Because it is a rough house, there are too many homework to do from scratch. Thanks to the sharing of many predecessors on the internet, we chose several key points for interviews when looking for designers, successfully found our favorite designers and completed our dream new home.
Decorating the house itself is a personal aesthetic achievement conference, and it is necessary to accumulate the aesthetic feeling of everything at ordinary times, otherwise, when choosing various materials or accessories, you will often fall into the abyss of choice obstacles.
I think we are really lucky to meet our designers and interview three designers, all of which are good and practical, but only our designers can brilliantly point out the defects of the pipeline configuration of the house and propose ways to correct them, so as to make the use of space more flexible. In fact, before the interview, he was not our first choice, but after the interview, the designer's gentle and steady talk made people feel trust, and it was very likely that a very good solution was put forward flexibly on the spot, which made people feel very designed.
Because my husband and I like different styles, we often fight with each other when discussing the decoration of our new home. My husband likes calm and elegant style, and I like the fresh air in northern Europe. The ingenious combination of these two styles is simply extreme. I don't know how the designer managed to get away from our decoration arena, but the result of the integration later made us both satisfied.
Because decoration is a long aesthetic and pocket test, so I summed up a few of my own little experiences and want to share them with you, hoping to give reference to friends who are planning a new home.
Because some netizens left a message and wanted to see the floor plan, I attached the floor plan of my home. If you want to know, you can have a look first.
First, the key steps to find a designer. Our house is a rough house. At first, I thought I was very talented in design, and I could find a transfer contract. However, it was later found that there were too many details such as grouting and pulling pipes from compartments. I immediately dismissed the foolish idea that my new house would be destroyed. There must be a difference between the price of finding a designer and the price of finding a shift directly.
But I think each has its own advantages. The advantage of contracting out by yourself is to save money, but the disadvantage is that if the design ability of the workshop is not good enough, you will live in an ugly house for 20 years (but if you want the workshop to have the same design ability as the designer, I believe you also have the potential to be an Olympic guest). Besides, you have to have enough knowledge and expertise to supervise this work.
The advantage of finding a designer is that the fineness and design texture will be better. If there is any problem with the house in the future, the designer will be responsible for it, not the shift of each job. Of course, the disadvantage of finding a designer is that it is simple and straightforward, and it is more expensive.
I think we can pay attention to several key points when looking for a designer in the early stage:
1. Confirm your favorite style by reading a lot and look for designers with similar styles. After we decided to find a designer, we read many designers' works on the Internet, mostly from facebook, interior design and happy space (this is basically something I don't like because it feels like paid advertising, but it is also one of the references).
Basically, I fully promote the interior design app. In addition to a large number of easy-to-read pictures, it can also help you search for designers in nearby areas. After locking in 3-5 designers you like, I will interview them one by one. I think we should know more about various styles of decoration, our own preferences, and then lock in designers with similar styles, so that we can have something to say when we meet again.
In addition, I also fully recommend pinterst, mainly to improve your aesthetic feeling. There are many beautiful pictures in it. I will save all my favorite pictures. When interviewing designers, I will clearly tell them which part I like to decorate, such as the collocation of lamps and tables, the collocation of iron pieces and cabinets, and so on. Not just the general atmosphere of a picture, because when you clearly identify the elements, the designer will know the direction better.
2.？ Thank you for sharing the details of the contract. Let us know that there is a standardized renovation contract. It can be downloaded from the Construction Department of the Ministry of Interior. What is the best picture in the contract? Do you need to pay extra for the map?
I think the Ministry of the Interior has given us a model, and you can change it to what you want. I just added the version of the construction department of the Ministry of the Interior, made some changes and adjustments according to the contract given by the designer, and adjusted a version that we both felt was reasonable. After all, it is an agreement between the two sides, and it is very important for both sides to agree.
3. After listing the valuation list in detail, I will definitely leave two lines of tears for myself silently, especially the decoration materials and construction fees are such an opaque market. There are too many details about buying food and fish, and I don't know what the market price is.
So at that time, I asked the designer to clearly indicate the brand, thickness and size of all material items on the valuation list (so my valuation list is basically a small book), and because the valuation list is marked in detail, when I reviewed the list, I saw at a glance that the designer's materials were not real and the prices were reasonable. This kind of online search is very easy.
I often see a kind of article on the internet, that is, someone casually throws a valuation list and asks if the price is reasonable. But the appraisal content is a wooden cabinet of xxxxx yuan. To tell the truth, we can only know whether it is reasonable or not. Take my wooden cabinet for example, it is written like this. Material: F3 6, ZTE Lu 'an wood core board 1, half-bottom yongxin hornbeam, KD coated veneer k6 187as, K61KLOC-0/Ru, Hetai F3 Boli board in the cabinet. On the one hand, there will be less construction disputes in the future, on the other hand, it will be reassuring to know what materials you have used.
So I suggest that when you estimate the list, you must be able to ask the designer to provide the estimated content as clearly as possible. For a penny, the price of each grade of material quality is definitely different.
It is very important to summarize and list the appraisal items in detail, because it is also part of your contract and has legal effect.
From the interior decoration, when deciding the budget allocation, I also believe in a concept, especially where I value it very much. If you are hesitant just because something is expensive, buy it. If you want to buy something just because it is cheap, don't buy it. Of course, not everything follows this rule, just don't keep it in a place that you value very much, because you will definitely regret it later.
Second, there is actually only one principle to control other funds, that is, price comparison! My new home is bound to buy a lot of small things. I bought some things myself at Amazon and Taobao in Germany. Please make full use of international shopping. I want to recommend several websites.
1. Amazon, Germany. I bought a series of sanitary wares in Hansgeya. The price is at least lower than that in Taiwan Province Province. 1/3. The quality is good and fast, and I can get a tax refund. I can pass the German Level 1 exam by the way.
