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1. I searched for a house and a designer intermittently for nearly a year before I found this 24-square-meter middle-aged house, with an age of 19. Because spending money is a lifetime savings, buying a house and decorating it is basically something you can't regret, so you have been climbing. At that time, 0 1 was the website I visited most often. Later, I learned about it. With the addition of App, APP became a network platform that I read on the home page of my mobile phone every day, and also let me know my favorite style.
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I found two or three favorite design companies from the APP. After I contacted them, either the construction progress couldn't match, or the other party's proposal didn't meet our expectations. It's fate to meet the wide elephant design!
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Second, the layout plan will choose old houses instead of new houses, mainly considering our budget. The proportion of new houses and public rental housing is high, and the burden is still too great. We would rather keep more decoration expenses than spend all our money on house prices. The advantage of this house is that it has only experienced the previous owner, with little internal transformation and a clean and refreshing pattern.
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Let me show you the pattern before the decoration:
After the renovation, it is like this:
Our daughter is still young and plans to add another baby in the future, so my wife and I have the following ideas about home:
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Demand 1. The kitchen wants to be open and can take care of the children while cooking.
Originally the kitchen was closed ~ there was only a straight countertop. After deducting the sink and gas stove, there is only a 30 cm cooking table, which is really not enough. When my wife and I were surfing, we saw that Japanese families would move the platform behind the sofa, so that we could pay attention to family activities and watch TV while cooking. This configuration is really good!
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Demand 2. The sink, toilet area and shower area are independent.
In fact, I have seen other houses in the same community. Someone made it into a three-bedroom 1.5 bathroom. It looks very convenient, but in fact, a lot of dung pipes are buried, and the floor frame is high and the space is very oppressive. So we chose an independent design that can wash hands, toilets and showers. A family of three uses it at the same time without fighting ~ at first we wanted to move the sink out, but later the designer helped us design it like this, which was even better than I expected!
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Demand 3. The porch function is better.
There are many articles about the entrance on the Internet. When decorating, we also hope that the entrance will accommodate more. But the designer told us that besides making cabinets, the porch should not be too small in the hinterland, so that everyone would not squeeze here to take off their shoes. So the pattern was adjusted later.
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Demand 4. Japanese minimalist style
At first, I liked only white and wooden decoration, but later I slowly revised our ideas in the process. Dead space is not suitable for us. Now our family is a little different from the original Japanese simplicity. It should be a mix and match ~ but our whole family is very happy! ! !
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In fact, we are lucky that although the house is 19 years old, there is only one owner in the middle, and most of them have maintained the original design of the builder without much change. Please invite the design team to check and replace water, electricity and pipes. No way ~ the house has lived for a long time, and the invisible foundation works are much more important than the visible decoration!
Fourth, the finished Mito was finally written as the finished Mito! Every time I watch someone unpack, it's quick. It's my turn to take notes, and I'm still very tired (laughs) ~
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porch
There are cabinets on the partition wall and side between the porch and the kitchen, which has sufficient storage capacity. So there is a chair with shoes on the other side, and the extended area is the activity space of the whole family. We made a climbing wall, which can exercise children's physical strength, and then change it into a hole-and-hole board wall when the children are older.
Entrance, dining room, kitchen
The space is not big, one photo can explain three areas! The kitchen and dining room are separated by cooking countertops and glass windows, and the top can be opened and closed, so there will be no oil and gas diffusion during cooking. You can also observe every move of the living room while cooking.
ceiling
I have lived in too many houses with ceilings and bottom lines, and I feel too stressed, so I gave up flowers and trees and made the pipeline white, which made the space look very wide and saved a lot of money.
living room
Extending from the kitchen area is the living room, where smallpox can hardly be saved. There is also a couch by the window. Although this area is full of explosive baby products now, as long as it is cleaned up, the living room space can be expanded and become a part of the sofa when guests come.
Kitchen aisle
We occasionally have a drink, so we put a red wine cabinet in the dining area.
Master BedRoom
Our master bedroom has two sides of lighting, and the designer made a dressing room where the wardrobe was originally placed, which has a larger storage capacity and can also put suitcases and large electrical appliances.
The second lie
We have two bedrooms. This room is used as a guest room, and the other room is not decorated much. Now that the child is still young, I have plans to add another child in the future. The decoration of the children's room will be preserved first, and then flexible equipment such as bunk beds and movable beds will be started as needed.
bathroom
When I was climbing the article, I saw the design of the washbasin set outside, which was very good, but the designer helped me connect the washbasin, bathroom and shower room together, so that I could have the same damp-proof floor tiles, which not only made better use of the space, but also made it easier to clean.
What do you think of staying?
I used to crawl forward, but now it's my turn to surface and share the experiences of people who have experienced it! I must say that when looking for a designer, besides looking at the style and price, making an appointment in advance (avoiding the project and check-in time), the most important thing is mutual values and tacit communication. After all, designers are much more experienced than homeowners, and sometimes homeowners' insistence is not necessarily correct. Only through repeated communication and clear thinking can we know what we really want!
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It's been half a year since I moved in. Think about our cooperation with Kuanxiang this time. Every time I put forward my own ideas, designers will listen carefully, evaluate and even optimize my ideas! Just like the kitchen, I only expected to be open at first, but in the end, the "semi-open" design expanded its functions and better met my needs. It can only be said that every step of buying a house is a difficult test, and from the point of view of the degree that our family likes it, it is also a good report card!
Thank you for your patience in reading this unpacking.