How should home decoration be done? How much does it cost? This is a headache for every owner. Whether you are decorating a small apartment in Hangzhou or a luxury villa in Shanghai, you should make a good decoration budget. If you don't make a decoration budget, it may lead to your decoration being suspended halfway because the money has run out, which is something that every owner doesn't want to encounter. So how to make a good decoration budget? How to customize a decoration budget?
Firstly, you need to accurately understand the indoor area of your home. You can present your decoration requirements and let the decoration company give you an estimate. Or the decoration company will help with the design and budget based on the total decoration price you provide, then you review it. Let the designer draw the indoor design plan, mark the living and usage requirements of each room on the drawing, list the decoration project list, estimate according to the market price, and finally get the decoration budget.
Secondly, you must clarify the materials and processes that should be used for decoration. You need to understand what materials and processes constitute the quotation of the decoration company. When you see the phrase "wall paint 40 RMB/square meter" on the quotation sheet, you need to ask clearly what kind of wall paint it is, because there are many kinds of wall paints, and the prices of each kind of paint vary.
The specific process should also be written clearly. For example, the vague statement of oil work "one bottom ten faces" has many ambiguities. If "one bottom" refers to primer instead of putty, the price of material and labor will be more expensive. If the wooden base is not firmly treated and all becomes nail connection, the price will also be different.
Generally speaking, the materials that must be used for decoration include: floor tiles, paint, baseboards, floors, coatings, plaster lines, curtain tracks, door locks, door catches, hinges, switch panels, power sockets, TV sockets, air conditioning sockets, curtains, cookers, range hoods, sinks, sink faucets, toilet paper racks, shelves, towel rods, bath towel racks, soap racks, etc.
You need to understand different measurement methods. For example, when making wooden cabinets, some companies use "linear meters" as a unit, while others use "square meters". When looking at the unit price to calculate the price, you need to understand it clearly; the price of door frames differs, and the price of single-sided packaging and double-sided packaging is also different; you should also understand whether the calculation method of wall paint by square meters is consistent with the calculation method of raw material price + construction fee, and whether the floor costs include items such as baseboards, clips, installation fees, etc. Due to unclear measurement methods, projects that are missed on-site during construction inevitably require additional procedures, affecting the budget and increasing expenses.
There are three "fees" in decoration budgets:
Design fee: When owners choose designers, they should not blindly believe the design drawings given by the designer, because you don't know if he designed them. Owners can have more conversations with the designer about his design philosophy, past design cases, etc., and judge the designer's depth from the conversation.
Management fee: Making a good decoration budget actually involves a lot of things to do, and here we just simply listed some of the most basic steps to make a decoration budget. Before making a decoration budget, owners must read more materials and learn more about decoration knowledge, so as to ensure that their decoration is both quality and not wasteful.
Labor fee: Multiply the daily wage of each worker by the number of people and days to get the total labor fee, which the owner can negotiate with the decoration company.
The number of decoration projects and engineering quantities are direct factors that affect the cost, building materials and processes, etc., are key factors that affect the cost. In addition, the qualifications, scale, management level, etc., of the decoration company also have different charging standards. Therefore, before decorating, you must first go to the market to investigate. After fully understanding the prices of various building materials and labor fees, you can roughly make a decoration budget, and be prepared.