3d home design software by Punch

Punch's Home Design Software Platinum Version 8 lets you design and view your home with incredible 3D home design realism.

How is this for home design software? Punch has developed PhotoView technology which lets you import your own real world photos into your home and landscape designs to create a stunning, truly realistic image of your home. All you have to do is import a photo of your own home, add your own landscaping design or deck design, and then view your newly created work from any angle with realistic, 3D perspective!

The home design software has a LiveView window which continually updates your home designs, in real-time 3D, as you draw it.

Interior and exterior 2D elevations are available with a single mouse click and the exclusive ClearView tool renders your design with transparent walls so you can actually see through the walls to maximize your design space.

It has a powerful 3D graphics engine that lets you create real-time walk throughs or fly throughs. Just like a Hollywood style movie voyage through your new design!

It also incorporates garden and landscape design software to allow you to create multi level or multi story decks with 3D photo-realistic textures, stairs, railings, object placement and colour capabilities.

The helpful deck design wizards walk you through railings, baluster options and more. You choose a basic shape or create one from scratch and watch the program draft a beautiful 3D rendering of your new deck design.

Your deck and landscaping designs will come to life in photo realistic 3D, (complete with shadows too), giving you a stunning, true-to-life representation of your home design.

Click here for more information about Punch's home design software.

Modern Kitchen Design Ideas

Good Kitchen Design

Ever thought about what is involved to achieve a good kitchen design? Is it all about the look or style of the kitchen? Is it related to functionality? Efficiency? There are a lot of factors that make up good kitchen design, so how would you design your dream kitchen?

The most fundamental aspects of good kitchen design would encompass the four following ideals;

1. The kitchen should be efficient
2. The kitchen should be functional
3. The kitchen should function safely
4. The kitchen should be aesthetically pleasing

The kitchen is the most widely used room in your home and is also the social hub of the household. It is also the most remodeled room in a home and usually the most expensive. It caters for the needs of the family and as such, good kitchen design should be of prime importance if you decide to remodel.

For the reasons just mentioned, it is very important that the design of the kitchen reflects your needs, tastes and imagination.

Good kitchen design is not just a rigid adherence to the four ideals that I have just described. Good kitchen design is the creation of the total look... where aesthetics and function are combined to create a certain feel or unity of effect. It is the glue that bonds all aspects of safety, functionality and style.

Modern Design Inspirations For Your Dream Kitchen

Good space planning will help you develop the best layout for your kitchen. When considering the layout of your new kitchen, most experts agree upon the triangle principle of design or the ‘golden triangle’ theory. Broken down, this basically involves grouping together the equipment and work areas that are most important to you, creating a friendly working environment.

The secret behind successful kitchen designs can be broken down into a series of simple steps, but kitchen design is by no means a straightforward process. There are many important decisions to make and kitchen design ideas aren’t always easy to come by.

If you’re trying to design a kitchen with sleek styling that doesn’t compromise on functionality and you still need to come up with some good kitchen designing ideas for your kitchen layout, kitchen furniture and kitchen appliances.

Here we have listed some of the modern kitchen designs for your inspiration.

Kitchen Decorating Ideas

A kitchen is one of the most frequently used rooms in your house and therefore calls in for unique kitchen decorating ideas. Naturally one expects it to be a bit beat than the other rooms. This was the case until recent past. But today, there a lot of decorating ideas for kitchens available, so that people can choose from any one of these ideas. People want to be different from the others and this concept goes for kitchen decorating as well.
One of the primary things one should consider when surfing interior decorating ideas for your kitchen is that it should be compatible with your kitchen. You will find a whole lot of kitchen decorating ideas but most of them might not suit your kitchen. It would definitely help to conduct a small research on the internet. One can find a large variety of interior decorating ideas that people have used to decorate their kitchen. This will definitely throw some light on the kitchen decorating that will be best for your kitchen. You will realize that selecting the best decorating idea can be a herculean task. Your kitchen decorating should reflect your taste and personality.

There are a large variety of decorating ideas available today. Since people have started considering designing their kitchen seriously nowadays, lots of professional designing agencies are offering their assistance in helping such people to find the design and theme of their choice.
Kitchen Decorating Ideas
Redecorating your kitchen gives a fresh look to it. You can rearrange your kitchen utensils and incorporate new devices. One can also consider painting kitchen devices such as your oven and refrigerator to give a refreshing new look to them. One should carefully plan the area allocation of the kitchen. There should be specific places assigned for cooking and storage. Cupboards, shelves and drawers should be installed.

