She says the lingering perception is a holdover from the days before modern kitchen appliances.

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There's also a den with a full wet bar and a large modern kitchen with two dishwashers and another fireplace.

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Smoke from cooking "may have been an occupational hazard before the modern kitchen, " he said, putting those women at risk.

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The modern Arne Jacobsen chairs around the kitchen table are pink, green, blue, orange, yellow and red.

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He installed glass doors, skylights and modern Bulthaup cabinets in the open kitchen.

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Students and travellers can stay at the onsite Kibbutz Ketura Country Lodging, comprising 45 modern apartments each with its own kitchen, balcony or lawn.

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The smallest are roughly 500 square feet, and their amenities are decidedly modern: gas fireplaces, stainless-steel kitchen appliances, and epically scaled bathrooms, most with Jacuzzi tubs and heated floors.

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The result is very modern, particularly toward the back of the home: The dining room opens to the midcentury-modern and Japanese-influenced wood-and-steel kitchen, where double-panel cabinet doors are made from laser-cut steel and feature an abstract design modeled after a historic map of the neighborhood.

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Cooking is therapy for Estrada and the kitchen - a spotlessly clean room with all the modern trimmings - is his inner sanctum.

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He created 3, 500 square feet of ultra modern, zen-inspired indoor living space that includes a glass-paneled kitchen, remote-controlled dining room table and master bed, and a living room atrium open to the sky.

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