I myself do hydropower and carpentry on-site construction. I also manage more than 10 home improvement sites every year. Let me tell you something based on my experience and customer feedback.
There are so many regrets. Especially during the first renovation.
1. Not planning the location and relationship of furniture and sockets in advance, causing inconvenience in later use.
The decoration should not only focus on the walls, the ground, and the ceiling. Before the construction team enters, the size of the furniture, the height of the socket, and the relationship between them should be conceived. It is best to have a very detailed idea.
The first thing to be clear is that your home is not for others to see, but for yourself to live in. This involves use and vision. If you want a high quality of living, you need the most convenient to use, and then comfort and even luxury on the basis of convenience; and visually, what you want is the most attractive, and then the beauty or even high on the basis of attractiveness Compelling. In recent years, due to the commercial promotion of the home improvement industry, and because ordinary people are at a loss for the first intervention in home improvement, the first thing most families think of before decoration is style. I like the Mediterranean, I like the European and American style, I like the new Chinese style, I like the simple European and Japanese style Victoria, or what kind of bed I want to buy, what kind of chair I want to buy, I must put something in my living room, what I love Objects. You can think about it as much as you like. However, it must be clear that style is by no means the key to the quality of residence, whether it is American retro or Han style legacy, whether it is industrial style or Japanese style, not to mention that the style you love is suitable for the apartment type, floor height, Illumination and spatial pattern, not to mention whether you have the financial, material and human resources to make the style well in place and not low, once it is not good to use, there will be no quality. Please keep in mind that style must be a second-level existence in home decoration. You can pursue her, but she has nothing to do with the use.
To be easy to use, you must consider several very important issues that affect long-term use at the beginning, such as:
. What kind of different furniture is enough for each room of yours, and it is not crowded? How much furniture do you need for each room?
·How to arrange the furniture in each room of yours, so that it will be the most convenient to use in the future and the room's activity space will be the largest?
as well as:
·The furniture you are going to put in this room, do you need sockets on the walls and the ground near it? ·Can this furniture block the sockets on the wall?
·Does this piece of furniture need to cover the socket on the wall? ·Where will you be likely to use the socket in the future? ·Where will you frequently use the socket in the future?
·How many sockets are suitable for these places? The sockets are suitable for use now, and when you add various electrical appliances and toys in the future, you are guaranteed to be sufficient?
for example:
Bedside table socket. It is not too convenient to use. Think about the scenario where you can charge after you switch your hands after you swipe all kinds of screens in bed before going to bed at night. Of course, the use of the bedside table socket is more than that, if you want, you can still be lazy to blow your hair on the bed, right. The point is that such an easy-to-use socket must be exposed and taller than your bedside table. In other words, before you decorate, you need to determine how big and wide your bed is, whether this room can hold one bedside table or two, and then where the bedside table is, take a ruler in the room and draw with a pen. The location of the socket is determined. Out. Then there is the socket height. You need to set the height of the bedside table first, then the socket should be 15cm-25cm higher than it. Of course, the floor you installed still has a height of 5-10cm. For example, your favorite bedside table is 40cm high. When you decorate, the height of the socket on the bedside table must be about 60-70cm above the ground. That is, the bedside table socket is 20-35cm more than the height of your bedside table. Regarding the size of the furniture, most beds are similar in size. The bedside table is smaller and larger in size, so you can check a certain treasure or Baidu first and choose by yourself. If you have no idea about the size, when choosing, it is best to take a tape measure to the room and make a gesture to see how high the bedside table with a height of 35, 40, 45, 50 will be from the ground. Be diligent, don't think about it, and don't just look at the pictures on the Internet, it's useless.
The socket behind the TV cabinet. This must be a row of sockets. Unlike the bedside table sockets, if this row of sockets is exposed (higher than the TV cabinet), it must be ugly. Especially if the TV is hung on the wall instead of on the TV cabinet-it means that you can't hide this row of sockets with the hanging TV-then please imagine waiting for you to live in, above the row of white sockets , It will be full of thick plugs for your TV, player, game console, set-top box, other boxes, maybe there are mobile phone charging plugs for yourself and your family, guests who are in urgent need of charging but can’t find a socket, etc. Wait, it feels like a word, chaos. And Chinese people are always used to placing the TV cabinet in the middle of the end wall of the living room. As a result, almost every day you can see the row of crushed plugs and sturdy wires every day, which is really depressing. Also, if the other sockets in the living room are not set enough, it might be a good place to charge your mobile phone for the sake of convenience. At this time, if you want to play with your mobile phone while charging, you can only sit on the TV cabinet. How do I know? Because I used to be like this, and I think it’s so stupid to sit awkwardly in my own home.
