Villa design

The cycle of villa decoration and design is very long. You need to choose a decoration company, select a designer, design a plan, appraise the construction contract, and select materials for construction! Generally, the renovation period for a villa of about 300 square meters may take 6 to 7 months. In addition, it may take longer to inspect companies and designers in the early stage and finalize the design plan.

General principles of villa decoration and design

Meet the usage requirements - practicality

Home decoration is people-oriented, and things are the last thing. Don't put the cart before the horse. Functionally distinguishing the use degree of each room, the status and role of the living room will become increasingly prominent: social contacts, cultural entertainment, daily life, etc. The architecture of small rooms and large living rooms has become a popular trend. The function of the bedroom is becoming increasingly simple: parents and children have their own little worlds in their own bedrooms, which are nothing more than personal secret activities and recreation. The layout design of the kitchen and bathroom is also improving day by day.

In line with economic strength - economy

The indoor layout is mainly comfortable and convenient to use. The standards vary from person to person and should not be compared for the sake of ostentation. As an owner, no matter how much you are prepared to invest, the designer will design based on your investment. You can leave some room, but it can't be too outrageous. You know, you get what you pay for. The biggest fear is the comparison mentality. When you see other people's decorations, you have to change your original designs and plans.

Rational layout - scientific

The reasonable layout of the environment must meet people's physiological and aesthetic requirements. Taking lighting as an example, there will be various lighting methods in the future. The size of the illumination, the direction of the light source, the angle of projection, the shape of the lamps, etc. are the highlight of the environment layout; the style of the furniture, the flow lines and shapes, and the colors. Collocation, etc., are the center of environmental layout.

Appropriate artistic decoration - artistry

A home without artistic decoration is not a successfully designed home. You must take your own interests and hobbies into consideration and tell your designer that he We will make a more outstanding layout for you, whether it is contrast or unity, Chinese style or European style, traditional or modern. There will be a cultural and artistic home that is most suitable for your personality and has contemporary cultural characteristics. before.

Precautions for the design of villa hard and soft decoration

1. Precautions for hard decoration:

Hard decoration refers to: not only to meet the infrastructure, but also to meet the needs of Housing structure, layout, function, appearance, all decorations added to the surface or interior of the building, including color, these decorations are in principle immovable. Such as entrances, partitions, doors and windows, walls and ceilings, and floor paving.

The ceiling, doors and windows in the new Chinese style decoration. The decoration of Chinese-style ceilings is mainly divided into ceiling and caisson ways. Since the current living room height is generally low, caissons are rarely used in home decoration. The ceiling decoration can be simplified, for example, only the traditional shape of the carved wooden roof can be made, square, round for fortune, longevity and other auspicious patterns, rectangular wooden lattice pattern, and a Chinese chandelier hung in the center. Doors and windows are very important in determining the overall style of the room. Chinese-style doors and windows are usually made of lattice bars with a checkered pattern. For those who are more particular, inlaid patterns such as lantern wicks can be carved. Aluminum alloy windows and plastic steel windows are installed on the windows on each floor, so it can make the style of the entire room unified. If possible, the windowed wall can be made into a row of false windows and installed with painted double-layer glass.

Traditional Chinese homes pay great attention to the hierarchy of space, such as using partitions and screens to divide the space. Traditionally using wood or lacquer painting, partition boards are made of wood to make a strong frame with fixed brackets, with a grid in the middle, carved in ancient patterns. If the room is spacious, it can be made into a "moon door" style floor cover or partition. New Chinese-style partition screens can be made of new materials, such as metal, alloy, hard, and the colors can be spray paint, baking paint, metal original color, wood color, plating, gold and silver foil veneer, etc.

2. Precautions for soft decoration

Soft decoration refers to: functions, appearance, attached to the surface or interior decoration and settings and equipment of the building in order to meet people's needs, principles The top can be moved and changed. Indoor green plants, such as curtains, sofa covers, cushions, tablecloth crafts and decorative crafts, iron decoration.

