She wanted to build a fireplace in the living room where the TV should be placed. There was no heating here, so she could use the fireplace to keep warm in the winter.

This is what she wants most.

Then make the two kitchen windows smaller. You don’t have to do much, just replace the frame and reinstall the glass.

In the living room, she planned to open the windows a little wider.

The same goes for the bedroom upstairs. Make the window a little bigger so that the room looks brighter.

The bathroom on the first floor only needs an ordinary washbasin and a toilet.

The bathroom on the second floor is going to be a bathtub.

So she needs to find a good plasterer, lay it with bricks, and then tile the outside.

The first floor floor is made of terrazzo, the kind that is polished very smooth.

The second floor bedrooms have wooden flooring.

When Yinghan thought of wooden floors, he became worried, as it seemed that there were no wooden floors yet.

Forget it, let’s not think about this for now.

Ying Han first drew a detailed picture of the fireplace on the TV wall.

Before she came here, she had designed a fireplace for a client. Although she hadn't touched it much in the past two years, she still remembered it because she was skilled in the business.

That night, it was not until one o'clock in the morning that Ying Han put down her pen and finished designing her little house.

The next day, she was worried and didn't know who to find to help her decorate the house.

Walking around the streets early in the morning, I only saw some workers building residential buildings, but they were all from the units.

It was difficult for her to find odd jobs, and she didn't know what kind of people the companies in the city were looking for to build houses.

Ying Han walked around from around seven to around ten o'clock, and finally saw a construction team near a house.

Ying Han hesitated for a while, and when she saw a strong man pulling cement coming over, she took the opportunity to go up and ask, "Comrade, do you do other work? My house needs renovation."

The man was stunned for a moment, then asked, "Are you planning to build a house?"

"No, no, my house is old. I plan to repaint the walls and build some small structures."

The man frowned and hesitated, then said, "Wait a moment."

After saying that, he turned and ran away, and after a while, he came back with an old man.

"Dad, go and take a look with her first."

"Okay. Comrade, what's your name?"

"Surname Ying, should."

"My surname is Han, and everyone around me calls me Master Han."

"Master Han, my home is quite far from here, next to the family compound of the shoe factory."

Ying Han didn't ride a bike, so the two of them agreed to meet at the gate of the shoe factory's staff quarters.

Ying Han took the bus, but he didn't expect it to be faster than Comrade Han's bicycle.

"Master Han, this is the house." Ying Han took Old Man Han in and showed him the house.

I expressed my opinion: "I want to scrape off the plaster inside and repaint. I want to build a fireplace here, widen the doorway connecting the kitchen and living room, enlarge the windows in the living room and upstairs, tear down the staircase and build a new one, build cabinets in the kitchen, and put a bathtub in the upstairs bathroom."

Ying Han talked a lot, and Old Han also noticed the change. He frowned and said, "Young comrade, the window you opened doesn't keep out the wind in winter. Also, is the door located on a load-bearing wall? And what does that fireplace look like? I've never seen it before."

Ying Han smiled and said, "I've analyzed all of this in the early stages. Can Master Han read blueprints?"

Old Han laughed and said, "You know what? Before I retired, I was a member of the Urban Construction Team."

Ying Han was delighted when she said that. He took out the blueprint from his pocket and gave it to him. "This is the blueprint I drew. Take a look."

The room had been cleared out and there was nothing to do. Old Han first stood there and took a rough look. As he looked, he became fascinated.

He went straight out and squatted on the edge of the door. He smiled and said to Ying Han, "Comrade Ying's drawings are very good. The dimensions are clearly marked. They are not inferior to the designers of our urban construction team. What does Comrade Ying do?"

"I'm a student, and my major is architecture."

"Oh, you're a good student. My son also took the college entrance exam this year. I asked him to take the architecture exam, but he refused and insisted on taking the normal school exam to become a teacher. He said the construction site was too tiring and he didn't want to go. He didn't want to be like me, exposed to the wind and rain for the rest of my life. You don't know how mad I was at that time..."

The two chatted for a while and then got back to the topic. Old Man Han gave Ying Han a rough estimate that the renovation would cost about two hundred yuan.

You have to buy the necessary materials yourself.

Ying Han agreed and gave Old Man Han a water and electricity diagram first.

Old Man Han didn't ask Ying Han for money first. After he returned in the afternoon, he brought two people over.

I started to help Yinghan remove the old and moldy wall dust.

Then the old doors and windows were removed.

Ying Han went to a place selling building materials in the afternoon.

Master Han told him that the area around the Second Ring Road had the most complete range of building materials, and the railway tracks passed not far from the market. There were rows of tiled houses on the open land, with various signs on them.

Putty, white lime, pipes and wires, toilets, sinks and the like are all points set up here by various manufacturers.

Ying Han walked around inside and told the salesperson that he needed water and electricity for his home.

The salesperson introduced several models to her. Ying Han bought the best one, which would be fine for her refrigerator and other home appliances.

"Comrade, don't you have any pipes for running the wires?"

"Conduit for running wires? What kind of conduit do you need to run wires?"

Ying Han then remembered that at this time, everyone in the family was following the rules.

Ying Han took a look inside and saw a relatively thin water pipe. He asked, "Comrade, how much is this?"

"Two cents a meter."

"Can you deliver the goods if you give me 500 meters?"

"Comrade, you want so much? Our factory can deliver it, but it will take until tomorrow."

Ying Han selected a few more sockets from him, and then went to take a look at the toilet.

It turned out that most of the toilets were squat toilets, and the only sit-down toilet was placed in the most conspicuous position in the store.

The salesperson said this was their new product, and it would be so exciting to sit on it directly.

Ying Han smiled and thought to himself that the salesperson was exaggerating and he probably had never used it himself.

When I asked, I found out they were twenty yuan each.

To be honest, she really didn't like this ceramic toilet, but there was nothing she could do, this was already the best.

Ying Han bargained with the seller and finally bought two for thirty-eight yuan.

Let her deliver the goods to the first store together.

I went to the cement and sand store and asked for more than 30 bags of sand, 20 bags of cement, and bricks, which cost me 200 yuan.

I can’t buy the tiles today, I’ll take my time looking for them later.

The next morning, Ying Han went to the house. She thought she had arrived early enough, but she didn't expect that Old Han had arrived even earlier.

It looks like they have been working on it for a while. They just started yesterday afternoon and it is almost finished today.

At around nine o'clock, the things she bought yesterday were delivered.

Putty, whitewash, pipes, wires, toilets, and latches.

After more than ten minutes, the cement and sand arrived.