Recently, Ms. Xiao met a home improvement designer whom she called "the best". According to her description, in addition to calculating the price and fooling materials, designers hardly consider the life and habits at home, and even the common sense of basic materials that ordinary consumers know means "I haven't heard of it, I don't know". Therefore, she even suspected that the designer had never done this at all. Ms. Xiao told this little story before her renovation with anger and laughter, hoping to remind everyone that you must communicate with the designer more before signing the bill, and master some basic knowledge yourself before communication. Don't go astray.
According to insiders, decoration is a complicated matter. For ordinary consumers, even if they can do their homework before the decoration, there are still many ambiguities in the construction. Therefore, a professional designer and a professional construction team are particularly important for every decoration family.
Let's listen to Ms. Xiao's experience and appreciate this "best" designer.
Don't talk about price, just talk about style; Don't understand the material will only fool; Aims absently at private work; Changed the name of the decoration bag.
Ms. Xiao said that before the renovation, she consulted many decoration companies, and the primary purpose was to understand the overall quotation and see which one was more suitable. But when she consulted in a home improvement company with a foreign background, she was even more confused. Ms. Xiao said that because the home improvement company advertised "finished home improvement", she thought that the home improvement company could provide N kinds of model rooms with different areas and different functional spaces for her to choose from, and then, just like ordering food, she could get the overall decoration price by summarizing the selected spaces at the established price.
But in fact, Ms. Xiao, the decoration company, was told after seeing several sets of model rooms. Although each set of model rooms was marked with a clear list of configurations and prices, it was only to remind consumers. The real quotation is obtained by multiplying the area of the renovated house by the unit base, and does not include many quotations for concealed works. The so-called finished home improvement is a home improvement package with a different name.
In addition, the designer also told Ms. Xiao that the configuration list of the model room can only be used to explain the decoration of the model room. Even if the design is exactly the same as the model house, the difference in actual area and housing condition will also bring about the change of quotation. In this way, the so-called finished home improvement is actually only a semi-finished product.
As far as the matter is concerned, I don't know how much the floor plan is.
Since the home improvement company said that it was about 20% cheaper than other companies, Ms. Xiao decided to know more about it and see if she could save so much. As a result, when she gave her floor plan to the designer, the designer did not calculate the overall price of the house decoration for Ms. Xiao as expected, but asked Ms. Xiao after thinking for a long time: "Do you want to design a shoe cabinet at your door?"
The designer's explanation is that the decoration style is more important than anything else. I can't give you an offer until you determine the style, just as you can't calculate how much you have to spend on furniture if you are not sure whether to put a shoe cabinet at the door.
When Ms. Xiao said that it is not necessary to calculate the quotation so carefully, just calculate the price of the basic decoration first, the designer came up with the concept of "finished home improvement", saying that the home improvement package includes all materials and expenses, and then said that each space package contains different things, including the lights in the bathroom and the lights in the living room, which should be bought separately. In the end, Ms. Xiao didn't figure out how much it would cost to decorate if she chose this company. She realized that it was cheaper than a company's decoration package.
Use professional identity to fool around in order to promote their products.
Ms. Xiao told the designer that she wanted to customize a cloakroom, because she was decorating the house for her parents, so she was very picky about the environmental performance of the materials. I don't know what materials are used by the home improvement company. The designer said that the company has a special material partner, which is a domestic brand of environmental protection materials. Don't worry. However, Ms. Xiao said after listening that she had only heard of the domestic Daya board and Lushuihe board, but she didn't know the brand that the designer said. And in contrast, Ms. Xiao prefers to use imported plates, so she asked the designer whether the home improvement company had imported Iger plates from Germany.
But the designer told Ms. Xiao that she had been a designer for six years, had never used a board, and had never heard of this brand. She also suggested that Ms. Xiao should not blindly listen to the marketing. In this regard, Ms. Xiao expressed helplessness. I don't know if the designer really doesn't understand the plate, or jump to conclusions to promote her company's products.
Accept private jobs with "all-round" workers
Ms. Xiao said that although the designer she communicated with didn't look very professional, she was still very excited when the home improvement company looked at the model room. There are indeed several good model rooms that she feels can be used for reference. So, Ms. Xiao asked the designer if their company would do local decoration. The designer told Ms. Xiao, "Our company doesn't do local decoration, but I have many skilled workers. If you let me do the decoration design of your home, we will be friends. If necessary, we can send workers to the local decoration site at any time. A bathroom of three or four square meters can be done by one or two workers. "
When Ms. Xiao asked whether the bathroom decoration involved a wide range and whether a more professional team was needed, the designer bluntly said, "The skilled workers have done everything, and there is no problem at all. Moreover, I will find familiar workers to help you, and they will do it seriously. "