Suzan Breedlove designed her kitchen on her own almost nine years ago, after she wasn't impressed by a kitchen designer.

"I put refrigerator drawers and snacks on one side so they (her two daughters) could come in and not be around where I was when I was doing the cooking," she said.

Breedlove's kitchen is one of five in a tour this Sunday for the annual Food for Thought event benefitting Teen Pregnancy Prevention. Features on display include sleek counter tops and Sub-Zero appliances, along with more subtle touches that homeowners added to make their kitchens unique.

Breedlove's kitchen, for example, features a stove with six burners and a griddle and an island with granite counter tops. Off the kitchen is an office and a laundry room.

"There's two warming drawers, an ice maker, a Sub-Zero (refrigerator), double ovens, there's granite counter tops and back splashes and the sink is in the center island with the dishwasher," she said.

The kitchen tour is a unique glimpse into the often most-used room in everyone's home. And local chefs from Skogies, 2 Dog Cafe, Chattahoochee Country Club, Truelove Celebrations, The Crimson Moon Cafe and Scott's on the Square will be on hand to prepare a treat from their restaurants for the guests. There also will be live music.

"The chefs really add a nice touch, and they bring something to sample," said Sherry Brock, a board member of Teen Pregnancy Prevention who helps choose the kitchens for each year's tour. "We usually have a couple hundred people (on the tour.) You can start anywhere and it is a four-hour time frame, and so some people will start closest to their home. At any given time we may have 10 or 15 people in a house at a time."

Custom home builder Richard Padgham built three of the homes on the tour, including his own spec design and the new homes of Pete and Cathy Miller and Holt and Jaimie Harrison.

The other two homes on the tour are owned by Benny and Deavie Sims and Keith and Suzan Breedlove.

"I try to look for new or unusual homes, recently updated homes," Brock said. "Try to find something that is out of the ordinary."

Padgham's spec home, built in 2008, will showcase furniture-quality cabinets, granite counter tops and stainless steel appliances.

"There is a microwave drawer, warming drawer, fireplace in the keeping room with realistic logs and a hidden pantry," said Julia Padgham, Richard's wife, adding that the entire home will be open. "We are not going to confine them to the main floor; they can wander around all they want, and there is a lot in the rest of the house."

At the Sims home, guests will have an opportunity to tour the main floor, which Brock said is one of the most spectacular homes on the tour.

"It reminds me of a small Biltmore House," Brock said. "It is very grand inside but yet it is very warm, very inviting, very rich colors. The pantry off the kitchen is just like every cook's dream pantry. There is a prep area in the pantry, the ceiling is tin - it is just a gorgeous pantry. And off the kitchen they have an outside grilling area, and she used ... antique iron gates on this area.

"It is just a well-thought-out kitchen."

The Sims' home was built in 2006 and features custom cabinets and an island with a wood counter top. There is reclaimed wood on the main floor.

"I think you get ideas for decorating," Brock said. "From flower arrangements to - in the Sims house she used commercial automatic window treatments with remote controls and then she put fringe on the bottom of them, they look dressy.

But Breedlove's favorite aspect of her custom kitchen is how it is open to the family room.

"When I'm in here cooking we are all still together and we can visit and watch TV, talk about our day," she said. "You are not secluded off in the kitchen by yourself."