First, don't save time in the decoration of working families. Many working-class people try their best to save money. But sometimes they fail to get to the point, which adds a lot of trouble to the future. Experts believe that the following three aspects are hopeless. 1, it is cheap to buy wires and water pipes. In the whole family decoration, wires and water pipes are essential expenses. Some working-class people also have the idea of saving on these necessary expenses, and often only pay attention to price, not quality. This is a major mistake. If the quality of wires and water pipes is not up to standard, it will bring great security risks after transformation. Therefore, even wage earners should not lower their standards when buying wires and water pipes, but buy high-quality wires and water pipes. 2. The fewer power plugs, the better. Based on the concept of saving money, many working families will save money from small places when decorating. In these small places, the power plug is a project. Some families think that while saving a plug, they also save some wires, killing two birds with one stone. Why not? Therefore, while considering the current household appliances, they try to save the number of power plugs installed, which is wrong. With the development of modernization, there are more and more household appliances. Once you have a new appliance without a socket, it is difficult to install it again. In addition, when electrical equipment uses power plugs, there are few plugs and several electrical appliances are used together, which is easy to cause accidents. The correct way is to install power plugs reasonably according to the housing area, the design of professional electricians and the reality of household appliances, and reserve some spare plugs to facilitate expansion. The floor tiles are too low. In order to save money, many wage earners are unwilling to spend a lot of money to buy high-quality floor tiles. In fact, this is a big misunderstanding. Floor tiles wear easily. If it's too cheap, you won't wear it. After a long time, there will be quality problems, which are difficult to remedy. In addition, the floor tiles that are too cheap are not anti-slip, which is easy to cause accidental injuries, and finally the loss outweighs the gain. So don't be greedy for cheap when buying floor tiles, at least buy mid-range ones. Second, it is clear that family decoration and house purchase are family investments, but the costs are different. There is a "spectrum" of how much to spend on buying a house, but there is no fixed "spectrum" of family decoration in terms of decoration grade, style, materials and labor. In this way, residents are at a loss about the unreasonable price of the decoration company. How much does it cost to decorate the house? For families preparing for decoration, it is understandable to be comfortable, but the decoration involves how much money you invest and what effect the decoration achieves. Generally speaking, according to the needs of different households and different tastes, it can be decorated into economical, practical, spacious and luxurious, and high-grade luxury. Every grade of decoration needs investment, and the amount of investment between grades varies greatly. This requires families to decorate according to their own economic situation. 1, simple decoration. The floor of bedroom, living room and balcony is made of common floor tiles, the wall surface and top surface are made of domestic latex paint, the kitchen and bathroom are made of domestic wall surfaces, floor tiles and aluminum gusset ceilings, and the corner of bedroom and living room is plastered. One-bedroom to three-bedroom is about 6.5438+0.5 million yuan to about 30,000 yuan, and the average use area is about 350 yuan per square meter. 2. Complex decoration. The bedroom uses imported composite wood flooring or domestic solid wood flooring, and the living room uses joint venture floor tiles. The walls and roofs are made of the most advanced paints. Other materials are upgraded one level in turn, so it costs about 25,000 to 50,000 yuan for a one-bedroom to three-bedroom apartment, with an average 500 yuan per square meter. 3. Luxury decoration. The bedroom and living room use wooden floors, and the choice of other materials is even higher. Imported raw materials can already be used in some places, so a one-bedroom to three-bedroom apartment costs about 35,000 to 6,543,800 yuan, with an average of 700 to 6,543,800 yuan per square meter. The above prices are only decoration prices, not including decoration prices. Sometimes, according to the requirements of residents or the ideas of designers, some decoration contents are added, and others are also entrusted to design. The design fee generally accounts for 5%- 10% of the whole decoration fee. Third, reasonably estimate the amount of materials. Whether you buy it yourself or entrust a decoration company to buy it, you must have a "spectrum" of the number of materials used in home decoration, so that you will not spend "money". How to estimate decoration materials reasonably? 