Step inside some of the busiest rooms in Martha's current and former homes. See how she has decorated, organized, and reorganized her kitchens over the years.

Martha's kitchen at her farm in Bedford is a model of efficiency mixed with warmth and decorative details. Two islands offer seating and storage. An overhead steel rack keeps pots and pans reachable but out of the way.

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Martha did not want the cupboards to look like ordinary built-ins, so she designed a pair of long counters with marble tops; on one of them are glass-sided cabinets. They look so light and keep the area very airy in appearance.

Here is a view of two of the islands and the ovens behinds them, looking into the kitchen from the servery. It's where Martha sometimes has breakfast.

A very well-used part of the kitchen is the cappuccino counter; there's the grand machine and two grinders -- one for regular beans and the other for decaffeinated. On the machine, Italian cups stay warm, and everyday dishes and the like fill shelves.

Martha keeps a vintage juicer near the deep vegetable sink, where she rinses and preps produce. She has a few paper towel holders around the room, and old enamel brackets with milk-glass shelves hold kitchenware. The windows let in sunlight, which at times is tempered by translucent shades.

The small dining room can be accessed through the double doors in the servery. The space includes freezer drawers for storage, plus an ice maker and warming drawers for entertaining. Two dishwashers ease cleanup, and the marble floor can be vacuumed and washed with a damp mop. The wall color matches to the cupboards, and the gentle, cool tones make a cohesive whole of many diverse features.

Martha's rugged summer home on the coast of Maine boasts a less formal yet highly functional cooking space.

Here, Martha created her own Great Wall of China by taking every white dish she could find out of the cupboards and putting them on display. A porcelain fishmonger's table blends in perfectly to create an intriguing composition in an unexpected place.

Eighteen stools of various heights were gathered from the rest of the house and painted white. They now stand around the kitchen table, and guests, short or tall, can sit where they are most comfortable.

An assortment of big glass storage jars sits on a window ledge in the butler's pantry; their metal tops echo the galvanized metal of the sink.

A porcelain worktable and open shelves.

Martha's former Westport, Connecticut, home saw many renovations. Her kitchen underwent two major ones; Martha and her husband, Andy, took on the first one, and a more professional renovation took place in the late 1990s.

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Martha originally concentrated on creating a large kitchen with a dining area; the sycamore wood for the cupboards came from Massachusetts, and she found the pot rack at a tag sale -- a nearly identical picture served as the opening spread of Martha's 1982 book, "Entertaining."

In the late 1990s, Martha finally had the kitchen professionally renovated; the new color scheme of white and pale green was a welcome change. A 4-by-8-foot island served as a galley (rear) and dining area (foreground).

Drawers on the island's dining side organized silver.

Two floor-to-ceiling built-in storage cabinets with glass fronts enclosed the dining area like a pantry.

Martha displayed her turn-of-the-century American yellowware mixing bowls above the refrigerator and freezer; shelving for spices was created in the leftover spaces.

Cleaning supplies were stored on large trays that roll forward.

Martha Stewart proves the versatility and suitability of medical furniture in the home by constructing her New York apartment kitchen with Duralab components from top to bottom.

"It's basically a service kitchen," Martha says. "I wanted dishes, linen, and silver for entertaining -- 40 people for a stand-up buffet. But it had to fit in this long, peculiar space; I call it a 'galley alley.' " Space-conscious Duralab cabinets create maximum storage.

"I don't want anything sitting out -- this isn't a country kitchen," Martha says of her floor-to-ceiling cabinets. She chose sliding doors for below-counter, to avoid kitchen-traffic accidents from open-out doors.

Above-counter doors have glass fronts, "because I think it makes the room look bigger," says Martha, who replaced standard cabinet glass with restoration glass to give it an antique ripple effect.

A vintage dental-instrument case displays Martha's Venetian glass and Indian silver.

In 2003, Martha completed a "re-" project at her East Hampton, New York home: It involved repainting, reorganizing, removing, reacquainting, and resolving that everything that remained worked beautifully with everything else. 

She had new metal cabinetwork built to make the most of the available space in the kitchen. The soft brown of the walls and lighter, more golden color of the ceiling unified the whole room. New wall shelves hold Martha's teal McCoy pottery and brighten an expanse of wall. A 16-drawer metal buffet provides plenty of room for flatware, napkins, and serving pieces, which makes entertaining so much easier.

Because Martha's collections -- of dishware, cake plates, domes, pottery, and so on -- have grown over the years, she needed to create more room for them and utilized the vertical space in the pantry. The old shelves, which are now painted the same color as the kitchen ceiling, keep everything organized and accessible. The counter is covered in zinc-coated tin.

Now that Martha's dishes have a proper home, her countertops are clear and she has space she needs to work efficiently.