The matching and selection of soft furnishings are also very important. For example, simple and grand new Chinese-style decorations are very suitable, as are Chinese antique jewelry or imitation Han-style sanitary ware with exquisite shapes and smooth lines. However, if the warm colors of South American ethnic-style carving art or decorative paintings are The effect is different.

Mirrors used properly in a space can block the line of sight, expand the space, and increase the lighting. However, if used properly, they will not only violate Feng Shui taboos, but also easily cause danger. For example, the dressing mirror should not face the bed in the bedroom, and the main traffic in the room should not be mirrored to avoid dividing the attention of human actions and causing collisions and slips. If there are children at home, do not design mirrors that are placed too low to avoid dangers caused by curious children breaking the mirror.

Seven elements of villa decoration design

Courtyard design

The courtyard is a unique architectural feature of the villa, and its design should consider harmoniously blending into the overall external environment. , and then add the owner’s personalized elements. In terms of design, you can choose to plant the owner's favorite courtyard ornamental plants, or add waterscape design, outdoor leisure tables and chairs and other elements to reflect the owner's personalized elements.

Space division

Compared with the division of general space, the division of each space in the villa has very different emphasis. The spatial connection and transition of large houses and villas are more about reflecting the owner's taste and feelings of living, rather than focusing on practical functionality. This requires in-depth communication between the designer and the owner to discover the essence of the owner’s inner soul and then express it thoroughly.

Living room/floor height treatment

The living room of the villa is a large space and is an important indoor leisure place. It is also the place that most highlights the overall design style. Therefore, in terms of design, the designer needs Control the overall and partial control of the living room space. The floor height of the villa is higher than that of ordinary residences. In the design, auxiliary lighting, light treatment, wall decoration, fence form and material selection are generally considered to enrich the sense of space of the villa.

Indoor landscape

The spacious interior space of the villa allows the owner to create some interior landscapes that suit his taste according to his preferences, such as using brushed or textured walls, red bricks and different forms potted plants to create a warm and natural atmosphere.

Stairs

Stairs are also a key point that cannot be ignored in the design of a mansion. In addition to the stairs themselves, the material selection of their railings, skirtings, treads, and lighting treatment all require designers to The details are controlled under the overall design style.

Viewing terrace

Viewing terrace is an essential leisure space for large houses and villas. Choose cobblestones or wooden decking to lay on the terrace, and then arrange some of the owner's favorite flowers and plants, along with rattan chairs, coffee tables, etc., to inadvertently maximize the rustic country atmosphere.

Bathroom space

Compared with ordinary residences, there are more bathroom spaces in large villas. Therefore, in terms of planning, they are mainly divided according to the use objects, such as main bathroom, guest bathroom, and elderly bathroom. For bathrooms, etc., the design of the main bathroom should focus on reflecting the cultural taste of the owner, while the guest bathroom should focus on comfort.

26 Tips for Villa Decoration and Design

1. For bathrooms with high daily use, the market should be inspected in advance before decoration. After determining the product style, the washbasin must be determined according to the actual size. Reserve positions for pipelines such as bathtubs, cabinets, showers, etc. to avoid rework caused by improper modification in the future and make future decoration more beautiful.

2. Before the water and electricity renovation team enters the site, it is necessary to identify a professional overall cabinet merchant and confirm the design drawing in advance. Proper design of the locations of range hoods, sinks, flues, refrigerators, etc. will make the space more reasonable and beautiful. In addition, the kitchen needs to reserve as many sockets as possible. Modern families generally use more household appliances. Using power strips will affect the appearance. In this regard, professional cabinet designers will provide more comprehensive suggestions than decorative designers.

3. The designer will unify the height of some ceilings in order to unify the size. Careful observation should be made during decoration. If the room can be raised, please try to raise it as much as possible. This can increase the sense of space and comfort of use. Spend. It is not recommended to make a suspended ceiling, as it is time-consuming, labor-intensive and consumable, and the effect may not be as obvious as expected.