2. Amazon in the United States is also very easy to buy, and some household items are recommended to be put away on Thanksgiving Day.
Taobao is really cheap, but the shopping experience is very thrilling. Can things be delivered intact? Is the email consistent with the photo? They are all big problems. It just collapsed with the rush of logistics, and the feeling of being close to the customer service was disgusting. So I only dare to buy some small vases or something, which is ok. I have bought lamps boldly, but I still feel that the quality is not good enough after receiving the real goods, and there will also be the problem of voltage plug mismatch (it is recommended not to buy quality-oriented things on Taobao, but small ones can).
4.？ The lighting quality in Xi Zhi, Taiwan Province Province is really good.
Third, the focus of attention and acceptance during supervision I think it is best to walk around more during construction, rummage through the electrical appliances, and put forward improvement suggestions immediately. It's best to find out all the problems that can be found before moving in, because once the furniture is in, it doesn't want to be repaired.
I checked almost all the acceptable parts before I checked in. There are really some places that need to be repaired, such as painting dirty walls and so on. These are small things that you will find troublesome to do after you check in. If you finish them before you check in, you will save a lot of unnecessary trouble.
Well, these are some key points that I think should be paid attention to before and after interior design, so I won't bother to show you the pictures. Let's enjoy my home!
Fourth, the beauty of completion.
The porch sliding door opens.
Speaking of the porch, it was also the focus of the original design discussion. Because of the demand of geomantic omen, the porch had to stay, but we didn't want the porch to occupy too many positions in the main space, which was very wasteful, so the designer designed an arc walkway for the porch to form a natural moving line, which made you feel really porch when you walked into the room. However, the elastic sliding door can decide to separate or merge the porch space into the main space at any time.
There is a row of TV monitors in the living room.
Wooden back wall of sofa inlaid with iron sheet
Panorama of living room
The living room is mainly made of iron, wood skin and marble, because I like the space with fresh wood and bright colors, and the warm and clean style is Nordic or not printed. Mr. Wang likes the calm and atmospheric texture and black tone stone skin, which is simply a local tyrant style (wrong). We both like different styles. When choosing materials, it's almost like the new wall is destined to marry Jack Nicholson.
However, the designer skillfully combined these two elements with marble elements. The white tone of marble still keeps the space bright as I like, bringing the grandeur of the kind of stone that Mr. Wang likes. White stone can be matched with light-colored wood and black iron pieces at the same time, without appearing abrupt. We all like this collocation very much and feel full of style. You did a good job.
White back wall with embossed geometric finish
Look into the dining room from the kitchen.
Continues the tone of veneer/white background/marble, extending from the living room to the dining room. I chose a marble table with golden legs that I thought was expensive in the living room table. My ostentatious husband said that he was satisfied with the local style (obviously the Upper East Side style of new york).
This is the corner of the restaurant under the lamp that I think is super beautiful.
The beautiful restaurant makes up for the regret that our family can't have an open kitchen. It turned out that Xiao Xiang had a bright island, and the whole family gathered in front of the island to drink red wine and cook and chat elegantly. No, not at all. There are only two children in my family running around all day. We don't drink red wine.
Instead, it is an independent kitchen space, with a consistent style of sliding doors inlaid with black glass and wood, forming a beautiful scenery near the wall, effectively preventing the crazy woman in the kitchen from rushing out of food after work, leaving the elegance of the living room and dining room in front of the door to open, and maintaining the sense of openness when not cooking.
In addition, the wooden geometric collage of the dining room wall is actually a cupboard. Because I don't like the mess on the dining table, I asked the designer to help me make a cabinet that can be stored, so the designer decided to dig a space from the wall of the public bathroom for the restaurant to use. A storage space is hidden in the cupboard by the wall, which can keep the dining table clean. There is a socket hidden in the small lift cover below. After opening, you can insert an electromagnetic donkey to eat hot pot in winter, and the small hole left on the small lifting cabinet can let the thread out without the whole lifting, which keeps the appearance beautiful. This is a masterpiece.
Now I am very satisfied with my cool black tone, small but explosive kitchen and more storage space.
Simple corridors are not simple. The reserved chandelier space adds warmth to this simple and handsome aisle. The wall on the left is a glass magnetic wall, ready to draw ghosts for children. Parents talk nonsense and stick magnets.
Master bedroom back wall veneer+thick seam skin
But we insist on using chandeliers when we know that there are children at home (it's beautiful if we can't, we are just superficial people! ! )
The wall is inlaid with iron glass to keep the light penetrating.
The master bathroom keeps the marble color, which is marble control for us.
It's beautiful through the glass. The dirty clothes reserved in the cupboard are really practical, the dirty clothes basket is not exposed, and the aesthetic feeling is improved!
The transparent brightness of the main bath makes us feel like a fake hotel.
The master bedroom is also one of my favorite spaces. Why? Because there is a walk-in wardrobe and a beautiful and big bathroom, there is no regret for women. Case closed.
Gong * * * sanitary bathroom
Fangfang sanitary bathroom
I think our designers can really specialize in building toilets. He is really good at designing toilets. The faucets in public toilets have a sense of design. It uses a rose-gold-tone iron pipe as a faucet, which has an extraordinary sense of design. The bathroom in the children's room is so beautiful that I can sleep in it.
Verb (verb's abbreviation) Feeling I think interior decoration is to trust your intuition. Whether looking for a designer, setting a style or choosing materials, tone will choose him as long as you feel comfortable!
Because this is a very emotional thing, if you have nothing to say to the designer at first, or the feeling of speaking is always strange, then give up, indicating that the designer and you have no chance, don't blindly trust the famous designer, because other people's honey juice may be your poison, I wish everyone can successfully complete their dream home!