Don't worry about decoration, a detailed guide to decorating the whole house

TechWong2021-08-31 15:30

It’s the golden September and silver October of the year again. This is the busiest time for home improvement. Today I’m going to give you a guide to decorating your entire house. Let’s take a look!

First of all, when decorating a house, we must not only determine the decoration style, but also the color matching is very important. Because improper color matching will affect the overall decoration effect, which is very embarrassing and causes unnecessary reinstallation or trouble.

If you are not very sensitive to color and are worried about the color matching effect, or if you pursue an elegant and high-end feel, then you can consider black, white and gray. A refreshing mint green drink is undoubtedly the best choice to cool down in the summer.

This renovation guide is divided into 2 parts.
Part 1: How to decorate a new house?
The second part is how to renovate an old house and make it look nice and practical. The key is how to save money?

Let’s talk about the first part first, about the decoration of the new house!

1. How should the living room be decorated?

The living room is a place we use frequently, so we should choose durable floor tiles. Floor tiles and flooring will inevitably have some scratches after being used for a long time, but the hardness of flooring is far inferior to that of floor tiles.

In addition, the living room should be the brightest room in the entire house. A bright living room requires the following two points:

First, the living room walls should not be painted in too dark tones.

Second, try to avoid placing too many dense potted plants or objects on the balcony to avoid blocking the light.

If you like brighter lamps and want to decorate your home as magnificently as a palace, it is recommended that you choose crystal lamps, ceiling lamps, feather lamps, etc.

Of course, you can also choose some simple and personalized lamps, such as downlights, spotlights, floor lamps, etc., and combine them to create a warm and natural effect.

Finally, your living room's decor should have its own unique character. Avoid cookie-cutter designs and incorporate unique touches. Typically, this individuality can be expressed through furniture, materials, accessories, and the TV wall. A combination of these elements can create a warm, gentle, and comfortable atmosphere, allowing you to unwind after a long day.

Detailed explanation of the living room decoration plan - how to match the living room curtains?

Whether you live in a villa or a cozy and comfortable studio apartment, different home environments require different curtain solutions . Generally speaking, the more upscale decoration styles include: Chinese style, American style, European style, light luxury style, etc. For example, in ordinary home decoration, for small apartments, if the curtains in the living room are too dark, it will appear depressing. Generally speaking, light colors are suitable.

Without further ado, I will share with you some warm and comfortable curtain matching plans.

1) IKEA-style living room

It is recommended to match it with gray, beige, and off-white curtains to create a modern and youthful look. For small apartments, too dark colors can easily appear depressing, so generally light colors are suitable.

2) American-style living room

It is recommended to choose curtains with patterns, which will look elegant and grand.

3) Japanese-style living room

It is recommended to choose light-colored curtains because living room furniture is usually a combination of wood and fabric.

4) Nordic style living room

It is recommended to use gray and white tones or fresher and more vibrant colors. By combining such curtains with a comfortable and exquisite space, the look and feel will appear more leisurely, comfortable and generous.

5) European-style living room

It is recommended to use dark colors. In addition, some reflective curtains are also suitable for European-style windows.

6) Modern minimalist living room

It is recommended to use solid colors as the main color and match it with a layer of gauze curtains to create a modern and youthful look.

4 major details plus points

1) Floral or patterned

In order to make the curtains have a more refined decorative effect, choosing some curtains with floral patterns or patterns will also make the space fuller.

2) Multi-color splicing

The use of multi-color splicing makes the space less boring and more lively as a whole. Because these high-end style elements in the interior are often darker in color, if all of them are the same dark tone, it will inevitably appear monotonous and depressing.

3) Dark and elegant

Generally speaking, monochrome curtains are usually matched with dark and elegant curtains. This will make them more harmonious and unified with the overall space and avoid too much visual color difference.

4) Curtains + curtain head

Curtain valances mainly appear in some European and American styles. Their unique and elegant lines will make the space look more layered, magnificent and upscale.

