Where to start the renovation is a problem that many new owners are worried about, and everyone is very vague about this concept.

The new house will be renovated. Where should we start? Decoration is a big problem, all new owners are newcomers in this field, and they are very confused about how to start this problem. The most basic thing is to read more books, ask more questions, visit the market and shop around.

It is better to teach people to fish than to teach them to fish. Similarly, in order to ensure their own decoration, owners need to study more. In practice, there are more "chicken thieves".

For building materials and furniture, we should visit several building materials cities, building materials supermarkets and furniture cities to see how the same building materials and furniture are sold in different brands and through different sales outlets. If you can, go online to see how their word of mouth is.

Decoration construction depends on several construction sites. Don't start work in a hurry, you'd better wait until the neighbor's home improvement is repaired. Go and have a look. A well-done team, even a well-done worker, can stay and work for themselves.

Second, the functional design of the bedroom is the most important.

The most fundamental problem of decoration is that the owner must first ask himself: What do I (or our family) need?

The first thing involved in decoration is definitely design. The owner first puts forward his own needs and touches the designer, so that the designer can consider the functions needed by the owner in the design process and understand the information such as the owner's living habits and hobbies, so as to facilitate the designer to better combine functions and styles in the design process.

Because design is not just a drawing design, this concept may be one-sided. The bigger thing is to design what life needs. It is best to have a drawing or a design scheme to divide space and function. Finally, we should respect the space and function, and the third is the decoration style.

As for how the owner can imagine the functions needed in daily life in advance before renovation, one way is to draw a floor plan first, which room should do what, and first divide the general direction clearly. Then calm down, stay in that space, think about what I want to put here and what I want to do there, and imagine what my future life will be like, and I will know what I need.

So function comes before style. Some owners don't care about any function when they start decorating. Most small business owners initially consider style. Some owners are very practical, and they have clear ideas and think clearly about how to make better and more reasonable use of limited space.

Third, choose the right decoration team.

How to choose a decoration company? Just like talking about the object, you should be right.

What kind of decoration company to choose, first of all, we should consider our own economic affordability and choose one that is equivalent to our actual situation and affordability. The simplest, how much do you want to spend.

Big companies spend a lot of money, and small companies spend a little money. As owners, they must save. Owners may not have a clear budget, but many owners think of a brand. Many owners are more concerned about what is the most practical thing. How the owner chooses the construction team depends on the company, the designer, the foreman and the workers. This is the "chicken thief" we just talked about. You should be specific to each worker's operation. The new house has arrived, so there is no need to install it in a hurry. You can see more. This is also a way.

But for designers, this is particularly reluctant, because the owners always see the part, and then want to apply this part to their own home design.

There are several channels to choose a decoration company. First, go directly to the market to choose, as soon as you enter the market, you will definitely be taken away. You can have a full talk with these companies. Actually, I don't think quality has anything to do with the size of the company. When choosing a decoration company, you should read more and know more, and you can look at the projects under construction, which can fully show the management level and technical level of this company. Don't worry too much through this survey. Take the key today, install it tomorrow, and live for a month. First of all, you have to decide how much you want to spend on the installation, and you must consider the affordability.

The biggest advantage of a big company is that it is so-called good reliability and guaranteed in the later period. How about looking for a construction team? There is no guarantee in the later period. I am looking for suitable materials for my team. The price difference of this material is even greater.

Materials are much more than the cost of construction. After seeing the construction quality, we should consider our own economic bearing capacity.

Fourth, why can't the decoration overrun be eliminated?

Overexpenditure in decoration is an unavoidable problem for most owners. In the process of decoration, there are additional items. In fact, many times, cost overruns are caused by the owners themselves. How to exceed the limit?

For example, I saw this brick is good today, and our home has only been renovated once. This 40-yuan brick, that 50-yuan brick and that 50-yuan brick are all beautiful and not too much. So, just one, piece by piece, and finally it's much higher. In addition, for example, hydropower transformation is the most unpredictable, and the decoration company said it happened according to the actual situation. How did it happen?

As the owner, what function my home needs and how to use it when using it are all carefully considered by the owner before signing the contract. Take a moment, sit down in the house, think about your life, and you will know where the socket is. Don't listen to the decoration team telling you where to install it. Because only you know what you really need.

Some owners said, why do I know how to install this? I'm not from a design background. Of course, if you find a good designer who is responsible and familiar with your life, or he can be familiar with your life through understanding, he can also help you do this without your own trouble.

Some owners said, why should I consider these issues? Just because you want to save money, you should think more.

Five, first set the furniture and then prepare for decoration construction.

First, choose furniture according to the size of your home. Determine the placement of all kinds of furniture, and set the decoration tone and style of this house according to the furniture.

Then, on the basis of determining the placement position of furniture, determine the water and electricity nodes, that is to say, determine which places need sockets, which places need faucets and how much they need respectively. After the nodes are determined, the budget of hydropower transformation will be more reliable, avoiding the problem of crazy cost overruns in hydropower transformation in most decoration cases.

