Chapter 131: It may be too early to take the lead now, but that day will come sooner or later...
After Da Wu learned about Xu Heye's idea, he quickly made a design drawing.
Xu Heye was a little surprised: "I didn't expect you could draw designs."
Da Wu laughed and said, "When I returned from the army, our instructor told us that renovation was a very promising business, and he encouraged me to keep learning and keep up with the times."
"At first, I wasn't very professional, so I slowly learned the ropes with a few friends. Later, I was lucky enough to get a job renovating a model apartment for a real estate company. The manager of the real estate company gave me a designer's blueprint, which I was so impressed with that I started to try to figure it out on my own."
"At first, I couldn't draw well. I didn't know anything. So I took night classes and gradually I became good at it."
"How amazing!" It turns out that there is never a shortage of caring people in this world.
Xu Heye gave Da Wu a thumbs up and looked at the drawing.
The retro, old-money style is particularly popular these days, with dark wood wainscoting and a brown base, creating a particularly dark and deep color scheme. Without the lights on, the room would be incredibly dark.
Building a circle of logs against the wall will further compress the interior space and make people feel very cramped.
Xu Heye doesn't like this. She still prefers a more open, simple and bright feeling.
Da Wu's design perfectly avoids this retro, old-money style. The color scheme is mainly white, beige and light yellow, emphasizing ventilation and the transparency of the entire room, which is very consistent with Xu Heye's aesthetic.
Unlike some designers who always think that the owner’s aesthetic taste is not good, even if the owner has stated his own requirements, they like to add a bunch of messy ideas of their own in it.
"Angkor, I really like your design. I'll follow your ideas for the renovation. However, I think some details could be adjusted."
"For example, the location of the socket. Look at this picture of the room. You put the socket next to the bed, which is fine. But you didn't consider the height of the bedside table. The socket is too low, sandwiched between the bedside table and the wall, which makes it very inconvenient to plug in the socket."
"In other places, such as the living room and second bedroom, the positions of switches and sockets in these places need to be adjusted according to the position and height of the furniture."
"Another example is the main light in the room. I hope to use a double-control switch. For the same light, put a switch at the door and another switch next to the bed. When you enter the room, press the switch at the door and the light will turn on. When you go to sleep, press the switch next to the bed and the light will go off. This way, you don't have to run to the door to turn off the switch and then go to bed in the dark."
The double-control switch was designed a long time ago, but she didn't know whether it has been introduced in current domestic decoration.
At least from what she had seen so far, whether it was her hometown in Jiangxi Province, the rental house in Zhangshu Lane, or her aunt's house, the light switches still used pull cords, not switches. The few that did use switches were single-control switches, not double-control switches.
Since it is a new home and she has money, she still hopes that the decoration of the house can be as convenient and easy as possible.
"What else?" Da Wu's voice was a little hoarse.
"Also, at the entrance, oh, right at the entrance, you could design a built-in multi-layer cabinet to conveniently store shoes."
"Leave more sockets to facilitate adding home appliances later."
"The kitchen has high and low tables, with the cutting area slightly higher than the cooking area, which helps relieve waist fatigue when cooking."
"The bathroom floor drain should be slightly lower than the surrounding ground. When you're renovating, you can buy a handful of marbles and scatter them around after installation. If they roll easily to the drain, it means there's no water accumulation."
"That's about it."
Xu Heye said it casually, but Da Wu was very excited when he heard it. He looked at Xu Heye as excited as when he saw the decoration drawings.
Xu Heye's ideas are the most basic operations in later decoration. But in this era when the real estate and decoration industries are just emerging, they are of leading significance.
Xu Heye's scalp was numb from being stared at by Da Wu, and she stuttered a little: "What, what's wrong? Can't you do it?"
Da Wu shook his head repeatedly: "Of course not."
"I think you said it very well. These are the small details that we didn't notice." But if done well, they will win the favor of the owner of the house.
When they do decoration work, in addition to looking for work in the labor market, they mainly rely on word of mouth and referrals from old customers.
Da Wu had a hunch that as long as they could follow what Xu Heye said and take care of all the details, there would be many more customers coming to him for renovations.
He had already decided that for this renovation project for the Xu family, he would not charge anything except the necessary materials and wages for his employees. If he hadn't been short of money, he wouldn't have wanted to charge the Xu family for the renovation.
He had a hunch that Xu Heye's advice alone would be enough for their decoration team to rely on for many years to come.
Xu Heye didn't expect that just by wanting to decorate her home to make it more comfortable and convenient, she could save herself a considerable amount of money.
Da Wu revised the drawings again, and this time there was basically nothing that needed to be modified.
After the general details were determined, Dong Taohua and Xu Hui could only supervise the decoration, mainly Xu Hui, because Dong Taohua only had seven days of vacation and had to return to Gan Province to work in two days.
At the factory, all 200 questionnaires sent out by Huang Wangcheng were collected back.
Not surprisingly, working women between the ages of 25 and 35, or urban white-collar women, are the most willing and financially capable of spending money on themselves.
They are willing to spend money, but at the same time they have very high requirements for the quality and style of clothes.
The uniforms that Xu Heye and her team made before are still being sold by Jiangcheng Garment Factory, and their main customer base is these urban white-collar workers.
With a clear direction, Huang Wangcheng began to think about new designs. However, as a self-taught person with less than a year of clothing courses, he spent two days drawing, nearly tugging his hair out, but still couldn't come up with a single design.
Xu Heye reminded him, "Uncle Huang, you can refer to the clothing designs in Hong Kong City."
"Read more fashion magazines there, and watch movies and TV shows there, and observe the styles of the leading actors and actresses in those movies and TV shows, especially the urban white-collar workers."
“Don’t think of it as plagiarism. Design starts with imitation. The most important thing is to find your own style.”
Fashion has a radiation circle. People in Gan Province yearn for the fashion of Hucheng, people in Hucheng yearn for the fashion of Gangcheng, and people in Gangcheng yearn for foreign luxury goods.
Foreign luxury goods stand at the top of the fashion pyramid.
Although Xu Heye knew very well that the luxury goods passed down by their country's ancestors were not inferior to those abroad, and even many of the so-called designs and inspirations of foreign top luxury brands came from China.
It is just that the huge economic gap between China and the outside world has blinded our eyes and made us forget China’s 5,000-year history and how precious the culture handed down is and how profound its heritage is.
But this is the current situation, which cannot be changed. We can only adapt to it and find a way out.
Thinking of this, Xu Heye said again: "Uncle Huang, you can buy some more books, books related to traditional Chinese clothing, jewelry, patterns, and embroidery. You can buy them and read more to enrich your aesthetic taste."
Xu Heye remembers that in the years before her death, Hanfu fever was already slowly gaining momentum. Perhaps it's too early now, but that day will come sooner or later.
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