted with creative, budget-minded storage solutions that tickles us. Chef David Tanis’s kitchen in the East Village falls into this latter category—it has few built-in cabinets and practically no counter space—and it’s a perfect example of how simple ingenuity can transform a quirky configuration into a hardworking space. Here are seven storage takeaways from his kitchen. N.B.: To learn more about the author of David Tanis Market Cooking and his kitchen, see Chef David Tanis’s Low-Tech, Economical, and Beautifully Soulful Kitchen in...