The husband's house in a two-bedroom house has a gorgeous turnaround and the selection of decoration companies

Introduction

At the beginning of the year, I looked at the slightly sluggish property market and was very excited. However, I had always been indecisive. By the time I made up my mind to buy a house, house prices had already risen. In mid-May, After going through 1 house inspections and negotiating prices, I finally signed for my husband's 2 year old house in the inner ring. I applied for a loan and paid the down payment to transfer the property. It took more than 4 months. At the end of September, I finally got the key successfully.

To make a long story short, I started to fall in love with the Mediterranean style after looking at the house. For a while, I was particularly obsessed with Feikong’s works, so I firmly believed that I wanted to make this small house into a Mediterranean style.

Preliminary introduction

Room type: two bedrooms, one kitchen and one bathroom

Building area: 48 square meters

Floor: 6th floor

Difficulties:

1. The structure of the husband’s room is made of prefabricated panels, so I dare not knock on the wall

2. How can I get inside the long and narrow corridor in the hallway kitchen? Doing a dojo

3. The small room facing north is also super long and narrow, which is a headache

4. The bathroom is very small, and it is difficult to fit a washing machine

Budget: Hard decoration (half package from the decoration company + self-purchased materials) 49,000

Soft decoration (furniture and home appliances + curtains, fabrics, etc.) 18,000

Selection of decoration companies

1. Make an appointment to measure the room

On October 9th, I made an appointment with 4 companies to measure the room. At around 5 pm, they all responded to me and they all made appointments for home measurement on October 11th. room (I was very worried that it would be embarrassing if I bumped into it, but luckily it didn’t happen~)

On October 11, three companies arrived on time in the morning, and one company was more than 40 minutes late.

Company A arrived before 9 o'clock in the morning. It was a young designer called Xiao T. He measured the room very quickly, but did not communicate much. After asking a few simple questions, he promised to come up with a plan as soon as possible. The budget was not given to me, and then I seemed to be rushing to the next one.

Company B arrived at 9:30, half an hour early. It is said that because the company is not far away, it is a MM designer Xiao Z. He is very attentive and read all the requirements I wrote during the appointment. We talked about it for a while, and then started measuring the room. It was not very fast, but I felt very patient. Before I left, I promised to come up with a plan and budget as soon as possible and would contact me in advance.

Company C arrived at 10:30, with two girls. Among them, Xiao Y put forward many ideas for the house. Although it was quite different from my own idea, I still hoped that it would be outstanding. (She was the first to propose changing the location of the sub-division door, and she also said that thin walls should not be knocked down.) The measurement of the room was completed by the collaboration of two girls. I also recorded the dimensions. The impression at the time was average, but later it turned out that it was still very good. Professional, the two girls also promised me to provide pictures and budget as soon as possible.

Little H, the designer of Company D, contacted me at noon and told me to leave immediately. The journey was expected to take an hour, but he ended up being more than 40 minutes late (waiting is very annoying, especially when I get the goods one after another) (news that will be delayed), but after coming here, the attitude is still good, the house measurement speed is very fast, and the communication is also very hard. On the issue of whether to knock on the red brick, he thinks that if you have lived there for 5 years, even if it is a little empty, It's not very important, and I also demolished a small section of the wall where the electric wires were located, peeled off some of the wall covering, and finally came to the conclusion that the red bricks don't need to be shoveled into the walls of my house ~ Xiao H promised to give me a design plan before Wednesday, and A budget was given on the spot: 40,000 for hard installation, which seemed to be half the price.

PK results: Company B - Company A - Company C - Company D (the first in ranking wins)

Finally, it was decided that the first place in Zhichun will be on October 20th During the first meeting for negotiation, I put forward all the ideas with Xiao Zhou. Some of them were approved and the drawings were modified, while some were eliminated because they were impractical or unaffordable

Before noon the next day, we closed the deal. When it comes to the final design plan, although it is not that brilliant, practicality is also important after all. I hope that the workmanship and later soft decoration can embellish it to achieve the effect I want.

The groundbreaking ceremony

At 7:20 in the morning on October 28, I went to the small shabby room to put down firecrackers. Since I rarely go there, there was an unpleasant smell as soon as I entered the door. I was afraid of being smoked. When the masters arrived, they quickly opened the windows for ventilation, went around for a while, and hurriedly went to the company to report (what can I do, the company has a lot of things going on these days, and I have to deal with it before I can go away and do my own things after saying hello).

At 10:10, I took leave from the company and went to the bank to withdraw money - the down payment for the project, 1W!

At 10:25, we arrived at the new house early. The window was opened early in the morning, so the smell dissipated a lot. I was relieved. I was just about to take photos, but even the iron door was closed tightly, and I saw the sun. Yang is so diligent when he goes up the stairs. Thumbs up!

After chatting for a while, we got down to business. Yangyang took out the revised drawings and said that since I requested the socket switch drawings relatively late, I didn’t have time to change the drawings. The drawings left to the construction team were manually modified, so they racked their brains to modify the number and location of the sockets. As they were making changes, Captain Cai arrived. I still forgot to close the iron gate, so I said hello and continued to change the drawings, and turned on the lights. The number of items has also been reduced. The wall lamps in the dining room have been moved to the side with the tatami, and the wall lamps on the desk have also been moved. I have so many requests~

After dawdling like this for a while, Yangyang began to follow Captain Cai confessed, and we started taking photos.

