The renovation set of millions, reasonable to avoid the pit first.
The renovation of this life event is worth the excitement, because it means that you are about to enter a new life. But also worth worrying about, because once the lack of experience leads to stepping on potholes, will directly reduce the experience of moving in and happiness index.
Today we summarized 25 decoration avoidance guide, which includes pre-preparation and late closing process class notes, but also covers the living room, bedroom, kitchen, bathroom several important places, each dry goods.
Preparation
1, choose the right renovation program
The current design/construction methods on the market are divided into the following three types: the first, renovation company design + construction all-in-one (semi-/all-inclusive); the second, independent designers/design agencies + renovation companies/contractors; the third, their own design + renovation companies/contractors construction.
The second one is usually chosen by those who are interested in renovation, both to participate in the design and not to spend too much time and effort. The first one is to make a good mental expectation: the design cost is more. And design and construction disconnected, likely to cause design solutions can not be implemented, the problem of mutual rip-off.
2, do not trust the designer
The designer can be hired, but the effect can not be fully trusted. Do not hesitate to determine the other party’s design plan, to communicate more, talk more about his previous design cases, try to ask some detailed design questions, generally at least 5 10 cases to see his real style and level.
In addition, the remote designer’s understanding of the site is poor, do not choose. Once you choose, don’t expect the other party to design your home as if it were his own. For him it’s just one of the many jobs he does every day. The house is their own, not the designer.
3, detailed look at the construction program, beware of the settlement list “calculated wrong”
The general contract of the decoration company is dense dozens of pages of paper, look at the head of people are big. The company we are looking for is the same, plus each subdivision and notes are really dazzling. Although it is very troublesome, but I still recommend that you must carefully read the renovation contract, after all, the renovation process is long, involving more people and processes, there will inevitably be some small problems, this time the contract is your most important weight.
4, plumbing pre-planning is very important
Because the plumbing is a hidden project, so the layout will affect the future use of good or bad. If you don’t consider it well, it’s basically impossible to change it later, or it will cost you a lot. Wire line trenching and wiring is also these if you do not understand must find a responsible electrician master to get you, generally find a better reputation, that is not bad.
Living room chapter
5, don’t buy crystal lights! Don’t buy crystal lights! Don’t buy crystal lights!
This point is really worth saying three times.
Decoration novices are dazzled by the crystal lights confused, but look on the line, do not buy. There are many, many reasons, including the price is expensive, often tens of thousands of dollars; difficult to clean, the crystal lamp hanging position is relatively high, the design is complex, cleaning up to kill; show depressed, many small houses after the installation of crystal lights, are looking low floor height, living up to quite depressing.
6, buy a large TV, do not do the back wall
In the limited economic strength, the TV can buy how big buy how big, anyway, you buy home will be too small. Or simply omit the TV, made into a projection wall. In the past, the use of the TV backdrop is a decorative, modern people like new and old frequency accelerated, the background once outdated will be more and more annoying to see.
If you have to add something to the TV, the money used to make a luxury TV backdrop, to do practical large storage cabinets or bookcases, more simple and aesthetic, the number of times to organize the room after moving in has become less.
7, open storage actually does not look so practical
Now there are more and more families, in order to make their homes look sophisticated and rich style, will customize or choose some open cabinets in the living room. At first, they will display expensive items such as wine that emit a high-end atmosphere, but not for long, we will find that the top is full of dust, cleaning up extremely tedious. So, want to living room storage, please bring the door.
8, carpet? May be the cat hair bacteria concentration camp
The carpet is soft and comfortable to touch, and looks high-class and rich.
But after a few years you will find that this giant cloth has become a concentration camp for hair, cat hair, bacteria and dust at home.
Cleaning a carpet is more expensive than buying a carpet in some cities, and it is not clean. Why spend money to find a sin?
9, shoe cabinets are best customized
Shoe cabinets must be large and deep enough, partitions should be more and shorter, otherwise a few pairs of shoes will take up a whole row. Each family has different habits and preferences for shoes, different populations and different types of shoes, so you can tailor the shoe cabinet to suit your family’s needs and enhance the practicality.
Bedroom
10, closet a pass to the top, partition can be less than less
Closet must be done to the top, perfect articulation, strong integrity, increased storage space, and no hygiene dead ends.
Many people buy closet, like the design of multiple compartments, in fact, the closet will be found after use, too low compartments, storage is very little, later want to change also no way. IKEA and some Japanese home masters on the layout of the closet diagram, also do not recommend the cabinet’s multi-cell design.
11、Before going to bed with a hand can turn off the light
When you enter a key to turn on the lights, when you go to bed, directly at the head of the bed a press off, do not need to get up to turn off the lights, comfort is stronger. Bedroom remember to design the bedside socket, convenient for daily cell phone charging.
12、Fitted collapsed rice, expensive, heavy and hard
The price of a custom-made tatami is higher than the price of buying a bed plus a Simmons. Many people look at the storage function of tatami mats and think of storing unused items underneath them, but the reality is that tatami mats are very heavy and large, so it’s super inconvenient to get things every time!
The tatami mats are meant to be used for sleeping on, but they are really hard and uncomfortable for people who are used to spring mattresses.
Kitchen
13、Don’t choose an open kitchen just to be fashionable
Some young people feel that the open kitchen is very fashionable, there is a sense of casual and lazy. Imagine yourself watching TV, the wife is not far away while smiling at you, while making you a delicious evening meal. This idea, advised to give up early, because you are likely to end up facing a cooking house-wide smell of grease, living room grease is not easy to clean.