The above six curtain matching schemes for mainstream decoration styles are just a starting point. After all, in actual decoration style, the curtains should be in the same style as the overall space. The shade of the curtains usually matches the color of the furniture. Just grasp this core principle.

2. How should a children’s room be decorated?

A well-designed children's room should allow for the child to rearrange the space at will, creating a space that is multifunctional and adaptable. Furniture and building materials should be durable, resilient, and highly usable. Furthermore, non-toxic and safe materials are preferred.

During the decoration process, newlyweds hope to create an exclusive growth space for their children, which should be full of care and childlike fun, practical enough, and able to protect the children's growth.

However, children's world is always imaginative and unrestrained. So how should we decorate it, or what should we pay attention to when decorating and designing?

1) Light

First of all, it is necessary to ensure appropriate and sufficient lighting, because this will make the room warm and safe, and help eliminate the child’s fear when being alone.

2) Decoration

When choosing decorations, it's recommended to use durable, easily repairable, and affordable materials. This creates a comfortable sleeping environment and relieves parents of safety concerns. Because children are highly mobile, soft, natural materials are preferred for children's rooms, such as carpet, wood, wall coverings, or plastic.

Remember one principle: too many decorations will affect the beauty and make the space look crowded.

3) Hue

The best color scheme for a child's room or furniture is bright, relaxing, and cheerful. In addition, it's best to use more contrasting colors.

4) Furniture

Choose furniture that's easy to move and highly modular, allowing them to easily adjust the space. Varying the color, pattern, or details of the furniture can help stimulate children's imagination. Furthermore, children's skin is delicate, and even minor bumps and scrapes can leave marks. When choosing furniture, avoid iron and metal products. Natural solid wood is best, and sharp corners should be rounded.

5) Wall

When painting the walls, you can designate a specific area for children to scribble on. This will facilitate targeted cleaning later. Children aged 4-6 love to scribble, especially on walls. If you choose wallpaper as a finishing material, it will likely become obsolete quickly. Choosing a paint that's easily scrubbable is also crucial.

6) Ground

Carpet is a good flooring material for children's rooms. Soft carpet can cushion and protect children from falls. Children love to run around and play, and falls are inevitable. Falling on hard, cold tile or marble surfaces can injure them.

7) Security

Finally, safety is also a key consideration when designing a children's room. Because children are active, curious, and prone to accidents, safety considerations can be crucial. For example, window guardrails can be installed, and furniture can be designed with rounded edges and free of sharp corners.

3. How should the kitchen be decorated?

The kitchen is a crucial area in the home environment and is also a slightly complex space with various electrical appliances, pots and pans, and also involves water and electricity usage.

Since the kitchen plays a big role in our daily life, how can we make our kitchen look good and practical?

For people who live at home, since they have to prepare three meals a day, having a well-decorated kitchen will make people feel relaxed and happy, so the status of the kitchen in the family is very important.

There are many things we need to pay attention to when decorating. So, how can we decorate the kitchen to make it beautiful and practical? Here I will share with you some key points that need to be paid attention to when decorating the kitchen.

1) About the floor

The kitchen floor is very important because it is a place where a lot of water is used and it is easy to get dirty during cooking.

When decorating, you need to pay attention to the following principles : the kitchen floor should not only be non-slip, but also dirt-resistant and easy to clean, and the joints between the tiles should be small to reduce the accumulation of dirt and facilitate cleaning.

2) About the wall

The kitchen walls need to be tiled, preferably up to the ceiling, as the kitchen produces a lot of fumes and tiles are easier to clean.

3) About lighting

To ensure that the kitchen looks clean and fresh, in addition to having good lighting, the lights at night must also be bright.

The decoration suggestion is that you must not use spotlights in the kitchen to avoid affecting the line of sight. It is best to install small lights under the wall cabinets to avoid blocking the light and making it difficult to see.

4) About the countertop

There are 2 points to note when decorating your kitchen countertop:

First, choose waterproof and fireproof materials, because water and fire are necessary and frequently used in the kitchen.

Second, the height of the countertop should also be designed reasonably, preferably based on the height of the person who cooks most often in the family.