It is you who best know what you want and therefore should spend some time deciding what exactly you need. You could ask for suggestions from your family members as well. People tend to use light colors for their kitchen. Moreover, using a light color makes the room appear more spacious and relaxing.

Nowadays, most kitchens are also used as diners, so one should take this into account when selecting kitchen decorating ideas. The type of furniture that you choose for such kitchen requires special attention. Big unwanted furniture can cause even a large kitchen to look cluttered. Basically, it is all about personalizing the kitchen to reflect your taste and personality.

Kitchen Decorating Ideas

Kitchen decorating ideas allow you to transform your room without spending a lot of money. You might want to give your space a fresh new look every few years. You use your kitchen every day in some aspect so you want to make sure that it’s a space that you truly enjoy. Here are a few tips for kitchen decorating ideas.

Start off with one item that you truly love and then work on from there. This could even be the jumping off point for the rest of your room. Mosaic glass tile comes in a variety of colors and finishes and it has a very contemporary or modern feel to it. You could add in a backsplash to give a little character and color to a room that is completely neutral. This allows you to put your personal stamp on the space without it being a complete remodel. The tile that you choose will completely affect the rest of your design style. For instance, you could choose a hand painted Spanish tile for more of a warm feeling by bringing in a lot of beautiful cobalt blues and terra-cotta colors.

Pattern is used in a lot of different design styles but for some reason it’s almost always left out of the kitchen. You can bring it in several different ways to really give a little bit of life to your room. For instance, you can try using a very subtle stencil on your cabinets. You could also go with a raised stencil that will really give you more of the look of an architectural element. These are often made from plaster. If you do go with something like a stencil you want to make sure that you change out the colors so you keep it sophisticated. Stencils aren’t just for the country design style; they add a very custom touch to your cabinets or walls.

Another popular theme for kitchens is just to go with a specific design style. This would be a lot more sophisticated than a basic theme room. It will also have a lot of versatility and a lot of different color palettes and styles that you can go with in each design style. Some basic design styles are shabby chic, country, French country, classic, Art Deco, modern, contemporary, and Tuscan. Any of these design styles will help you choose items in a specific color palette. It will also give you some direction to really create a cohesive space in your home that speaks to who you are.

Restaurant Kitchen Design

Pizza Station

If pizza plays a prominent role on your menu than a pizza station is a good idea. A combo reach-in cooler with prep area is a good choice for a pizza station. And of course you will need an oven for cooking. You can invest in a specialty pizza oven or use the ovens in your gas range. Again, if you plan on serving a lot of pizza having a large oven that can cook several pies at once is your best bet. Besides an oven, a well stocked pizza station should have pizza screens for cooking and serving, a pizza paddle, pizza cutter and sheets of wax paper.

Other Kitchen Stations

Restaurants with enough space may have a salad station and/ or a dessert station. Or these might be incorporated into the wait station. A well stocked salad station includes a cooler for lettuce, vegetables, salad dressing and plates. A dessert station needs to have cooler for deserts and space for plates, desert forks and an area to assemble desserts.

The Kitchen Line 

Last, buy certainly not lease is the kitchen line. The line is the area where the servers pick up their food. Sometimes “the line” refers to the line of stations in a kitchen. The line is often manned by the expeditor- the person who sends the dishes to the dining room looking great. The line should have garnish, plates, a spindle for order tickets and heating lamps, to keep waiting food hot.

Restaurant Kitchen Design

Our pedigree in restaurant kitchen equipment

We have developed an enviable reputation for quality and attention to detail in restaurant kitchen equipment and believe that customer service is paramount in running a successful business. We set ourselves exacting standards and aim to get every job right first time, every time. 

All of our restaurant kitchen equipment products are manufactured with quality AISI 340/430 stainless steel and are quality inspected throughout every aspect of the the manufacturing process. We produce everything using preformed edges for higher levels of hygiene and finish.

We offer a 12 month, no quibble guarantee on all our restaurant kitchen equipment and abide by the standards set by our CEDA, the Catering Equipment Distributors Association, of which we are proud members.

We have developed strong links with distributors and have enjoyed many years of repeat business from them, proof positive that we continue to provide high levles of quality and service.

 

Luxury Kitchens

Improve Your Kitchen Looks with Different Countertop Options

Making the right choice amongst the various countertop options goes a long way in deciding the looks and functionality of your kitchen. A perfect countertop is essential for a good looking and properly functional kitchen.

