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It is no exaggeration to call our decoration manager a war. We fought a war with the proprietress, the boss selling decoration materials, the installation masters of each family and the time. Now that the war is over, we have achieved initial victory, but there are also some losses to discuss. This is what I deserve to sum up.
First of all, I feel that I must have a look before the renovation. Although young people always have no idea about the first decoration, they don't know how to do it or understand anything. What happened? Everyone is the same. No one is born knowing everything. It is because I know nothing that I want to see it.
Listen, there are two parts. Part of it is going to the store, whether it is selling building materials, furniture, plaster line paint for suite doors, etc. If you see something pleasing to the eye, you must go and see it. You must tell your boss that you seem to be ordering something from this store soon and ask about the price and performance. Be sure to pretend to buy it right away ~ then they will try their best to tell you all the good things in their home and put the price at a lower level. But the same thing, such as cabinets, depends on several brands, so that after several rounds, which brand has any advantages and disadvantages, their competitive dealers will tell you all! This is much faster, more vivid and easier than searching online.
Another point is that before you go to see something, you also know something online, such as the brand of good hardware for cabinets, the pricing method is linear meters, and some terms such as embedded sinks. At that time, the clerk will think, oh, this person still knows something. If he can't fool him, I will introduce him to you honestly. If you talk about his shortcomings in front of them, they will be even more dizzy! Explain that the price will be lower. Of course, this trick is used when you decide to buy this product and finally bargain.
The other part is watching it online. In addition to the introduction of some things just mentioned, you can go to various decoration websites to see the decoration plan, or simply Baidu search pictures. If you see something you like, download it and have a look. Then combined with the structure of your home, the design scheme will come out slowly. This is much more affordable than looking for a decoration company. I also know that half-package and full-package are more expensive. Generally, the same house, if decorated with the same decoration materials, will be designed and decorated by workers. If you spend 50,000 yuan, the half package is generally 70,000 yuan, and the whole package is 6.5438+10,000 yuan. Regarding this ratio, it can't be said that the decoration company and the contractor are black-hearted, because they earned it. Please save your mind and look for them. It's true, don't think about buying this today, think about who to drag it tomorrow. But if you want to save money or install it yourself, design is really nothing. In addition to saving money, the home you built for yourself, although tired, enjoys the process. After the renovation, I looked at this place and thought about how my husband and I discussed what style, material and color this place used. This is sweet and fulfilling-I am the designer of my own life.
The first step of renovation is to change water and electricity, but there are still many preparations before changing water and electricity! Nothing can be less, or trouble will follow and it will be difficult to remedy. Preparations include ordering kitchen cabinets. General professional cabinet manufacturers will draw water, electricity and gas transformation plans according to the layout and size of their kitchens. There are also bathrooms and integrated ceilings. Toilets in many places are designed to provide water and electricity. There is no need to go into details about this, that is, the general toilets now use solid wood washing cabinets, and the wiring of mirror headlights needs attention; Integrated ceiling is very popular now, with good materials and many pattern choices, and it is the first choice for new home decoration. Not only that, manufacturers with generally good integrated ceilings will also make an effect diagram design in advance, and take the patterns, heaters and integrated lights into the effect diagram, so that they can see at a glance what their ceiling will look like in the future. What's more, the ceiling designer will ask the customer's opinion, and design two bathrooms according to the customer's requirements, whether there is only one bathroom with a yuba, one bathroom with a yuba, how big the yuba is, and so on. According to his fixed line, because it is different. There are also some small places, such as the location of washing machine, the location of washbasin and mop basin, the height of water pipe and so on. Think ahead, or change it later. This is the concept of wall planing.
Tiles have nothing to say. Good tiles are really expensive. Champion is said to be a brand between the first line and the second line, but we still think the price is a bit expensive. Unless you are lucky, you might as well buy all the special bricks. Most of the second-line brand tiles are from Foshan, Guangdong Province, but those from Shandong Province are not available. Guanzhu, Europe, America and Mei Tao are all good. Usually two tiles are picked up and put together to see if the edges can fit perfectly, and then try to suck a little water. However, there is a saying in the tile industry that tiles are divided into three points and seven points, which means that the effect of tile sticking depends on three points of tiles and seven points of bricklayer's technology. When bricklayers stick tiles, they must keep a good level and handle many small details. My family neglected one thing ―― switches and sockets should be installed in the bathroom and kitchen, and bricklayers should make holes in the wall tiles. If the bricklayer is not careful, it will bring trouble to install the switch socket in the future. Although it is a small matter, when we found this problem, the bathroom was also done. Basically, the family has reached the admission standard. Fortunately, we are paving the floor and grinding the tiles with the tools of the floormaster. Or we'll have the bricklayer do it again. It's okay to meet a responsible master, irresponsible and irresponsible. It's not a big deal, but it will definitely affect the mood.
