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Kitchen Frosted doors

Chef and fitness expert Most of Robert’s
cabinets have solid
Robert Irvine shows us doors, but he installed a
his sleek Florida kitchen. few with textured glass
to lighten up the space
around the stove and
show off dishes and
glassware.

We might have guessed that
Robert Irvine likes everything in

his kitchen to be neat, organized

and efficient: The chef and
host of Restaurant: Impossible

spent 10 years in the British Stocked
Royal Navy, and he’s known for cabinets

restoring order to restaurants on To keep the counters
uncluttered, Robert
his show. Robert wasted no time
stores almost
overhauling this kitchen in the everything—including
Tampa home he shares with his cookware, dishes and
tabletop appliances—
wife, professional wrestler Gail in drawers and
Kim. When they first saw it, the cabinets.

space was carpeted and pretty

much everything was brown. The
renovation process took longer

than Robert and Gail expected—
“we had to eat out every night

for a year,” he says. But after the
dust cleared, they were left with

this: a modern space with tons

of cabinets, high-tech KitchenAid
appliances and plenty of room
Catch
for cooking. Robert is on the Robert on
road most of the year, and when Restaurant:
Impossible
he gets free time, he spends it Thursdays at
right here, cooking with Gail. “I 9 p.m. ET.

married up,” he says. “She loves
fitness—and she’s a great cook.”

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