Socket for the desk. If you have a desk, you will usually write on the desk or play on the computer/ipad/kindle/phone/tablet and so on. The desk is generally placed against the wall, so the socket should be near the desk. It is best to have two groups, one high and one low. The tall one is higher than the desk, and the low one is lower than the desk. Remember don’t just set it under the desk. The socket under the desk is just to hide the plugs and wires you don’t want to see, such as the pile of thick wires on a desktop computer. Other than that, it’s useless. And the wall higher than the desk is where you can reach with your hand. It is best to set up a row of sockets, so that you can plug in all kinds of chargers as you like, and you can use all kinds of power-hungry screens without any worries. NS. Of course, if you want, you can also blow your hair calmly in front of the desk.
Socket for the dining table. Only after using it will I know how simple and elegant it is to use all kinds of electronic pots on the dining table without plugging in the power strip. Eating at home is convenient and healthy. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could shabu-shabu barbecue on the table at any time? An outlet must be installed on the wall near the table or on the floor of the table. Personally, I don't like to set the socket on the ground under the dining table. Although the ground plug is more cable-saving and can be closed, it is possible to touch the metal cover of the ground plug when sitting on a dining chair with your feet stretched out, and it feels that the ground is not complete. So I chose to set it on the wall near the dining table. Only after using it, I found that it is not only convenient to plug in various pots, but also to charge when sitting at the dining table, which is very convenient.
Socket in the kitchen. The quantity must be only a lot more. In addition to fixed sockets such as refrigerators, ovens, steamers, disinfection cabinets, dishwashers, etc., you should also consider at least three sets of sockets, each set to ensure two or more, preferably three sets of three in each group, so basically before you change rooms use. For the reference number of kitchen sockets, you need to consider the microwave ovens, rice cookers, juicers or wall breakers, electric pressure cookers, electric kettles, etc. that you and your family may use in the most brilliant and busy cooking in the kitchen. Generally speaking, the plugs of appliances such as microwave ovens and rice cookers do not need to be plugged and unplugged every time, which requires a certain number of sockets with switches. Of course, it is difficult to use many electric kitchen utensils in your home at the same time, but when they need sockets, the sockets must be there.
Other sockets. Only you can't think of it, you can't do it. In addition to the sockets at the fixed locations mentioned above, the sockets on the walls of each room also need to be considered. This will increase the cost of hydropower transformation, but it will make life more convenient, and it will never make you regret it. For example, on the wall of a guest restaurant (public space), electric doorbells, electric mosquito coils, air purifiers (if there is no fresh air system), humidifiers, wireless speakers, and sweeper sockets may be considered. For some bedroom sockets, you may want to consider electric mosquito coils, vacuum cleaners, purifier sockets, and so on.
Add one more point, the number of sockets. Comfort never ends. The lives of you and your family will definitely need more and more tools, and these tools often require electricity. Therefore, regardless of the sockets in any place, if possible, you must install twice the number of sockets you can imagine, which will be very convenient in the future.
Regarding the sockets in the home, I hope everyone remembers a word: The power strip is the only thing that reduces the quality of home life. It is not only ugly and redundant, but also easy to be trampled on. It is precisely because the sockets are not considered during the decoration that there will be opportunities for later plug-in boards. Once a patch panel appears, there will be more patch panels all over the house. The large and heavy plastic plates and the sturdy cables are helplessly piled up in a corner where sockets should have been set up, which is absolutely heartbreaking. The patch panel must be the last resort. This is not an office area. This is your own home, a place that should be relaxed, pleasant and warm. If you can use a patch panel, what do you want to do with the quality of living?
2. The kitchen and bathroom are messy to save money, resulting in poor quality of various facilities and details, frequent problems, and premature replacement
My lesson is: Use the best you can accept for all the facilities and equipment in the kitchen and bathroom. Try to use quality brands as much as possible. Otherwise, the troubles are endless.
When I first decorated the kitchen cabinets, I chose a manufacturer that I didn’t know very well in order to save 20-30% of the money. As a result, after a few years of renovation, problems continued. The countertop is cracked, the sink is not tightly sealed, water leaks, the door hinge of the base cabinet is broken, and the panel is easy to stain and difficult to clean. There are so many different things. After a few years, the manufacturer went bankrupt and the after-sales service was in vain. Before I moved out, I had to change the whole house to make it easier to rent out the house. Bloody lesson.
