Don’t overspend your decoration budget, please keep these four points in mind

Novices who are decorating for the first time often don't know where to start budgeting. They have no idea about the expenses they will face during decoration, and they are also worried about overspending on the decoration budget. Today, Lori editor is going to tell you, if you want to not overspend on budget, These four points must be kept in mind

List the needs of the whole family in detail

When planning the budget, we must first understand all the needs of the people who will live in this house, from how many people will live there, whether the house is planned to be rented out or sold in the future, everyone's ideal lifestyle, favorite building materials and furniture, original old items, etc., all should be listed one by one, so that it is convenient to clearly express the needs when communicating with the designer, because sometimes the budget is increased not because the design company wants to cheat you, but because they suddenly realized that a cabinet is missing during the project!

Clearly grasp the project and material market conditions, and understand the estimate sheet

Generally, it costs about US$20 to US$200 per square foot for a designer to decorate a new house, and more than US$50 to US$300 for a medieval or old house. However, this is only an approximate cost. The most important thing to keep within your budget is the cost of each item. You know everything clearly, so you must further understand the market and prices of the project and materials so that you can fully grasp the budget, so as not to keep increasing the amount during the construction and being unable to turn back

"You can do it without doing it" decorating adjustments when budget goes over budget

After making an estimate, if you find that the budget is exceeded and you want to cut it, you can divide the design and decoration into three parts: "must do" "flexible implementation" and "optional" For example, most water and electricity pipes that are more than 15 years old need to be re-piped, and the kitchen and bathroom waterproofing must also be confirmed and reinforced. These are must-dos; while the ceiling design, wooden cabinets and other surface decorations can be increased or decreased according to the budget. If you are not well-off, you can do partial decoration in stages

Leave an extra 10% to 20% decoration reserve fund just in case

Even if the estimate is detailed, if the decoration budget is too tight, it is still easy to miscalculate the situation, and the budget may be overspent due to on-site modifications, replacement of building materials, or seeing a piece of dream furniture. Therefore, it is recommended to reserve 10%~20% of the reserve fund just in case. That is, if you have 2 million decoration expenses, please pretend that you only have 1.6 million. This will avoid most of the risks of overspending