When the carpenter came, he felt that he had spent a lot of money, but he could not see anything. All kinds of things are dazzling, even the boss himself sometimes doesn't know whether a piece of sandpaper is for sale 1.8 or 2 yuan money. Therefore, whether from the perspective of understanding the price or because there are too many things, even the handling methods will inevitably be lost. This is very useful.
Speaking of bedroom cabinets, we first went to see many brands of cabinets, some brands of furniture hanging wardrobes, and several brands of solid wood furniture. We also went to see the larger cabinets ordered in the market, and Europeans who ordered kitchen cabinets also had bedroom wardrobes, and compared them.
If the price is high, the custom wardrobe is more expensive. Many brands, whether it is the environmental protection of the plate or the quality of the large sliding door (because the sliding door will be easily deformed after enlargement), are very secure, such as jacking, but the wardrobe as big as my master bedroom is almost 10000 yuan, which is too high for us.
Relatively moderate prices are some finished furniture. The wardrobes in the brand of solid wood furniture look similar in style, very atmospheric, fine in workmanship and fashionable. But strangely, I saw several big brands in Red Star Macalline and Red Sun, and they all tasted great. Moreover, I feel that this kind of finished wardrobe has a characteristic, that is, the size may not be completely suitable for your home, because it is not customized, and the storage function will not be too good, because no wardrobe of finished furniture will go to the roof at once, and the space above is a waste. And the key is the taste, pungent taste. Today, when chatting with a net friend, I learned some inside information. It turns out that some brand furniture stores don't sell all the original products, and many of them may be OEM for small factories. In this way, they can earn higher profits. Generally, this kind of order cycle will be longer, such as one or two months. However, most of the samples in general specialty stores should be genuine. Now that I think about it, it's a good thing that I didn't covet big brands and bought brand-name furniture stupidly. Without knowing the inside story, it is very likely that I spent the money of famous brands to buy branded products. This is indeed a loss, but it is definitely not absolute. I think it should be a minority, but you must pay more attention to buying this brand of furniture.
Of course, the cheapest is our bedroom wardrobe now. We bought the plate ourselves and asked the carpenter to make it. Our wardrobe is made according to our own requirements, which can better meet our storage needs. But the carpenter's style is definitely not as good as that made by the furniture factory, so you should be mentally prepared. This kind of wardrobe can also use the sliding door and wooden door we use now, each with its own advantages and disadvantages, depending on your own preferences. Sliding doors are fashionable, but the big ones are easy to deform and the good ones are too expensive. Wooden doors are old-fashioned, not quite in line with the aesthetic concept of young people now, but more practical and durable. The two most important things to build this wardrobe are plates and paint. You can't be careless You would rather save money somewhere else, and this place can't be saved, because it is related to your health. We did some market research to choose the bunny board, but because the door in the cupboard is closed, we chose the "knotted" fir board, which can be cheaper than the "knotted" one. There are too many paint brands on the market, but Nippon and Dulux can easily buy fakes, so we can't tell the truth from the false, that is, we are a little afraid to buy them. We didn't trust this paint because I hadn't heard of it before, but the proprietress who sells materials strongly recommended it. I looked it up on the Internet and found nothing bad, so I used it, but after using it, I found it was ok. Wood lacquer lost its flavor the next day.
As for carpentry, I feel that carpenters nowadays are very powerful. What style of background wall and ceiling do you see on the Internet? As long as you show them the photos, they can do it for you. Don't worry at all. There is no way to implement the house scheme designed by yourself.