Since the kitchen and bathroom are closely related to home life, the frequency of use is too high, and the facilities and equipment of the noodles must be durable, which requires excellent quality. -Generally speaking, big brands will definitely be much better, but don’t be fooled by the people in the home furnishing store. You should know more about it than a few, and ask people around you who have bought it, and don’t worry about it. For example, in the kitchen cabinet, the price/performance ratio of a certain school is very problematic. The kitchen cabinet doesn’t
There are too many advanced craftsmanship, and the current market is becoming more and more mature. Due to the origin and cost, the cost-effective kitchen cabinets are generally brands in the region, not national brands, let alone national super-large brands. To tell the truth, the reputation of some major domestic brands is nothing more than advertising. It costs money to advertise on CCTV every day. This money is not made from consumers. Where can you make it?
Bathroom facilities are the same as kitchen facilities, and quality must pass. Kitchen cabinets don't have too much precision craftsmanship, and may pursue foreign brands. But for bathroom facilities, according to my experience, due to the factors of production technology and product materials, although you may feel pain when choosing a joint venture or foreign brand, it is indeed much better in quality and even after-sales than domestic brands. Of course, I am not saying that domestic brands are not good. In fact, many domestic brands of sanitary ware are still economical, with higher cost performance, and more durable. In terms of the overall scope, for most, ordinary, non-professional, Chinese, and mainland households, the mid-to-high-end bathroom products are still foreign brands. If you do
If you don’t want to change the bathroom products during your residence period, the most regrettable thing is to spend more money and choose a good quality after-sales brand.
Simply talk--the next few important bathroom facilities.
tub. It is best not to use acrylic material, please remember. The bathtub is preferably made of cast iron or ceramic or other materials. Because acrylic is the best substitute for bathtubs, it feels good because it is cheap and affordable. However, the acrylic ichthyosaurs on the market are mixed. You may not be able to distinguish real acrylic from fake acrylic. Even if it is true, the aging of acrylic is much higher than the latter two, and it is very inconvenient to clean. Especially for lazy people, for those who take a bath for many times and then wash the bathtub once, the cleaning of acrylic is very troublesome. It takes a lot of effort to wash the bathtub once, which will also exhaust all your passion. Soaking in the bathtub will become a psychological burden. Of course, lazy people who can see this do not have this problem, I have to say that this is also a kind of happiness, right.
Integral shower room. The drain of the shower room must be laid out in advance. If it can be changed, it can not be changed. Then we must pay attention to the alignment relationship between the drain of the shower room and it. Don't place the floor drain on the east side, and the drain of the overall shower room on the west side, so the installer will connect a pipe for you, or, generally speaking, not connect it at all. Then I vowed to tell you that it's okay, your ground has a good slope, and the water is sure
Can be drained away. In fact, this is to let your bath water gurgling on the ground, and it will soon spread from below the overall shower room to other ground. Haha, when you take a bath, you will experience what it means to be full of water and choking silently. I personally suggest that if possible, the bathroom floor can be used as a shower partition (tempered safety glass + stone base), which is simple, convenient, transparent, beautiful and easy to clean. But-we must pay attention to the drainage slope of the ground, not only to be easy to drain, but also to stand steadily.
Metal pendants in the bathroom. Hanging handsome, hanging bath towels, hanging paper inserts, hanging toilet brushes, hanging clothes changing, hanging bath flower bath brush bath ball, including partitions for toiletries, partitions for toiletries, and so on. For these metal parts, at least high-quality stainless steel is used for banknotes. Perhaps reputable manufacturers can not rust (usually). I have used so-called high-quality stainless steel products that look shining at first, but the price is not cheap. At this time, when you go to the toilet every day and look at the pile of mottled metal, you feel that they can be fixed so well. For the metal pendants of kitchen and bathroom, most people believe that a good choice must be copper parts with electroplated layers, such as common copper and chrome plating. It is beautiful, but it is not easy to rust. When I first renovated, other metal parts were exposed to their rusty nature not long after they were used. Only the two-tube chrome-plated washbasin faucet was still shiny when I moved out. It was like a new one, which is really amazing. Gratified. Of course, copper and chrome-plated pendants are expensive, heavy, and feel good. Therefore, it is not recommended to buy on the e-commerce platform, because you can't identify it at all. Think about the basics of your kitchen and bathroom-you don't know how to replace the pendants on the wall. A few top metal parts are worth it.
