Chapter 115 Decoration
The city of Shenzhen was almost soaked in rain in April. The sun hardly ever visited the city, leaving it sticky and wet due to the rain.
Wang Xiuren spent most of this month working in Lin Ping's two-bedroom apartment, accompanied by the male owner Yang Zhefeng and the supervisor Lin Ting.
After much hard work, the project was finally completed the day before May Day.
At this time, the walls were decorated without any paint or coating, but were whitewashed with white cement and lime. So after a month of ventilation and airing, Lin Ting helped pick a day and moved in. They finally had their own home in Pengcheng.
Lin Qiu and Wang Xiuren gave an electric fan as a housewarming gift.
After Lin Ping's house was renovated, Wang Xiuren planned to use his free time to renovate his two houses.
The yellow wood edging decoration style has become popular in recent years. It looks good, but it is expensive.
If he were to live there himself, Wang Xiuren would still consider it, but if he was planning to rent it out, he would naturally do it in the most cost-effective way, so he would study the floor plan whenever he had nothing to do.
Lin Qiu’s idea was simple, “Just paint the wall white!”
“Isn’t that too easy?”
Wang Xiuren felt that although the house was going to be rented out, it couldn’t be too rough or too bare!
Lin Qiu didn't think it was a big deal. No matter how well it was decorated, if he encountered troublesome tenants, he would not take good care of it as if it were his own home.
So she made the final decision: "Just paint it white! White makes it look bigger and brighter!"
“It always feels like there is no renovation at all.”
It was rented out to someone else. Lin Qiu said confidently, "Why spend so much money? It's just giving others a bargain. If it gets destroyed, I'll be even more angry!"
That's true. Wang Xiuren nodded, "What about the floor?"
“Just pick a light-colored tile!”
Wang Xiuren wrote and drew on the paper, then handed the decoration drawing to Lin Qiu, "Take a look and see if there is anything you want to change."
Lin Qiu didn't understand this, so he waved his hand and said, "Just do whatever you want!"
But when he saw the switch next to the bed, he suddenly added: "Remember to put more power strips!"
"Okay!" Wang Xiuren quickly added this one.
You need to pay attention to the circuit aspect. There are often news reports on TV about fires caused by random plug-in boards and random wiring.
"Anything else to add?"
"Not for now!" Lin Qiu planned to lie down and sleep, "Call me when you choose tiles!"
"That requires asking the leader for permission!" Wang Xiuren said respectfully.
"Go away! When did I become your leader!" Lin Qiu threw a pillow at Wang Xiuren.
Wang Xiuren took the pillow and said seriously: "Haven't you always been my leader?"
Lin Qiu couldn't help laughing at his pretentious appearance.
Wang Xiuren laughed along while holding a pillow.
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Because Wang Xiuren only knew carpentry, he hired a plasterer to lay the floor tiles. After the tiles were laid, he asked a plumber to modify the water and electricity lines.
At noon that day, he took advantage of the fact that the owner's materials had not yet arrived, so he rode his motorcycle to the newsstand.
Lin Qiu was giving change to a customer. He glanced at Wang Xiuren at the door and continued to get newspapers for the next customer.
Wang Xiuren saw that there were not many customers outside the counter, so he stood at the door and waited for her to finish.
"Why are you here?" Lin Qiu asked across the counter after all the customers had left.
"The materials won't arrive until tomorrow, so I want to buy the tiles today while I have time." Wang Xiuren waved the motorcycle key at Lin Qiu twice: "Have you had lunch? We'll leave after lunch!"
"I've eaten!" Lin Qiu closed the door of the newsstand. "Shall we go to Weimei Ceramics later?"
Weimei Ceramics is a well-known ceramic manufacturer and seller in Guangdong Province. Its Marco Polo tiles are said to be well-known overseas and deeply trusted by everyone.
"Yes, go if you want!" Wang Xiuren handed a helmet to Lin Qiu and put on another one himself.
The storefront of Weimei Tiles is very large, with hundreds of product styles and an even wider variety of colors.
The popular style of floor tiles in the past two years is decorative tiles, but decorative tiles are too demanding in terms of color, pattern and matching. If you are not careful, you will regret it for the rest of your life, and the cost of redoing it is a bit high.
Lin Qiu thought that his aesthetic taste was limited, so he only chose a type of decorative tiles for the balcony that he liked.
"What about the living room and bedrooms?" Wang Xiuren took a pen and marked on the list.
Lin Qiu thought about the shopping guide's recommendation. "For the living room and bedroom, use terrazzo. It's cheap and stain-resistant. For the kitchen, use full-body tiles. They're non-slip and wear-resistant."
“As for the bathroom, I used white glazed tiles, which looks clean and simple!”
After marking the categories, Wang Xiuren began to calculate the usage. In order to prevent mistakes, he calculated it twice.
After making the calculation, Wang Xiuren took the list and went to place the order.
"How much?"
I saw Wang Xiuren coming over with an invoice from a distance," Lin Qiu immediately went up to him and asked.
"486 RMB including the shipping fee!" Wang Xiuren handed the invoice to Lin Qiu. "I guess the plasterer's wages will be about the same."
"Decoration is really expensive!" Lin Qiu sighed.
"We've already done the simplest thing. We haven't bought any electrical wires, sockets, water pipes or anything like that. There will be a lot of money to spend later!" Wang Xiuren counted on his fingers.
"If I had known earlier, I would have learned some plumbing installation or plastering work!" Lin Qiu looked regretful. How much money could he have saved if he knew how to do it!
Wang Xiuren couldn't imagine her digging wire troughs or mixing cement, so he joked, "That's great. We don't need to hire anyone from building the house to decorating it and moving in!"
Lin Qiu also felt that he was overthinking and rubbed his hands, "That's all I said! I'm fine with operating the sewing machine, but as for these two jobs, I'd better leave the money to others!"
"Have you finally figured it out?" Wang Xiuren smiled at her.
Lin Qiu scolded: "I'm not stupid!"
Lin Qiu didn't care about what happened next. There were people at home who understood the situation, so he didn't need to worry about it at all.
It was only after Wang Xiuren took his tools to the new house and worked on it for a week that Lin Qiu found time to go and take a look.
A shoe cabinet, two wardrobes and kitchen cabinets are standard for both houses.
Wang Xiuren also used the remaining boards to make two benches for each room, making the best use of the materials without wasting a single bit.
"What kind of paint do you think the cabinet should be painted with to make it look better?" Wang Xiuren pointed at the cabinet and asked
"I think it looks good even without brushing!" Lin Qiu answered without hesitation.
"If you don't paint the wood, it will age easily! And it will get moldy when the weather turns south."
This is popular science information from veteran carpenter Wang Xiuren.
"Is there any transparent paint?" Lin Qiu thought the original wood color looked pretty good.
"Are you talking about varnish? It's not impossible!" Wang Xiuren decided to listen to his wife on such a small matter.
"Then when can we post the flyers?" Lin Qiu couldn't help but get excited when he thought about having two more houses to rent out in the future.
"Wait a couple of days, until the varnish dries!"
For these two houses, he was directly or indirectly involved in every step, from design to material selection to construction.
He looked at the house carefully, feeling indescribably satisfied.
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