1. design: when decorating, you must first determine a project, customize one or several suitable schemes, and choose the grade you can bear, high-grade, middle-grade or low-grade. Design fees, including planning, generally account for 5%-20% of the whole decoration cost. The planning and design process needs reasonable layout, appropriate allocation of funds, and don't let the later construction reuse labor and materials.
2. Materials: After the decoration scheme is completed, materials will be selected according to the design. Decoration materials are already a product assembly line, and decoration has become a model. It's actually a combination. In order to find the right price, we need to visit several building materials markets to find the best combination of materials and prices. Materials are the biggest expenditure in home improvement expenses, and material adulteration also occurs from time to time. Therefore, we should be as careful as possible in the selection process, and don't buy some products without brands, so as not to encounter fakes.
3. Bargaining: After finding the right and favorite materials, you need to explore the price. Merchants often offer quite high prices and claim to be cheap. At this time, you can take out the approximate market price and its bargaining price that you have proved in the previous step and explore its reserve price.
4. Determine the price and sign the contract: After determining the approximate cost of design planning and materials, you can contact some decorators. It is best to consult some professionals first, introduce more reliable decorators and sign contracts with them. The contents of the contract shall include the materials used, the designated brand and the price agreed by both parties. The more specific, the better, to avoid future disputes.
5. Total budget: On the basis of design and asking price, budget the expenses of the whole decoration process together with the decorator, including design expenses, material expenses and construction expenses.
6. Time preparation: After all, decoration is a big expense. It is necessary to leave enough time in advance to put the design, materials, asking price and budget in place. The more fully prepared in the early stage, the faster the decoration can be.
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Matters needing attention in house decoration:
First, the comprehensive budget should be considered comprehensively.
1, determine the decoration material budget. First of all, family members should agree on the basic contents of decoration, such as whether to make furniture, what materials to lay on the ground and what the function of each room is. Then go to the major decoration markets to do a thorough investigation, including decorative wall coatings, floors (composite and solid wood), wall tiles, various decorative boards, sanitary ware, kitchen utensils and so on. After mastering the approximate market prices of various materials, it is suggested that the whole family might as well sit down and discuss, and learn about the brand, material, origin, performance and price of the above materials, which is beneficial to know fairly well when negotiating with professional decoration companies, and make a preliminary budget according to the first-hand situation, so as to arrange the decoration projects reasonably and prepare the corresponding funds.
2. Make a budget for the renovation project. Consumers should have the floor plan of the new house, fix the living requirements and facilities requirements of the living room, bedroom, study, dining room, kitchen and bathroom on the drawings, list the projects to be done, and then estimate according to the price parameters provided by the decoration market to get a preliminary budget.
3. Different decoration grades and different budgets. Family decoration is a comprehensive project. There are many unknown factors, and there are different grades, so we should give the decoration company a layout and planning time (about a week), so as to determine a suitable plan and budget according to different decoration grades. If it is a simple decoration, the basic materials such as wood floor, latex paint, wall and floor tiles, plywood, etc. are specially understood, and the calculated price is basically the main body of the total cost; If it is a high-grade decoration, in addition to the basic projects, but also set aside a certain space for designers to embellish from an aesthetic point of view.
Second, allocate and use budget funds reasonably.
1, decoration, decoration-which is more important? "Paying more attention to decoration than decoration" will gradually form a trend, because the means of decoration are limited after all, which can not meet the design requirements of personalized home, while furniture and home decorations with different styles can evolve into countless home styles. Therefore, many people only require high-quality "four white floors" when decorating, and at the same time use decorative means to shape the character of the home. Therefore, most of the budget funds should be invested in renovation.
2, living room, bedroom-which is important. There are more and more forms of "small bedroom in the hall". Might as well invest more in the living room and spend less time decorating the bedroom. The most important thing in the decoration of the living room is to reflect the characteristics of this family. The treatment of roof, wall and floor is not only of high quality and good materials, but also of novel decoration technology. In the configuration of furniture and the choice of decorations, the share of the living room should be the largest in the overall budget. On the contrary, the decoration of the bedroom is mainly simple and warm, without too much carving.
3. Roof, wall and floor are treated differently. The clear height of home rooms is generally low, about 2.5-2.8 meters. In order not to feel depressed, it is appropriate to simply treat the top of the room. The decoration of the wall is also very simple. This not only saves money, but also works wonders. For the decoration of the ground, we need to work hard, so the texture and color of the ground decoration materials determine the decoration style of the room, and the frequency of use of the ground is obviously higher than that of the wall and ceiling. As far as floor materials are concerned, the composite wood floor with good texture and decorative effect is more suitable for home use.
4, kitchen, bathroom-efforts. The kitchen is the place with the most pipes in the home, and it is also the most troublesome place when decorating. It is worthwhile to invest more money to make the kitchen beautiful. The whole kitchen furniture market is gradually optimistic, which is the new trend of "kitchen revolution". The same problem exists in the decoration of the bathroom. Because the ventilation and lighting conditions of most bathrooms are not very good, we should work hard on the decoration. From the layout of design, the collocation of sanitary ware to the division of functional areas, the choice of wall and floor tiles and so on. Every link can't be ignored.
Third, the budget audit can not be ignored
1, check that the drawings are accurate. When reviewing the budget, the drawings should be reviewed first. A set of complete, detailed and accurate drawings is the basis of budget quotation, because the quotation is based on the specific dimensions, materials and process conditions in the drawings. If the drawings are inaccurate, the budget is of course inaccurate.
2. The project should be complete. Check whether all the engineering projects in the approved budget are complete, see if all the things you want to do are listed in the budget list, and whether there is a lack of doors or bricks on the kitchen wall or kicking the line in the bedroom. These missed projects must be done when they arrive at the site, but it is inevitable to go through the formalities of adding projects and increase another unexpected cost.
3. The unit of measurement is true. In furniture production, there are great differences between decoration companies. For example, some companies use "extended meters", and some use "square meters" to make big wardrobes or bookcases. At this time, we should pay special attention, because the furniture calculated by "square meters" is always calculated by multiplying the actual square meters by the unit price, while the furniture calculated by "linear meters" has a high upper limit.
4, material technology to write clearly. Decoration companies should tell customers exactly what materials and technologies are used to construct the quotation. For example, seeing such a quotation, it is obviously not specific enough that the wall paint is 30 yuan/square meter, because "Nippon paint" is only a brand of paint, and its products are many, including interior wall paint, exterior wall paint and wood paint; There are several types of interior walls, and each paint has many colors; The specific process should also be clearly written, because different operation methods will directly affect the future service life.
References:
Baidu encyclopedia-house decoration