sink. Do not use above counter basins. The above counter basin looks beautiful, but the height is too high and not suitable for children; after long-term use, the space under the basin is very easy to contain dirt and dirt, which is very difficult to take care of; and the above counter basin is not suitable for washing hands, washing face, Shampoo, feet, and veil can all quickly and blindly splash water onto the countertop under the basin, creating an out-of-control situation. So you can't take long-term trouble just to look at the beauty.
toilet. The toilet itself does not have too much craftsmanship, and the materials are mostly various ceramics, which can be selected according to your own needs. Pay attention to the side of the toilet, please reserve a socket. How else would you install all kinds of cool toilet lids in the future?
Wall tiles for kitchen and bathroom. There are too many choices in this area, and it depends mainly on personal preference. But on the ground, don't use colors that are too dark or too light, such as pure black and pure white. Many people think that pure black is not only cool, but can also cover up uncleanness. Countless facts have proved this to be extremely wrong. The pure color can bring out all kinds of water stains and dirt that you cause very well. Of course, so is white. Therefore, try to use gray and brown colors that are neither too dark nor too light.
3. The blind pursuit of beautiful or unnecessary functions makes the TV wall extremely complicated, causing discomfort in the later stage
The lesson is: TV wall-don't be complicated, and don't need too much storage function. -A TV wall, simple, generous, and texture. Insert here a description of why you want to mention the TV wall. Up to now, most Chinese families watch TV or display TV in the living room due to historical and habitual reasons. Therefore, the living room of most Chinese families is also centered on TV. This is a far cry from the fact that the living room in some Western countries is often centered on the fireplace, centered on the very elegant coffee table, and so on. This is not to compare which method is higher, but to discuss how to make the TV wall better for the already ubiquitous Chinese families.
This is a lesson from many friends' homes. -Generally speaking, the living room is centered on the TV, and the wall behind the TV is also an important background. If this wall is not treated at all, it is obvious that a large white wall is indeed not very beautiful and has no residential texture. The video wall needs to be dealt with. But don't make the TV wall very complicated, because you and your family spend more time on the sofa than you think, and you will spend a lot of time facing this wall. What you have to do is not to let this wall become your visual or even psychological burden in the end, but to adjust the background elegantly or easily.
Someone went to the furniture store early in the morning and saw the integrated TV wall. They thought the furniture was very good. You can frame the LCD TV in the center, with various shelves and boxes next to it. After being in love for a long time, the shelves and boxes are filled with various furnishings and sundries. They become a sundries storage rack that confronts you on the sofa every day. In the end, because of its ugliness and mess, I have to Replace. Even if your living habits are very good and you are very diligent, the integral TV wall cabinet can be cleaned up more neatly, but it is still difficult to avoid long-term visual fatigue.
Some people didn’t know what partial photos of foreign rooms were seen before the decoration. They boldly made the entire TV wall into an open bookcase or an open shelf, from left to right, from top to bottom, all-grid boxes , The TV is still framed in the center. -At first, I felt quite a literary style, but over time, it became the biggest visual obstacle in the family. Why? Because it is too complicated and the ring is easy to clean and take care of. Bookshelves or shelves are ugly, but every day you enter the door and sit down and look at the grid of shelves with some books or objects on them. Are you sure you won’t get bored in a few years? Someone told me to be honest, saying that some sulky If you like books and bookshelves, you like to look at the bookshelves. Believe me, like a thing, and you obsessively watch it every day, it will definitely not be the same kind of feeling.
Simplicity and texture are the most durable source of comfort. This is true both visually and psychologically.
The home where you get along day and night is not a display space. Believe me, in fact, after you moved in, apart from your relatives and friends, there weren’t many other people here until forever. Most of the time, it was your family and you. And the people who come to your house will not care about your feelings inside after they leave. Whether it is comfortable or not is your own true feeling. Therefore, when decorating, please give up the obsession with some of the beautiful photos you found, and think about what a TV wall that you have basically never bored, bored, or frantic looking like should be like. If you don’t want to use your brain, even if you pave the entire wall with wooden planks, pave the entire wall with nice-looking tiles, and paint the entire wall with a mid-color diatom mud, its durability and durability will be better than that of making various partitions on the wall. Or the lines are countless times stronger.