However, in the woodworking industry, I think my biggest regret is that I didn't buy a finished door. I bought a semi-finished door and painted it myself. Although the price is not high, almost more than 400 per door, the effect is really not as good as I expected. But it is really because of the limited economic conditions that the 10,000-yuan solid wooden door, together with the matching door cover line, door card line and window cover, is not worthy. If you buy all these matching solid wooden doors, it will not be as simple as more than 10 thousand.
Painters are the dirtiest, and there is a sandstorm every day. Painters are not careful, and our own family has to force them to be careful. Pay more attention to the corner, and let the painter take the 200W bulb on the wall and check it several times, so that the painted paint or sprayed wall paint will be smooth and flat. However, if the decoration is on a hot day or on a low floor, it is necessary to install the screen window when the painter scraped the putty for the last time and prepared for the final painting. Otherwise, before the paint is completely dried, the flies will come and lie on it, which will be miserable.
Speaking of it, it is actually easy to find workers, such as bricklayers, carpenters and painters, because you have to buy materials first. Please recommend bricklayers who sell tiles when buying tiles, and so on. They are also willing to introduce you, and there may be experts who cooperate better. Moreover, when they come out to work, they will also praise the good quality and beautiful workmanship of the things sold in their stores, which will also help them to pull business in their stores. It doesn't really matter. The key is that the workers introduced by their sellers will benefit us and dare not introduce bad workers to work for us. Maybe they smashed their own sign. For example, I bought thousands of colors of this paint and found another painter. When I bought it, my boss said his paint was good, so I bought it, but after I used it, the effect at home was not good, and my boss might say it was your worker's work. The painter may say that the paint is not good, which is probably what he means. Our ultimate goal is to do a good job at home, so even if someone tells you that the painter introduced by this boss wants a painter's kickback, it's nothing. What's the painter's salary? He does a good job. The deal between them has nothing to do with us Anyway, we have inquired about the regular market price and will not pay the painter more.
In addition, workers work, sometimes it's best for someone to be a good COP and a bad COP at home, and occasionally someone will send a watermelon in hot weather, but someone should keep a straight face and find fault or something. But it is very important that workers have worked hard and got hard money, and respect is the most important premise, so that people can feel that their work has not only been rewarded, but also respected. I will give my best skills to this owner and let him do the work well, which will have a multiplier effect. Because in many places, not only time and materials are wasted, but also energy is lost.
In fact, when the painter finishes painting, there will be no big projects. The kitchen cabinets were all completed in a day and a half, and the floor was paved in about half a day. Later, wallpaper, curtains and other things came into play one after another. But people are getting tired of it. I will be very tired from here until I move out. Because at this time, the painter returned the decoration key, and the rest were his. You need to open the door to let the workers go to work, and the situation will be over if people leave. Therefore, it is the most tiring thing to accompany the workers, clean up by themselves, and stare at what they are doing is inappropriate and not in place. But the sense of satisfaction and accomplishment has also increased a lot.
After the floor curtain came in, the hard decoration was basically over, and the rest was cleaning, soft decoration and moving. Soft clothes are endless. You can really move here from here, but cleaning and moving are really tiring. In order to save the cleaners four or five hundred dollars, we all clean ourselves and dare not even think about it. It is estimated that the next home will never have the courage and physical strength to clean it by itself. However, I also recommend a magic weapon, that is, old newspapers-the most effective tool for cleaning glass. Therefore, as we think, people who have the courage to lead an honest and clean life must have enough old newspapers. When I clean my new home, I feel that my strength is infinite. I am like an iron man. My husband and I will drive a Santana every morning to bring a car full of things, put them in a new house, and then clean them here for a day. Go back to the old house at night and clean up the things you want to move the next day. Repeatedly, the ants move. This state lasted for more than a week, and almost all the places that should be cleaned were cleaned. It's time to act. You will want to do more work in a limited time, so that the other party can do less and be less tired.
So after the renovation, we moved to a new home. Excluding the money for furniture and electrical appliances, it cost about 90,000 yuan, about 30,000 more than our budget. More than 90,000 people installed a set of three bedrooms, two halls and two bathrooms, with a building area of 135, designed by two novice designers and located on the second floor of a six-story multi-storey building. I dare not say how beautiful the decoration is, but we designed it ourselves and witnessed the birth of this new home. This warm feeling is beyond words. Therefore, our home feels very comfortable and warm.