Next, determine whether the floor is paved or tiled. This is mainly chosen according to your own preferences. Personally, I prefer the practice of laying floors in the bedroom and tiles in the living room and kitchen. However, this practice requires raising the bedroom floor. Because the floor tiles are 35-40mm higher than the ground. The height of the floor (except solid wood) is only 8 to 12mm, and there is a gap between them, which leads to the uneven floor of the living room and bedroom, so the floor of the bedroom should be leveled with cement mortar, so that a consistent height can be formed after the floor is paved. If it is a solid wood floor, there is no need to heighten it. Because the solid wood floor needs keel, it will also raise a certain height.

Then it is to determine the functions of other functional areas. This is done step by step to maximize the effectiveness within the budget constraints.

It is suggested that other owners should consider the functions they need before decorating. I will always say this: you can't wait for the designer to tell you what features you need. Only you know what you need. When looking for a designer's owner, when communicating with the designer, he should communicate his functional requirements with the designer in detail, so that the designer can integrate practical functions with design.

Sixth, you can decorate without a designer.

At the shooting scene of home workers, a newly renovated owner shared his own decoration experience: completely abandoning the designer's decoration experience.

The first thing to do in decoration is to clarify the problem of money first. The owner first goes to the building materials market to see how much these things for decoration are worth. First of all, they should have a general concept of price in mind. Then measure yourself how much you plan to spend on decoration and what grade of products you can afford. So there is a rough budget.

The owner's decoration process almost completely abandoned the designer. First, she ordered white maple panel furniture. According to the style and color of furniture, basically set the tone of the whole decoration.

She also chose the way to decorate the background wall of the living room-pasting wallpaper, which she chose herself. According to the structure of the house, a small part of the ceiling is used to cover the beams. One wall of the bedroom is also wallpaper.

Then, the owner selects building materials such as tiles, cabinets, sanitary wares and lamps. When choosing ceramic tiles, there is a spirit worth learning: strictly control the budget. She originally liked the paving effect of 10* 10 small square brick; Later, I asked, the paving cost of this small square brick is very high, and sticking this brick will exceed the budget. So she gave up this kind of tile rationally.

The spirit of this budget is worth learning from decoration owners, unless there is no special case of decoration budget constraint. Why is decoration easy to overspend? A very important reason is that the mentality is a little indifferent. When buying building materials, it doesn't matter if it is a little more expensive here, and it doesn't matter if it is a little more expensive there. On the whole, it is seriously overspent.

Seven, choose the decoration company or choose the decoration guerrillas.

Choosing a decoration company or a decoration team is a question that most owners who intend to decorate have considered. Originally thought that many owners would choose decoration companies-because there is security. Later, I made a survey on the forum: Do you choose a decoration company or a decoration team for your home decoration (the results of the forum survey are for reference only)? It is found that the owners who originally chose the decoration company and the decoration team are evenly matched, and there is no result of favoring either side.

According to industry sources, many renovation sites, workers do not look at drawings. The designer posted the renderings on the spot, and the workers followed their feelings when they saw the renderings. When you meet a delicate worker, if you feel right, do something the same as the renderings; Unfortunately, if you meet a worker who feels bold and independent, then the host can only let nature take its course and ask for more happiness.

Some people say that people are doing decoration anyway, so it is better to find a decoration company to make them earn a layer of management money than a decoration team. This is a way of saying.

Zhuang Jie is really a very personal thing. Whether the company is good or not, whether the brand is strong or not, in the final analysis, all the workers are working. No one can give a standard answer to the choice of decoration team or decoration company, and no one can help others make this decision. Because there are too many uncertainties, no one can help others bear the consequences of this decision.

Of course, there are also some serious work teams in this market, which bring customers by word of mouth and are down-to-earth decoration teams. This kind of decoration team is hard to meet. However, the decoration company is guaranteed after sale, which is also an overwhelming advantage that the decoration team can hardly shake.

Eight, it is cost-effective to buy the main material or choose the decoration package.

Many decoration companies have a variety of decoration packages, making it difficult for owners to choose. Is it cost-effective to choose these various decoration packages, or is it cost-effective to buy half a package of building materials for decoration?

The host of the decoration forum thinks that it is most appropriate to take the integrated home route. It's just that many things are made in factories, so try to reduce the things made on the spot. Designers do more matching work. In this way, one is to reduce the pollution of the decoration site; At the same time, it can also prevent the parties from shirking each other when there are quality problems after loading.

Back to the topic, which is more cost-effective?

In fact, buying building materials is not necessarily more cost-effective than decorating packages. Because decoration companies cooperate with building materials suppliers, they buy a lot of building materials. Even if the decoration company profits from it, the price may not be more expensive than the owner's individual purchase of a small amount of building materials in the building materials market. When buying building materials, the most important thing is to shop around, so as to have a bottom of the price.