There are numerous options available for your kitchen countertop. While making the selection for your countertop you should keep in mind that it must complement with the kitchen cabinets and floor and should be able to withstand the daily rough use of the kitchen and spills.

Amongst the various kitchen countertop options available, the widely acknowledged materials for your kitchen countertop are granite, marble, ceramic tiles, laminate, stainless steel, concrete and solid surfaces like Earthstone, Corian, Avonite etc. It is important to note that the kitchen countertop should have heat resistant surfaces as there will be lot of hot utensils and other items that will be placed on the counter regularly and the counter is also prone to receiving heat from the cooking range. So, for this reason the laminate countertop is no more preferred as a kitchen countertop as it is easily prone to be damaged and is not totally resistant from heat.

The natural stone countertops such as those made from marble and granite not only give an excellent look to your kitchen but when the countertop durability is considered they tend to remain on the top of the list. The manufactured stone countertop is also preferred for its beautiful looks that can complement most easily with the floor and other kitchen accessories. These are also available in different colors so that you can choose it according to the accent of your other kitchen furniture and the color of the walls.

The selection of countertop will also depend a lot upon your budget and the countertops pricing. If we consider the countertops price per square foot, we will find that the ceramic tiles option is by far the cheapest option available. Another advantage is that you can yourself fix your own ceramic tiles countertop. Solid surface countertops are although not very low priced but they have a great advantage in the fact that they can be easily cleaned and made smooth with the help of a sand paper.

Apart from the various factors which are important for consideration of a countertop the other factor which can impact your decision is the ownership of your house. If it is a tenanted house, you may not want to spend much on it and if the house is owned by you than probably you will not hesitate to select amongst the most expensive countertop options available in the market.

Luxury Kitchens Design

HGTV’s Top Ten Amazing Kitchens

This magnificent Clive Christian kitchen was featured on Home and Garden Television’s “Top 10 Amazing Kitchens” as the #2 winner.

New Interior Design Classic

Interior Design Classic

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2010 Luxury Classic Furniture Henley by Neptune

2010 luxury classic furniture Henley collection offer you a sophisticated natural timber look – something that stands apart from the modern classic furniture mainstream of your interior design ideas. The first consideration was which timber to use.
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Country Style Luxury Home Interior Design Ideas by Linda Crammond

Linda Crammond, award winner for Canadian Decorator’s Award for Best Overall Industry Design, has been providing contemporary and classic interior design for 20 years, designing homes and corporate facilities in Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom.
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Italian Top Restaurant Design

IL FORNELLO Head Office
112 Isabella St.
Toronto, ON, M4Y 1P1
Canada
Tel: (416) 920-9410
Fax: (416) 920-0474
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Group Catering

For information on group catering, please contact our Head Office at

416-920-9410

or cater@ilfornello.com
For group dining information, including menus and date availability, please contact your preferred IL FORNELLO location directly (see Locations for restaurant contact information in Il Fornello's website).

 

For over twenty years, IL FORNELLO has been serving up its brand of innovative Italian classics to Toronto diners.

A perennial fixture on Toronto's 'Best of' lists, IL FORNELLO was named one of the 'Top Ten Toronto Restaurants' in the 2006 Zagat Guide and IL FORNELLO on Church Street was nominated for the prestigious James Beard Award for Best Restaurant Design (North America).

With nine locations in the Greater Toronto Area, Richmond Hill and Oakville,  IL FORNELLO is definitely a 'must do' dining destination.

The IL FORNELLO story began in 1985 when, while visiting New York City, IL FORNELLO President Ian Sorbie and Vice President Tony Rago were inspired when they tasted the thin crust 'gourmet' pizza that was causing a sensation in the Big Apple.
Upon their return, they made plans to open a restaurant in Toronto’s Annex neighbourhood with partners Stacey Patterson and Sean Fleming, and named it IL FORNELLO, Italian for "the little oven."

IL FORNELLO has been an industry leader in offering an Alternative Menu to customers with special dietary needs. Featuring wheat-free, yeast-free, dairy-free, and gluten-free menu options, the Alternative Menu offers dishes suitable for those with dietary sensitivities. Most recently, IL FORNELLO was the first restaurant group in Ontario to offer a wide array of menu items created specifically from local, Ontario ingredients, catering to those customers who wish to follow the popular 100 Mile Diet.

