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Catching up on interior design for many years and having taught the profession “from scratch” quite a lot of people, we found some pretty typical for a novice designer errors. After reading this article, you will be able to avoid these mistakes and make the repair process entrusted to you the apartment or any other room more pleasant and painless.
Thus, the typical errors in the design and renovation of apartments:
Let’s start with the bathrooms.
1. Placing on the plan plumbing in the bathroom, remember that it must have drained into sewers, which means that all sanitary ware connected to the sewer riser pipe whose size is not always possible to “drown” the pipes in the wall. Therefore, they should let the wall and hide some boxes that should be immediately reported in the drawings.
2. Under the bath and it is desirable to design dushkabiny small podiums, or otherwise provide for their recovery. This is due to the low position of drains in the bathrooms and dushkabinah regarding the floor level, which in turn leads to poor water drainage and the accumulation of her during the shower.
3. In any bathroom should be a so-called technical cabinet, which houses a comb, to cut off water valves, meters and filters. Access to this cabinet should always be friendly and kind of blacked out hatches or doors. Typically, the designer gives a hatch at the mercy of the workers – say, do those sizes that you see fit, and we then it somehow beat. Such an approach is not entirely correct. It is best to consider how you will solve this problem and design an opening in the hatch in advance. Still at an early stage of repair with the customer to select a tile and its layout on the wall and project an opening in the door of the cabinet so that it was equal to an integer multiple tiles. Then the door itself can be specified in the figure and put flush with the wall. Or do the door opening as decorative niches or shelves. In any case, the tiles will come to hatch a whole and not truncated as it is not clear.
Location sockets and switches.
4. Placing blocks of outlets and switches on the wall sweeps, remember that in most series of sockets of different manufacturers there is no scope for more than 5 posts. This means that it is impossible to design a series (one block) more than 5 outlets and switches.
5. Projecting the sockets and switches on the countertop kitchen or bedside tables, pay special attention to the height of their location and, if necessary, leave a small margin. This will help avoid the transfer of sockets and switches, if the customer chooses the higher the bed-side tables or countertops in the kitchen is too high plinth.
Value finish with furniture.
6. It is very important for the development of interior design to consider the future of the arrangement of furniture and decoration carefully weighed and design of an empty room with an arrangement of furniture, which it will be filled.
For clarity, the mistakes that can make the inexperience of a novice designer, consider two examples:
In this embodiment, the bed center and, consequently, the axis of bedside sockets, switches and lamps are strictly between the center of the facade of the cabinet and the wall with a window. The height of the bedside sockets exposed on standard 15 cm from the floor. This is wrong!
Bed and central axis of the bedside sockets, switches and lamps are located in the center of the facade between the cabinet and the edge of curtains, which is 20 cm from the wall with a window. If the bed was so, as indicated in the previous version, only to end-stage repair of an apartment, and it was after the hanging of curtains you and your customers would find that the left and right passes to the bed are different, and this visual asymmetry spoil the view of the bedroom.
As for bedside sockets, then it is better to put on a par with the switches, because These outlets are often used to connect your laptop and charge your cell phone, access must be simple and convenient, but the first version of this access hamper cabinet.
Parquet is laid deck. In the center of the room is beautiful and very expensive (costing thousands of dollars) outlet, designed to be the highlight of an exclusive lounge.
Think about what happens after the repair of an apartment and settling in her customer.
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7. Another very important point that if you do not think about it in advance may result in problems in the final stages of repair, is the size of openings for doors. Now the choice is huge doors and there is no single standard size at which it would be necessary to prepare the opening. Must be defined in advance with the manufacturer and model of the door, its size, the size of its frames, etc. FLEXINVEST BANK Pointing to the width of the opening of construction drawings, do not commit common errors. Must specify the width of the door with a box (not leaf) plus the clearance of 2-3 cm
Formatting Tips drawings.
Always remember that a beautiful and competent presentation of the material (no matter what you do – construction drawings, sketches, and statement of accounts, or simply an explanatory note) defines a half success with the customer.
1. Tags can not contain grammatical errors.
2. Phrases should be properly constructed.
3. All lines in the drawings should be clearly visible when printed.
4. Font should be large enough to be well read in dim light and at the same time not be too large.
5. Words should not be crossed with lines.
6. You should not split hairs with the font itself – let it be something classic, like Times New Roman.
7. Plans should be built so that it could not even understand versed in building people.
In general, all should be concise, informative and easy to read.
Working with the drawings in the process of repair.
For putting your ideas into practice you should be able to convey their thoughts to the immediate perpetrators. It would seem that it is enough to competently make drawings (which was written a little later) and in time to send their foreman or to the customer.
As practice shows, this is often not enough. If you want to be a designer in the truest sense of the word (see “Job Designer”), rather than just draw pretty pictures, you have to take responsibility and take part in everything that happens on your site.
Almost always in the process of repairing the Customer with the designer make changes to the interior of the apartment next. This may be caused by many factors, of which we are not going to say. And it is extremely important to record these changes (to do this at a meeting with the customer to always keep a notebook or notepad) and bring them to the performers. Try to make quick changes to the project and be sure to select the color of their, thick lines or simply accompanying text to the person reading the drawing immediately knew what and where has been changed. Also, if at all possible, try to withdraw from the site the old, obsolete drawings, lest they accidentally not be used as laborers.