Four. Pay attention to details when designing. In addition to the living room, master bedroom and other spaces that need to be considered, some transitional spaces also need special attention. For example, a properly decorated entrance will have a good visual effect.

5. The video intercom system is one of the essential functions of modern villas. It is necessary to consider reserving video intercom phones on each floor and pay attention to the line reservation at the entrance door.

6. Try to reserve as many sockets as possible in rooms that are frequently used, such as the living room and master bedroom.

7. Consider reserving ground plugs and network cables in the study room in advance. The placement of desks and computer wiring need to be considered in advance. Closed-circuit television should also have as many sockets as possible in each room.

8. Keeping the room door larger will make the room look grander and more visually comfortable.

9. The current villas are basically rough houses, and not many have reserved mop pools in advance. However, in daily use, mop pools are still necessities of life. Most mop pools on the market are round, even if they are square. The size is not too big, so you can consider building the pool yourself and laying ceramic tiles in the same color as the bathroom, which is practical and beautiful.

10. Check whether there is water supply and drainage in the yard. Customers who like to grow flowers and vegetables can reserve space for tools in the yard.

11. Before decoration, be sure to pressurize the water supply pipelines and heating pipelines in advance and check for leaks to avoid unnecessary losses.

12. Solar energy should be booked in advance and solenoid valves should be installed in advance before laying tiles.

13. If the stairs need to be paved with marble, the dimensions need to be extracted after the tiles in the living room and bathroom are paved. Including the leveling of the wooden floor, it also needs to be done after the tiles are laid in the living room and bathroom. If these tasks are done in advance, errors will inevitably occur.

14. The door ordering cycle is relatively long, about 30-45 days. Customers who are eager to move in must make a reservation at the door entrance and make a reservation in time.

15. The heating pipeline should be laid as dark as possible. If you can book it in advance, reserve the pipeline according to the dealer's recommendation, which will make the room more neat and beautiful. This is also a problem that many owners easily overlook.

16. You can go to the building materials market to check out clothes-drying equipment in advance, and arrange the drying space reasonably, taking everything into consideration whether it is sunny or rainy.

17. Floor drains should be prepared before laying floor tiles. A water storage test must be done before paving bathroom and kitchen floors.

18. Check in advance whether the position of the roof drainage pipe is properly reserved to avoid water flow from affecting the plants and supplies in the yard when it rains. Also pay attention to see if dripping noise occurs.

19. Marble slabs will have a relatively large color difference with the samples. Customers who pursue perfection are best to go to merchants with ready-made stones to choose slabs

20. Pay attention to hidden water , the location of electrical pipelines, try to avoid them when nailing things to the wall to avoid water leakage or electric leakage.

21. Before decorating the house, you must find a professional integrated cabinet merchant and prepare the design drawings in advance. Proper design of the locations of range hoods, sinks, flues, refrigerators, etc. will make the space more reasonable and beautiful. In addition, the kitchen needs to reserve as many sockets as possible. Modern families generally use more household appliances. Using power strips will affect the appearance.

22. When decorating and designing, we must pay attention to details. The most important places we consider here are the living room and bedroom. There are also some excessive spaces that we need to consider, such as the design of the entrance. , if the design is good, it can have good visual effects.

23. Nowadays, villas have visual intercom systems. It is no exaggeration to say that the video intercom system is one of the essential functions of villas now. We must do it when decorating and designing Considering that video intercom phones are reserved on each floor, pay attention to the line reservation at the entrance door.

24. When decorating, try to reserve more sockets in rooms that are frequently used, such as living rooms and bedrooms.

25. When decorating the study room, you should consider reserving ground plugs and network cables. The placement of the desk and the routing of network cables need to be considered in advance. CCTV should also have as many sockets as possible in each room.

26. Keeping the room door larger will make the room look grander and more visually comfortable.