4. Misunderstanding that all kinds of lights will improve the quality of living
The lesson is: In addition to the lights in the guest restaurant, lights will never improve the quality of living, never. Even if you choose too much, the quality of living will decrease. Bedrooms and study rooms need more refreshing space, and the lights do not need to be in a distracting position. Don't spend too much money on the lamp, no one looks at it, including yourself.
Please remember a formula first: weird and complicated lights = difficult to clean = you will never clean = visual burden after getting dirty = beginning chaos and ending = a pile of waste = distressed yourself = waste of your own money
The second formula: simple and generous lamp = easy to clean = no need to clean = no visual burden = long-term non-replacement = replacement without psychological burden.
Here we need to insert another explanation: that is, the proper use of light can improve the quality of the home; but the proper use of light is not the same as buying a lot of lights to hang on the ceiling or on the wall. Proper use of light refers to the use of light in a clear and focused manner. Please don't confuse lighting with lamps.
The space of home is very private. The main function of the lamp in the home is to provide necessary and sufficient lighting, followed by providing light to increase the atmosphere in addition to the necessary lighting, and then the aesthetics of the lamp itself has an impact on the quality of living. Influence. Please be sure to understand the diminishing importance of these. Most families do not have professional lighting design capabilities. They are easily confused by a lot of tempting statements and pictures of beautiful homes that P obtained from a mother and a child. The blood surged, and finally bought a lot of lights and The light strip has not yet reached the ideal light effect, so why bother. What's more, the home space is different from commercial, catering and other spaces, and the requirements for lighting design are not so critical. Even if you ask a designer with a good foundation to do a home lighting match, even if you do a good job, you will not turn on many lights in the future. Basically, you can only turn on during the New Year's Day. at home. Therefore, my point of view is that for most families, relying on various lights or light sets to improve the quality of living is a very low cost-effective choice.
Of course you can choose the lamp you like, but never expensive. Even if you force it to be relatively high, after screening, the lights in the Lighting City are no problem, as long as the quality is good, you can change it within ten and a half months. Generally speaking, the most important thing you need to choose is the living room and dining room lights, because the public space is the place where the family spends the most time. For the lights, there are certain requirements for comfort and beauty. In addition, a simple and easy-to-use ceiling lamp with sufficient illuminance is sufficient for the lights in the bedroom, study, bathroom, kitchen, and balcony.
It is best not to have all the lights in a home be the same color. The kitchen and bathroom lights are simple and bright. The lights in the bedroom and study should have dimming function as much as possible, and it is best to switch the color temperature (ie, switch between cold and warm). There are often three or more lights in the guest restaurant, and try to match cold and warm, that is, cold light and warm light. This depends on personal preference. Generally speaking, cold light is the mainstay, warm light is the supplement, and vice versa. If you and your family hope that the night effect of the guest dining room is bright and clear, illuminating the walls, and reading all kinds of text books throughout the night, then obviously the main light needs to be cold light, and the auxiliary light source is adjusted with warm light, such as Table lamps and floor lamps that may exist on the side of the sofa. If you want the night effect to be warm and inviting, and stay for a while and sleep deeply, the main light should be warm light. At this time, the auxiliary light source, such as the downlight in the corridor, should use cold light as much as possible.
As for the lamp strips, lamp troughs, floor lamps, fishing lamps, table lamps, wall lamps, etc. that many people care about, they can of course be added appropriately. For example, if the living room has enough space, a fishing lamp behind the sofa or a floor lamp where necessary will enhance the atmosphere. If there is enough space in the restaurant, a neat, tall and thin floor lamp can also be placed in the corner, which also has the beauty of setting off the atmosphere. In fact, the atmospheric and concise ceiling light in the living room is enough to hold most styles. In the bedroom, the wall lamp can often give people a comforting but not disturbing sense of warmth in the middle of the night. In the study room, a dimmable table lamp can be selected, which can be used for reading and energy saving. All in all, the lights are not many, refined, simple, suitable, and just right. Believe me, in places other than the guest restaurant, you rarely notice their presence-as long as they are not bad. So don't be too fancy, and don't spend money on lamps. It’s more cost-effective to spend money on facilities and equipment that you often have direct contact with. The decoration is a bottomless pit. There are still many places where you should spend money. Don't throw your head up and take a look at it for half your life, and you still don't know how to look at their ceiling luminous objects.
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