1, floor tile quantity. For example, the floor tile size is 30,5cm× 30,5cm, that is, each floor of 1 square meter needs about 10 floor tile, and then multiplied by the square meter of the room, that is, the number of blocks used. Because the edge of the floor often needs to be spliced with cut tiles, it is best to draw a sketch according to the floor size of the room, and at the same time determine how many deep and shallow tiles are used, and accurately calculate how many whole tiles are used. There are many kinds of adhesives for floor tiles, most of which can be used for rubber and plastic bonding. At present, there are 40 1 glue, 4 1 16 glue, floor glue and other common varieties on the market. Generally 1 kg can be pasted with 4-6 square meters of floor tiles. If the dosage is too much, the glue will be easily squeezed out from the cracks in the floor, which will pollute the ground in the future and make it difficult to clean it. If the glue is used less, the floor tiles will fall to the ground when they dry. 2. The number of wallpaper or wall coverings. After the variety of wallpaper or wall cloth is determined, the size of the material can be reasonably calculated according to the size of the living room. Considering the possible loss during construction, we can buy about 10% more than the actual consumption. There are two ways to calculate wallpaper or wall coverage. One is a rough calculation, that is, multiply the area of the room by 2 plus 5, which is the amount of materials used to paste the wall. Another method is field measurement, which is more accurate. First, you should know the width of the wallpaper or wall covering you want, and then measure the perimeter of the room wall (excluding doors, windows, etc. ) according to this width. There are several wallpapers or the width of wall covering around, that is, you need to stick a few, and then measure the length (meters) of the wallpaper or wall covering. Finally, this method is still used to measure the length of the required materials such as the wall under the window and the irregular corner. , and add it to the calculated length, which is the total length. This method is more suitable for finely divided patterns and splicing without specially aligned wallpaper or wall covering. 3, the amount of paint. With the improvement of housing conditions, many families brush a layer of colored paint on the white powder wall. Before painting, you should estimate the paint you need, otherwise there will be more waste and less shortage, and the color will be difficult to be consistent after adding water. This paper introduces a simple calculation method. The room area is divided by 4, and the wall height to be painted is multiplied by 10 and then divided by 4. The sum of these two figures is the kilograms of paint needed. For example, a room with an area of 20 square meters and a wall height of 1 6 meters (excluding the dado of 1 2 meters) is (20 ÷ 4)+(65433). Fourth, blocking the "black hole" of cutting corners Take a project with a total renovation amount of 50,000 yuan as an example, there are many projects that can cut corners: 1, bricklayer: a, buying unqualified inferior cement per bag can save about 5 yuan, and * * * can save about 100-200 yuan; B, buy substandard inferior tiles, each can save 0, 1- 1, more than 0 yuan, this piece can save about 900 yuan; C, tile cement is empty, which can save about 150—250 yuan. 2, metalworking: A, use low-standard materials, which can save about 400 yuan; B, fewer solder joints and less polishing, saving artificial 200 yuan. 3. Electrician: A. Use inferior wires, or save 100—200 yuan. B, no protective tube, can save material 50- 100 yuan, save labor costs about 100-200 yuan. 4. Woodworking: A. Buy substandard and inferior boards. Take a piece of 9 cm plywood as an example. The market price of imported plates is 75-80 yuan/block, while some domestic products are only 55-60 yuan/block, and the price difference is 20 yuan/block. Take an 80-square-meter room as an example. A 9-cm room costs about 50 yuan, which can save 1 1,000 yuan. B, the use of inferior panels or in the case that the owner is unfamiliar with the materials and there is no clear agreement in the terms of the contract, this item can save 400 yuan; C, using inferior wood floors can save about 1500-2000 yuan; D, quickly laying the floor, can save money about 500 yuan. 5. Painter: A. Using fake latex paint (recently it is rumored that latex paint poisoning is this kind of Jerry-building behavior) can save about 500 yuan. B, reducing the number of times can save about 500- 1000 yuan. C, using inferior varnish can also save a lot, about 200 yuan.