With the improvement of people's living standards and value cognition, it is already a very common way of decoration to ask designers to make a plan first. As the so-called "professional things are handed over to professional people", decoration design is exactly what designers are good at. Today, I will talk about my interest in "Decoration should I ask a designer to design it?" "The view of this problem, because the design cost is often thousands of dollars, the cost is not small, so my article is also written more comprehensively and meticulously, it takes about 20 minutes to read, but after reading it will definitely make you have a deeper understanding of the designer."
1. Do you want to hire a designer for decoration?
(1) Look at the design requirements
Different people's requirements for decoration are different, if you have high requirements for design, and hope to decorate your home more practically and beautifully, then it is still necessary to ask a designer. For example, in terms of practicality, designers can give you a better solution from the aspects of space planning, storage and storage, loose circulation, and comfortable materials; in terms of aesthetics, designers will make your home more beautiful and generous through hard decoration, color, lighting and home soft decoration.
(2) Look at the demand for transformation
Like the old houses in Guangzhou, the apartment design is unreasonable, and it is extremely uncomfortable to live in. Therefore, many people buy old houses, thinking of renovating the apartment type. In terms of apartment renovation optimization, professional designers will definitely give you unimaginable solutions. For example, I met a customer in Guangzhou before, bought a second house and wanted to change to a third house, his family type is as follows:
▲Apartment type analysis, there are 5 problems to be solved.
Then the client's own design ideas are as follows:
▲ According to the customer's own ideas, the guest dining room has become a dark room, and the furniture in the living room and dining room is not easy to arrange.
In the end, we give the following solution:
▲ Realize the transformation of two rooms into three rooms, solve the hard injury of the apartment type, and also re-plan the pattern between the guest house, solve the embarrassment of the entrance, and at the same time greatly improve the lighting and ventilation problems with the indoor window and fresh air system, and the bathroom is also a four-separate design, separating the toilet, wash basin, laundry area, and shower area, avoiding the situation of one person going to the toilet in the morning and the whole family queuing up.
(3) Look at the decoration budget
The decoration budget is actually a bottomless pit, the same 100 square meters of houses, some people can carry a bag to move in for 50,000, while some people 200,000 are just a bottom. For the decoration budget is too low, if you want 50,000 bags, there is really no need to waste thousands of dollars to ask the designer. Usually the decoration half package budget is about 1000 yuan / flat, if you want to decorate the effect of more than mid-range, it is recommended to take a little budget to ask the designer, really value for money.
▲The cost of asking a designer is great value for money.
2, spend money on designers 6 benefits
(1) Style collocation
Designers can design renderings, so that you can see the general effect of the decoration in advance, if you don't like it, you can directly let the designer change the plan. But if you don't ask the designer, the decoration comes out to know that you don't like it, and if you want to change it, the cost of redecoration will be large!
▲ Great value for money 1: There is a design plan to avoid the decoration effect is not liked, and the redecoration wastes money.
Including buying furniture, lamps and lanterns, the designer will give you more professional advice, to avoid the wrong style you bought, the installation effect is not good. Then change the style and waste money.
▲Great value for money 2: Avoid buying the wrong furniture and other lamps, wasting money.
(2) Apartment type transformation
After you have explained the living situation and design needs or written a "design entrustment letter" to the designer, the designer will make a more reasonable allocation and transformation of the apartment type according to the situation of your home, so that the house becomes more suitable for your family to live.
▲Great value for money 3: Reasonable apartment type and comfortable stay.
(3) Material selection and control
Professional designers, in addition to renderings, will also give you a "main material list table", which will record in detail the main materials used in your home design plan, such as the color and size of the tile, the texture color of the wooden floor, the pattern of the wallpaper wall, the color of the wall paint, etc.
▲ "Main Material List Table" schematic.
Then when you go to the material market to buy materials, you can choose materials against the picture, don't worry about the wrong style of the materials you bought back, and then decorate the effect of "East Effect". If you are a designer in the same location, you can also invite the designer to go to the material market with you to select materials.
▲Great value for money 4: The selection of materials is worry-free and error-free.
(4) Construction control
With the designer's detailed design plan, every floor, every wall, and every ceiling shape in your home decoration will have construction drawings, and the size, materials and processes in all places are clear.
▲Construction drawings of the TV wall.
Because the construction drawings have detailed materials, sizes and processes, when looking for a decoration company or construction team to quote, it is easier to find if there is catty, refuse to steal items, and eliminate the decoration company that plays a routine.
▲ Great value for money 5: Reject the offer routine of the decoration company.
Then the designer has more experience on the site, more familiar materials and processes, and when the construction encounters problems, the designer will have more solution references.
One of my daily tasks: explaining the construction plan to the renovation workers.
(5) The details are more comprehensive
Designers are very familiar with the height, width and other dimensions of furniture, cabinets, toilets, etc., when designing and arranging these furniture, they will comprehensively consider the adjacent furniture, sockets, door opening ranges and other factors, to avoid decoration only to find: toilet doors are covered by toilets, sockets are blocked by furniture, etc. For example, the now popular smart toilet, you need to leave an outlet next to the toilet, but the bathroom area is small, when leaving an outlet, you must fully consider the position relationship between the socket and the toilet to avoid the toilet blocking the socket.
▲ Great value for money 6: The details are taken into account, and the socket is not blocked.
(6) The same budget, please designer effect better
The same decoration budget of 200,000, did not ask the designer to buy randomly the effect is poor, please the designer reasonable collocation effect is better. Because the designer has a more comprehensive knowledge of the process and materials, he can make a better match according to your budget needs; if you do not ask the designer, you have no experience, and you can only choose in your own limited cognition.
▲ Great value for money 7: Designers are more familiar with the process and materials, the same price, will give you more options to choose from.
For example, I had a customer before, before looking for my designer, he has been planning to buy cabinet air conditioning, and then the communication found that his living room is small, and it is a waste of space to put a cabinet machine, I suggested that he change to a duct machine with a considerable price, after some understanding, he knew that the original same price, there is such a good choice, he even sighed that it was fortunate to find me to design.
▲The cost of the duct machine is similar to that of the cabinet air conditioner, but the effect is better.
As an internet celebrity designer, I met many fans who were halfway through the decoration, and when there was a problem, I added my friends to ask "How to deal with the fact that this background wall in my home feels ugly?" "What should I do if the color of my sofa feels awkward?" "What do I have to do with this ceiling to look good?" For this kind of problem, if it is hard to install, I recommend "bear with it (endure to stay)", after all, it took hundreds of thousands of decorations, hard decoration is immutable, and it can't just be decorated to smash the reload!? If it is a soft decoration, such as the wrong sofa style, you can also spend some money to replace it.
▲ The sofa style is not good and can be changed, but it is difficult to change if you don't like it.
In fact, if they have a designer for decoration, they will not encounter such a situation of poor efficiency and waste of money for furniture! So – if you have requirements for decoration, it's still necessary to ask a designer! Professional designers can give you a lot of practical reference opinions from the perspectives of style collocation, apartment transformation, material selection control, construction control, detail consideration, etc. Let you spend the same amount of money to design a better decoration effect.
Of course, the designers I mentioned above are generally professional designers of studios or design companies, and for the free design of decoration companies, I am afraid that they may not be so professional and dedicated.