A lot of issues were raised during the clarification. I will record them here. When the lamp is dismantled, we will have to go back to the construction site for further discussion:

1. The sideboard at the entrance. and shoe bench need to modify the plan, because this is the partition wall with the next door neighbor. If it is thinned without permission, it may affect the next door neighbor

2. The original kitchen has a circle of wall cabinets and a thin plastic board I don’t want a suspended ceiling. Captain Cai means that it will become greasy over time, and later I discovered that the gas meter pipe comes in from the outside. It cannot be hidden without a suspended ceiling. Now it depends on how the pipes are arranged.

3. The kitchen window should be made larger. The current one is too small and the light is not good.

4. For the round arch shape between the dining room and the kitchen, it is estimated that the wall in the kitchen must be leveled with the wall made of sealed pipes. Otherwise, the complete round arch will not be seen and it will be meaningless. After this, I After thinking about it, there is basically no chance to stand to the side and look at the round arch. If you look at it from the side, it should not be able to block the beautiful round arch, so instead of straightening it, the door can be bigger.

5. We looked carefully at the size of the bathroom plan. As a result, Yangyang said today that he wanted to knock off the thin wall and build it closer to the bedroom, but I rejected it, so the shower room was designed to retain water. It’s time to change the height. The high part is around 750 and the low part is around 550. The next step is to straighten the water retaining.

6. The length of the basin cabinet is 600, and I forgot to ask the boss about the width. Although the wall can be borrowed for 100, the washing machine opposite is interested in the pulsator, and the size is 500×500×515. , the total bathroom size is 1450 + 100 = 1550, and then subtract 500 and the 100 left for the washing machine drain pipe, there are only 950. If the basin cabinet is 400, then there is still 550 that can be walked. Is it too small? Besides, the sliding door in the bathroom is 700, so the wall next to the washing machine is also 700. Minus the position of the basin and the washing machine, the walkable passage is only 350. To enter the bathroom, you have to walk sideways like a hairy crab, which is uncomfortable. --Either the door should be changed to 650? It would be nice to have 100 more.

7. The balcony was originally not supposed to have a marble window sill, but it turned out that after the cabinets were demolished, there was still a cement edge. If this was the case, they would be covered with mosaics - I suddenly discovered the amount of mosaics in my house. It would have increased significantly. Fortunately, I picked the cheap one at that time, otherwise. . Overspending is not negotiable.

8. A partition is added next to the cabinet on the TV wall in the bedroom. Originally, Yangyang said it was triangular. Now considering polygon, it can increase the place for putting things - specifically, add a etc. outside the original triangle. The sides are trapezoidal. I wonder if Yangyang can understand this explanation.

The next step is to set off firecrackers - I would like to thank my good friend for giving me a string of 1,000 extra firecrackers from her wedding

Considering that the next door neighbor is an elderly couple, I am afraid that The sudden setting off of firecrackers scared them, and I also wanted to go next door to see if the shoe stool could be knocked into the wall and see if there was a cupboard in this location, so I went next door to say hello. The old gentleman was very polite and even said to let it go. Firecrackers or something, at this time Yangyang saw the cabinet through the crack in the door, killing two birds with one stone. Unfortunately, the cabinet he saw happened to be on top of my existing shoe cabinet, so the plan to knock on the wall to make a shoe stool was aborted. , the design drawing needs to be modified.

At 11:22, Captain Cai personally lit the "6"-shaped firecrackers that I placed. Not going out, I was stuck in the house. I covered my mouth and rushed to the bedroom to open the window fully. Then I followed the large troops and fled to the 6th and a half floors, gasping for air. . .

After waiting for a long time, the smoke gradually dissipated. I went in to sort out the drawings and prepare to retreat. Captain Cai said that the work had started today, so he stayed to dismantle some easy-to-dismantle things - I kept 2 units. For the air conditioner and curtain rods in the small room, we first went to the property management to go through the check-in procedures and pay the garbage removal fee. Only then did we realize that the heroic figure of me smashing the first hammer was missing, so Captain Cai took out the Hammer, I smashed, I smashed, I smashed, I hit the tiles several times, making small holes. Captain Cai said to hit the corners, okay, this hit, I sacrificed my blood, small fragments of the tiles flew. I inserted it directly into the back of my hand, and it started to bleed. I hope my blood sacrifice can bring good luck to the project. I pray~

Just a few hammers attracted the old couple next door. They thought we were going to do it again. The wall was smashed, and they said that half of it had been smashed before, and if they smashed it again, it would lead directly to their house. We quickly explained that we were not smashing it, we were just knocking out the tiles and reinstalling them. The grandmother next door said that the decoration was perfect and the tiles were well preserved. Come or something. . . I had to explain that because the electrical wiring and water pipes were aging, they needed to be replaced and rewired, so I had to knock them out and start over. . . After explaining for a long time, the old couple even visited the bedroom before reluctantly leaving. I repeatedly promised to keep the noise as low as possible so as not to affect them. Oh, please, Captain Cai~~

Before leaving There was an oolong joke before. We were all about to go downstairs. Captain Cai stopped me and asked me if I still wanted to go upstairs. I couldn’t tell. Captain Cai said, then you have to give me the key. It turned out that I took it out before. I was going to give him the key, but then I didn't know what they were discussing, so I put the key back. I'm so clueless! I hope Captain Cai will be considerate. If you need anything during the project, please notify me in advance and remember to remind me.

The property manager didn’t go there because it was far away from the community. Yangyang suggested that the property manager could wait for him. Come to the door, okay, I'll just wait and see. No one asked me for rice, so why should I show off and deliver it myself?