If the height of the cabinets in your home is lower than 820mm, you may need to bend down when washing vegetables, which will make cooking very tiring, so it is recommended not to make it too low.

If your family members are tall, it is recommended to make 850-880mm. The height of this cabinet should be determined according to the height of your family members.

5) About storage

Storage is also an important factor that affects our cooking efficiency. If you put everything in the kitchen away, cooking will be smoother. There are also some tips on storage, mainly the following 4 points:

First, built-in appliances.

Some kitchen appliances can be embedded in cabinets, such as making a high cabinet and stacking ovens, steamers and other appliances together to save space.

Second, storage pull-out basket.

It is recommended to install more pull-out baskets in the cabinets! For example, the spice pull-out basket can store all the bottles and jars, making the countertop more tidy.

Third, storage accessories.

By installing some kitchen hanging accessories on the wall space of the kitchen, you can hang up small items such as shovels, rice spoons, soup spoons, etc., which makes it convenient for us to take them when we need them.

Fourth, drawer storage.

Drawer storage is also a good choice! When we open the drawer at first glance, we can find the kitchenware or items we want.

Detailed explanation of kitchen decoration plan - should I choose double sink or single sink for kitchen decoration?

When decorating the kitchen, many people will be confused about whether their sink should be single or double. Especially for newcomers who are decorating the kitchen for the first time, what suggestions can be given?

First of all, we need to understand what is the main difference between single slot and double slot?

1. What are the main differences between single-slot and double-slot?

1) Advantages of single slot

The same sink space can be made into a single sink, which has more space inside and is more convenient to wash dishes and pots.

For example, when washing vegetables, some of which are quite long, using a large single sink eliminates the need to break the long pieces before washing them. Also, when washing pots, a single sink is more convenient to use, as the lack of space will not reduce the experience of washing pots.

2) Advantages of dual slots

Washing the pot and vegetables or sorting and cleaning items at the same time can improve the efficiency of cooking. The double sink may have a lot of advantages in this regard.

For example, if you cook a lot of dishes at once, using a double sink can save a lot of time washing vegetables and pots. Also, you can use one sink to wash fruits and vegetables while washing pots and dishes, so that at least the side you wash vegetables on won't be greasy all the time.

In addition, if your home has a double sink, it would be more suitable to install a garbage disposal.

After introducing so much, you may say that I still haven't given a definite answer! Without knowing the size of your kitchen space, the size of the countertop, and your family's usage habits, it makes no sense for me to talk about double sinks or single sinks, or which one is better.

2. How to choose between single slot and double slot?

Purchase suggestions:

1) If you have plenty of countertop space, a large double sink is recommended! Just don't consider a small double sink, as it won't be very spacious.

2) The kitchen has ample space and can easily accommodate a large double sink.

3) When countertop space is limited, it is better to have a single item rather than a double item.

Because the countertop space itself is very small, the space available for the sink is even smaller. In addition, double sinks do not improve cooking efficiency, and may also reduce your user experience due to insufficient space for washing vegetables and pots.

4) For families installing dishwashers, consider a single-sink model.

With a dishwasher, the dishwashing task is basically done by the dishwasher. Even if you need to wash pots, it won't be too much.

4. How should the bathroom be decorated?

The bathroom is a particularly important area in the home environment, and there are many things to pay attention to. Sometimes the bathroom you buy has no windows. A bathroom without windows means insufficient light and poor ventilation. At the same time, it is humid and difficult to keep dry. Such a bathroom is called a dark bathroom.

For this problem, since we cannot change the house type, we can only work on the decoration.

When renovating a bathroom, two major issues need to be addressed: ventilation and lighting, and dry and wet area separation . Even if a dark bathroom is chosen out of necessity, the space can be improved through post-design. Installing a separate exhaust fan can help ventilate the bathroom and reduce odors. Furthermore, through post-design lighting arrangements and bathroom color selection, the lighting in the bathroom can be improved to achieve the best user experience. Finally, a dry and wet area separation design also makes bathroom use more convenient.