Whisper a word to you, very few large families will be home kitchen decoration for open. Open kitchen is only for single one-bedroom, cooking less people.
14, the cabinet can be to the top to the top, the cabinet door can be pulled out on the pull
And bedroom closet is a reason, hanging cabinets are best to the top, beautiful and will not be attached to the fumes, otherwise long-term down, the top of the cabinet stubborn fumes, so you want to demolish the cabinet.
Cabinet doors as far as possible to do drawer type, want to take the dishes when you can draw outward, without bowing and bending or even squatting.
15, rather a large sink, not two small sinks
Kitchen is best to install a large single sink, two small sink, even pots and pans can not be put, to it what use? It should also be noted that never install a shallow sink. Washing dishes is easy to splash a countertop are water, wash a pot height is not enough.
Faucet on the installation of adjustable water shower. Can reduce the occurrence of splashing, while the water is fine, more suitable for cleaning fruits and vegetables.
16, wash, cut, stir-fry a dragon
Many people will be relatively small because of the kitchen space, the stove installed and the wall is very close, the result of frying and cooking, a little larger people, elbows are easy to touch the wall, stretch not open. So in the kitchen decoration, let the stove best and the wall to maintain a proper distance between the operation to facilitate cooking.
There are also washing, cutting and frying vegetables to be designed reasonably, so that when cooking can be a one-stop. Will not panic, the oil is hot also have to run two steps to get vegetables.
17、Drink healthy water
Leave the installation of water purifiers and dishwashers space and design, it is very necessary. Poor water quality, not only drink into the dirt and grime, more likely to lose hair . There are conditions to install a dishwasher, because no one likes to wash dishes.
Bathroom
18, wet and dry separation of good cleaning
After a wet shower in the bathroom to go to the toilet, really uncomfortable. Water and hair mixed together, think about it is impossible to start. So wet and dry separation can improve bathing, toilet happiness. If there is no wet and dry bathroom can not be separated, pay attention to the safety of the use of electric water heater!
19, with niches instead of shelves
The storage space in the bathroom, it is recommended to build out the time of hard installation, such as opening up several niches in the wall, a countertop, convenient storage; relative to shelves, this “long in the bathroom storage space” more beautiful, integral, and good organization and cleaning.
20、Don’t be afraid to hang on the toilet
The ordinary toilet is also the main part of the bathroom caused by the dead space, if you just renovate the house, it is recommended to use the wall-mounted toilet, completely dead space, it is relatively small, hanging on the wall, but also make the bathroom looks very fresh and clean, wall-mounted toilet above the countertop can also be used up.
Don’t forget to reserve a socket next to the toilet, smart toilets, toilet lids have to be electrified (if you want to have them later).
21, bathtub water and occupy an area
There is really no need to install a bathtub at home, unless you are at home every day with nothing to do, lying down can make money, otherwise the bathtub at home will basically become an ornament, occupying an area, dust, sooner or later fall into the miscellaneous box, the practicality is very poor.
General normal shower only need about 50 liters of water, and to fill a bathtub but 200 to 300 liters of water, one person with 4-6 people bathing water, for you the water bill is not expensive, but to know how valuable water resources for water-scarce areas, they are even drinking water is a problem! Install less bathtubs and contribute to the children of Africa.
Other
22, water, circuit decoration acceptance
Electrical acceptance mainly includes several parts: electrical boxes, electrical appliances, switches and sockets inspection, acceptance includes the following aspects: electrical box inspection, electrical inspection, switch and socket inspection, etc..
The water line includes water supply engineering and drainage engineering, when checking the water supply engineering, we should pay attention to check its quality and water flow. Acceptance must pay attention to check the quality and installation position of faucets, valves, water meters, etc., and check whether the normal water flow.
After the bathroom waterproofing, be sure to do a 24-hour closed water test. Closed water test is also called water storage test, water storage depth should be not less than 20mm, water storage time of 24 hours, the water surface does not drop significantly for qualified.
23、Check the wall, ground verticality and flatness
Use vertical inspection tape to test the verticality and levelness of the wall. Plastered walls and tile surfaces are likely to have the phenomenon of bulging. Therefore, it is necessary to carefully observe and check the wall bulging phenomenon to avoid the occurrence of wall dropping and tile peeling in future life.
The acceptance of the floor and wall decoration is actually not very different, mainly to check the appearance and flatness and other aspects. The first thing you need to do is to check the appearance of the floor to see if there are color differences, cracks, gaps and other problems. The second is to check the flatness of the ground, generally through the vertical inspection tape to test. In addition, in the kitchen and bathroom balcony and other floor drainage parts of the ground, you also need to check the slope, to see if the water is smooth and no stagnation.
24、Door and window inspection
Doors and windows are the channels connecting the rooms and the outside world, so the installation quality of doors and windows is particularly important. Acceptance of windows and doors is mainly through the appearance check, frame check, window and door lock check and opening check. Focus on checking whether the doors and windows open and close smoothly and whether there is abnormal shaking after the doors and windows are locked. Close the doors and windows, check whether the door and window sashes are accurately embedded with the frame, and the gap between the general doors and windows and the frame should not exceed 2mm.
25, the most important point!
The house is your own, must have something to insist on, to have an opinion! Otherwise you will really regret!
When the foreman, decorator, seller, etc. want to reject your previous ideas and impose their own ideas to you, most of them are looking out for their own interests, do not listen blindly.
I hope that everyone can transform a world to their liking, and at the end of the night, they can return to the warmth of spring and really belong to their own harbor.
At that moment, the “house” also has another name: home.