As the host of DIY Network’s Kitchen Crashers, Alison Victoria has seen her share of horrendous cooking spaces. But nothing quite compared with the one she found in the Chicago, IL, home she bought two years ago with her husband, Luke Harding, who owns an insurance agency. “Picture a mishmash of melamine cabinets, dated tile, and scratched-up butcher block,” says Alison. “It had zero personality.”