In order to avoid dissatisfaction after moving in, here are 7 major issues that must not be ignored when renovating the bathroom . When designing the bathroom, ventilation should be given priority!

1) Pay attention to ventilation

For a bathroom that is a long-term humid environment, ventilation is very important. If there is no fresh air entering, it is easy for bacteria to grow in the bathroom, causing the bathroom to be smelly and damp, and the air problem cannot be improved at all. Therefore, it is best to have ventilation in the bathroom, and exhaust fans are the main method of ventilation in the bathroom.

For dark bathrooms, low-power exhaust fans are not very effective in removing moisture. It is best to install high-power exhaust fans to better remove moisture and humidity from the bathroom.

Currently, household exhaust fans on the market come in three types: ceiling-mounted, wall-mounted, and window-mounted. Ceiling-mounted fans offer a more attractive appearance, but require shorter ducting, and require a matching ventilation duct. Wall-mounted fans are smaller and offer less ventilation, making them suitable for smaller bathrooms. Window-mounted fans both exhaust indoor air and draw in fresh air, offering greater ventilation.

2) Pay attention to the separation of dry and wet

Now more and more owners will choose to separate wet and dry areas when decorating their bathrooms, which is clean and convenient. Because they don’t want the entire bathroom to be in a humid environment all the time, the bathroom must be separated into wet and dry areas.

The actual operation of separating dry and wet areas is also very simple: just choose a piece of transparent glass to separate the dry and wet areas. If you find it troublesome, you can use a shower curtain instead.

3) Pay attention to the line direction

Bathroom plumbing and electrical work cannot be neglected. When renovating a bathroom, the routing of plumbing and electrical work is crucial. It's recommended to route them from the top surface , which not only reduces the risk of damage during construction, but also makes maintenance easier and more convenient.

Although the floor is convenient for wiring, it is not easy to maintain. If there is any problem with the water and electricity, the wall and floor will be damaged, and subsequent maintenance is very difficult.

4) Pay attention to storage

The storage problem of the bathroom is very important. Some daily toiletries, towels, etc. should not be left randomly. It is not only unhygienic but also easy to breed bacteria. Even if the overall space of the bathroom is small, the storage is neat and tidy, and the style is fresh, but it can diffuse a fresh atmosphere. Such humanized design is quite proud.

For small bathrooms, storage is the most prominent issue. The usual solution is to either use the wall space to complete the storage or to install two shelves.

5) Pay attention to floor drains

Bathrooms use a lot of water, so keeping water out of the floor prevents bacteria from growing. While bathroom floors need to have a certain inclination, the slope shouldn't be too steep.

It is recommended that the floor drain should be installed at the lowest point of the bathroom floor so that water can flow to the floor drain on its own.

In addition, floor drains are prone to odor. Do not choose ordinary water-sealed floor drains for dark bathrooms . After water is lost, it is easy to smell. Be sure to choose deep water-sealed odor-proof floor drains.

6) Pay attention to lighting

The bathroom is small and has no windows, so lighting is particularly important. It is best to design auxiliary lighting . Use hidden light strips, mirror lights and other auxiliary lights to create even light so that every corner is filled with light.

In addition to lights, you can also use reflective materials such as glass, tiles, and mirrors to better improve the lighting in the bathroom.

7) Pay attention to anti-slip

The bathroom is damp for a long time, and the floor is slippery, which makes it easy to slip. To prevent this from happening, the choice of floor tiles is very important. Choose those with shallow concave and convex shapes or matte surfaces, which will have a better anti-slip effect.

In addition, it is also possible to install anti-slip mats.

5. How to install moisture-proof and sound insulation?

Moisture-proofing and soundproofing are top priorities during renovations. Failure to do so can lead to problems like warping of wood, warping of floors, cracking of walls, and fogging of paint during the dry season.

This is why many people find that the balcony guardrail has turned black, the imported latex on some parts of the wall has turned black and shiny, and the nail marks on the floor, plywood veneer and door cover have become larger and darker after living in the house for less than half a year. In fact, these are all caused by moisture.