Usually the first step of decoration is to measure the room. What's the use of decorating the room?

After getting the key to their house, many owners will consider decoration, and decoration will naturally think of decoration companies. So, are some companies' free decoration activities really useful? Here, the author takes this question to explain those things about measuring the house!

The simple understanding of measuring a room is to measure the length, width and height of each area in the house, which is used to draw CAD plans and renderings, and is an essential step in interior design. For ordinary people, measuring the room seems complicated, but in fact, measuring the room is one of the simplest tasks in the whole decoration process.

Tip: When taking pictures, try to enlarge the apartment on paper. Pencil is used because you can modify the places with different lengths at any time. Then, from the entrance door, measure the width along the wall in turn with a tape measure and record it on the floor plan just drawn.

Tip: It is best for two people to cooperate, one to measure the size, the other to record the data, measure along the wall in turn, and finally return to the place where the measurement was just started.

It should be noted that the measurement data should be accurate to millimeters, and try to draw angles. At the same time, the required measurements include: space height, window height, lintel height (lintel is drawn by dotted line), and finally mark the position of distribution box and sewer pipe to obtain a data diagram similar to the following figure.

For decoration companies, measuring the house is the lowest cost but the most important part of commercial means. Because its workload is not large, it attracts owners on the grounds of free measurement of housing design, thus winning the contract; For the owner, measuring the house does not mean that you must sign a bill with the measuring house company. Therefore, it is wise to find a number of decoration companies, measure the house and give the corresponding design scheme, and choose the bill that conforms to your own concept from many companies.

Measuring the house by yourself, drawing the floor plan and calculating the corresponding area are of great reference value for early negotiation, quotation analysis and material consumption. The amount of "partial" items in the quotation is measured by area. At this time, if you know what you are doing, you will take the initiative to control difficult things and the price will become reasonable.