Italian Restaurant Design

Fabbrica restaurant by Tjep, Rotterdam, Netherland

Fabbrica, is a Italian restaurant designed by Tjep, located in Rotterdam, Netherland. After the success of restaurant Praq, one of our favorite clients commissioned a new restaurant to be located in the Rotterdam harbor, right between the boats and the cranes. Fabbrica struck us as the most convenient name for this new Italian restaurant.

Fabbrica meaning factory in Italian, we envisioned the canteen of a very special factory: a very romantic factory where pleasure is produced for guests.

Like in the canteen of a factory you will find long tables and benches at Fabbrica, but than colored in Italian ice-cream shop style colors: pink and pistachio green. The oven is placed in a huge tank, covered with italian mosaic. A large wall composed of crane elements is used to store wood to fire the oven.

Every detail combines industrial sturdiness with soft colors or decorative elements. We chose not to intervene with the authentic industrial character of this nineteenth century warehouse so we left all the structures in original state. The walls for example are left intact, in several places large glass panels were placed in front of them covered with Italian wallpaper patterns.

The result is that the patterns seem to float in front of the wall in a complex game of reflections. Lovers get to sit in a train structure that floats in the center of the space. The logo of Fabbrica is based on a font in which the point on the i resembles the beautiful shape of a hand made pizza, but one can also see a full moon, as it enlightens Fabbrica at night.

1963 Geneva steel kitchen

I rescued this kitchen from a cooking school run by nun's and retro renovated it into my Massachusetts.

Modern Kitchen Colors

modern kitchen home interior design

Contemporary kitchen designs often emphasize universal design principles and eco-friendly materials. Choose a major subdued color accent like white, brown, black or metallic and pair it with one or two bright colors like red and electric blue. You should always remember though that size should be considered when finalizing kitchen colors. Smaller kitchens should always have light colors. Pastel colors will make your kitchen look bigger than it really is. modern designs often make use of manufactured materials and finishes such as steel, plastic, linoleum, chrome, molded plywood, laminate, acrylic, concrete, and glass, you can also soften and warm the modern kitchen design aesthetic with natural materials such as granite, slate, stone, and wood.

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Think that salmon fillet you ordered for dinner is good for you? Think again. Restaurants load even their healthiest fare with butter and other calorie-heavy add-ons. Restaurant meals average 1,000 to 1,500 calories, says Milton Stokes, a registered dietitian and spokesperson for the American Dietetic Association. That’s roughly two-thirds of the daily average calories recommended by the USDA. And according to a recent study, women who eat out five times a week consume an average of 290 additional calories per day.

While most Americans assume that fast food is the worst offender, similar fare at casual sit-down restaurants can be even more caloric. The classic burger at Ruby Tuesday, for example, has a whopping 1,013 calories and 71 grams of fat. The McDonald’s Big Mac, with its 540 calories and 29 grams of fat, seems downright diet-worthy by comparison. “We butter our hamburger buns,” says Julie Reid, vice president of culinary for Ruby Tuesday, “so we tell people if they’re looking to cut calories, they shouldn’t eat the bun.” If that sounds less than appetizing, try splitting an entrée with someone, or order an appetizer instead of a main dish.

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Interior Rendering

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House Design

As a sole practitioner, Dean is intimately involved in all aspects of a new house or addition project. He completes the programming, performs all design work, drafts the documents used for construction, handles the bidding process and physically inspects the construction site to check progress.Inovation is the key to good design. On countless occasions Dean has excelled in using innovative design approaches to meet client's requirements. A few include:

• Concealed natural light sources 
• Children's rooms with secret spaces & passages 
• Tower and sunken shower configurations 
• Unique stairwell shapes 
• Built-in work and storage spaces 
• Wheelchair accessible environments 
• Functional kitchens without wall cabinets 
• Dramatic lighting layouts 
• Geometric shaped decks and outdoor spaces

Construction observation is also a very important piece of a successful project. Dean explains... "building is a very complex endeavor. It requires excellent coordination between the trades and installation of a myriad number of elements and materials. As an observer, I'm able to ascertain if the contractor is following the plans and building in a quality, productive manner. I also assist the contractor in answering questions and addressing upcoming work issues."

Dean also adds... "construction site visits sometimes yield surprise problems and as a result you can take remedial action before the work proceeds any further." To site a few examples: 

• Insulation installed backwards (will lead to mold growth) 
• Plumbing drain lines running up hill (pipes will constantly clog) 
• Floor joists badly cut to accommodate duct work (will lead to structural problems)