Is it really difficult to decorate? 10 steps to get you started.

When I first started decorating, I was at a loss as to what to do in the first step. ?

I didn't feel it until I tripped. Actually, it's not that hard. Decoration is like a spring, if you are weak, it will be strong! As long as the thinking is clear, bold and careful, you will not be blind at all!

Come on, everybody. Come with me once. ?

1, wake up from a big dream?

Speaking of the decoration process, the first step is to love the popular science "water, electricity, shingle oil". Please, when I first started using this word, my head was big. These can be regarded as medium-term construction links, so don't be afraid at first.

After all, the first step is even more terrible: money. ?

Everyone is full of unrealistic fantasies about their new home. But as soon as you check the bank deposit, you will wake up immediately. If you are as tight on budget as we are, you'd better make it clear from the beginning: don't start with "how do I want to decorate", but start with "how much budget do I have" ?

First estimate how much it will cost to pack hard clothes.

Find some friends who have been decorated in the same city for half a year and ask about the cost of hard clothes. According to the area ratio of your two houses, your hard-fitting budget will be clear after conversion.

Then the furniture.

Take a weekend, go to the nearest IKEA or building materials city, ask how much the sofa and wardrobe cost and write it down. ?

Then there are home appliances.

Open Taobao JD.COM, search all the electrical appliances you can think of, see the best sellers, and write down the prices. ?

Finally, open excel and add up all the quotations written in excel. ?

How's it going? Are you surprised? Is the budget greatly overspent? ?

Now is the real beginning of innovation: budget cuts.

2. cut the budget! ?

In the budget table, arrange the prices from high to low, and then cut them from top to bottom. ?

This favorite sofa must be abandoned, and the big TV with grass must be replaced with a smaller one. Only after repeated weighing can you understand what your new home is really important to you. ?

Adjusting the budget will not happen overnight, and every step of the decoration will be adjusted repeatedly. You never know how much you will overspend until you really move into your new home. ?

3. Measure the room in advance!

While making the above preparations, measure the house as soon as possible!

It is suggested to go to the property development drawings first, which will be much more accurate than finding them online. ?

However, the actual area of each household will definitely be different from the drawings due to reasons such as construction and age. So it's best to measure the house and make corrections on the basis of the drawings. ?

It is not difficult to measure a house. It's easy to learn by searching for "measuring house tutorial" on the Internet. Take a pen and paper, buy a good quality tape measure and do it yourself. ?

If you don't want to measure yourself, you can also ask the decoration company for help. Almost all decoration companies can test houses for free, but they should also be prepared to be bombarded by promotions. ?

4. Choose a style?

This step is simple: find a picture, find a picture, find a picture! Pinterest, Houzz, and live well have many excellent cases.

First decide your favorite style, Nordic, modern and simple, Japanese or Chinese. ?

Then in this style, I found a favorite apartment case and began to disassemble and learn.

Analyze your favorite cases and ask others why they use brass door handles and leather sofas. Why do you choose gray and dark green colors? ?

If it is difficult to disassemble, just draw a gourd ladle, and the color matching materials are all imitated. ?

5. Looking for a design?

Next, take the budget, room size and collected cases to find the design.

Two choices: traditional decoration company design, or professional interior designer/studio.

If the design requirements are not high, you can find a traditional decoration company to design. But don't expect too much. Although it is only a nominal design, it is basically for sales and project management. ?

Friends who are very picky about design suggest looking for a professional designer or studio. The price is relatively expensive, generally 10- 15% of the total budget.

A compromise solution is that it will be cheaper to do only design consultation, not specific renderings and construction drawings, and do the rest of the details yourself. ?

Step 6 design it yourself

Doing it yourself can leave a large budget. A pen, a piece of paper, a square for the sofa and a circle for the toilet. Drawing a floor plan by yourself is not as difficult as you think. ?

After painting, you must go to the field to feel it! ?

At that time, we kept the furniture of the previous landlord and rearranged it according to the reformed layout after the design was completed. I experienced it on the spot. Whether the design is reasonable or not is very intuitive.

If the house has been emptied, you can also bring a thick marker and doodle directly on the wall and floor! ?

In addition to the location of furniture, the location of switches, sockets and lights should also be planned. At that time, we also went to the construction site with pens and painted directly with the foreman. The more detailed, the better. ?

