# @dwellmagazine on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DMQCTy6RnNi
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/33973806-dwellmagazine-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-07-18T13:19:27.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Dwell (@dwellmagazine) — https://gondola.cc/dwellmagazine

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“The kitchen is all I care about in a house. It’s the heart of our home,” says haileecatalano, a professional chef-turned-food content creator, whose feed features delightful videos of her breaking down cozy, accessible home-cooked meals. So when she and her partner chuckcruz—also a trained chef with a social following—serendipitously stumbled on a 1954 ranch-style home in New Jersey with two functioning kitchens, one on the ground floor and one in the basement, they took it as a sign. “This house reminds me of my grandma’s house, who had a kitchen in her basement too. She’s Sicilian, this family [who lived here before us] was also Italian, and a lot of Italian homes had a second kitchen,” Hailee says. It just felt right. The couple’s ensuing renovation of the home turned out to be a full family affair: Chuck’s father was their contractor and his sister handled the interior design, while his brother-in-law helped with the build. In By Heart, Hailee’s debut cookbook, the chef writes that “[the] kitchen is where I have always found calm and serenity.” As first-time homeowners, the couple shares how they created not one, but two, sanctuaries where they spend most of their days cooking for their audience and also each other. Take the full tour at the link in our bio.
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Photos by louisececiliapalmberg
Story by jinniesunlee
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