7. Looking for architecture

Two choices: find a decoration company, or directly find a foreman.

Regular decoration companies have their own long-term contract foreman, and the cooperation is relatively assured, and the price is also more expensive (the company wants to draw). ?

If there is a reliable foreman who has worked with acquaintances, you can also directly ask the foreman for a quotation, which is definitely cheaper, but the risk is relatively greater. Let's weigh it ourselves. ?

If you want to save money, choose half a package. Decoration accessories (such as cement pipes) need not be taken care of, and the main ingredients need to be purchased by themselves in Building Materials City, including tiles and latex paint. If you want to save trouble, choose all-inclusive. ?

8. Self-construction

I'm kidding. Why don't you make Lego yourself ...

8. Construction steps?

Demolition-Heating Renovation-Hydropower Renovation-Woodworking Ceiling Modeling (bricklayer enters the site synchronously)-Customized furniture length-Bricklayer tiling-Customized furniture length-Oiler scraping putty powder brush-Customized furniture installation-Installation of switch hardware-Household appliances-Soft decoration-Recycling and cleaning. ?

The details of each step will not be expanded. After the construction starts, a foreman will urge you to prepare.

There is no need to worry about understanding all the knowledge points at the beginning, which is unrealistic. When designing an apartment, it is not necessary to know the difference between primer and topcoat. Specific to that link, it is not too late to search Baidu Zhihu again. ?

9. Soft clothes?

Soft clothing depends on personal preference.

Hanging pictures, green plants, carpets and curtains are all soft. Buy whatever you like. If you are happy, it is not impossible to update the soft clothes every quarter. ?

10, environmental protection

Finally, talk about environmental protection issues that everyone cares about.

Formaldehyde mainly comes from rubber, which is released fastest in the first six months and gradually stabilized later. It will be released 15 years, and any decoration is inevitable. This is the first major pollution source, and the second is TVOC's total volatile organic compounds, which are only the sum of all volatile gases (even smoking and farting …).

Formaldehyde is tasteless, and TVOC is the source of "a decoration smell". There is only one standard for the right seat: concentration. The standard of the Ministry of Construction is that the formaldehyde concentration in indoor sealing should not exceed 0.08 mg/m for one hour? , TVOC does not exceed 0.6 mg/m3? .

When decorating, you will always receive various small advertisements, saying that you can provide formaldehyde detection and treatment. In a word, the test manager, who is both a referee and an athlete, is a hooligan. Of course, the most scientific thing is that testing and treatment should be separated, but the price is also very expensive. ?

Many simple hand-held detectors are actually wind speed sensors. When the air velocity is fast, it shows less formaldehyde. The reagents used in regular laboratories are all imported from the United States, and the mixing time of reagents cannot exceed 24 hours. Regular monitoring agencies need tens of thousands of yuan to do a test, which is not suitable for ordinary families at all. With this money to test, it is better to put all the furniture on solid wood and solve the problem from the root. ?

So we just use the common reagent bought by Taobao to judge the formaldehyde concentration according to the color. After all, what is more important than testing is governance.

Common treatment methods are nothing more than these: ventilation, green planting, activated carbon and formaldehyde scavenger. ?

Ventilation is the most effective and free way at present. High temperature environment+ventilation, better use effect. High temperature accelerates the release of formaldehyde, so summer is especially suitable for ventilation after decoration. If possible, it is suggested to equip some large fans to strengthen air convection. We even bought two industrial floor fans at that time. ?

Then there are green plants and activated carbon! Some people will say that green plants can't work, and plants with huge density are needed to have the role of in addition to formaldehyde; Activated carbon can't work, it will be saturated in a day or two, and it needs constant sunshine. As far as my own experience is concerned, a little effect is also a function, and talking is better than nothing. And it won't do any harm, don't worry about whether its function is 10 or 100. ...

At that time, we bought a lot of carbon bags, put them in various wooden cabinets, near the bedside and sofa, and then changed them regularly, exposed to the sun and ventilated them. ?

Then a tragic thing happened ... once I came home and found that the carbon bag was scratched by the cat. The whole floor and sofa are covered with black carbon particles, which will collapse after being rubbed for a long time. ?

This little introductory class is over today. I hope that after reading it, the newcomers have a bottom in their hearts and don't have to panic anymore. I also wish everyone a smooth renovation! ?

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