Summary: In the former two money saving articles, I mentioned about the importance of cost sheet and how to save money in house decoration generally. And now I’d like to tell you something about saving money by selecting decoration materials.
As we all know, the cost of house decoration is consisted of material cost, labor and object cost. Among these three main costs, the easiest way for you to save money is on material cost. If you know how to select the most suitable material, great amount of money you will save.
1. Before purchasing, know the price of the materials you want to buy
It occurs that the same product has different price in different markets and what you should do is to know the exact price of the product and find the cheapest one.
2. Group – buying
Group – buying is no doubt the best way for you to get a lower price of a product. Where can you group-buying information? Go to the forum and ask people there.
3. Kitchen equipment
If you seldom cook at home, don’t buy many cooking utensils. Also, it’s totally unnecessary for you to buy expensive cupboards. If you cook almost every day at home, choose some brand that has practical products. Durable products are what you need.
4. Choose engineered wood flooring
Flooring cost is the biggest part in decoration material. For people who are in fond of wood flooring, I recommend that you give up the idea as the price is quite high. At the same time, it’s not an easy job to maintain the good condition of wood flooring. The engineered wood flooring is much cheaper and easy to maintain. Also, engineered wood flooring does not crack eaaily.
5. Choose cheap cleaners and polishes
A truth is for most cleaners and polishes, there are almost no quality difference among the expensive one and cheap one. Indeed, the outlook of the expensive cleaners and polishes may be better than that of the cheap one. But in order to save money, consider the cheap one.
6. Cheap brand paint
For paint, you may worry about the safety of it and that why I recommend you to buy brand paint. There are usually many series of products under on brand, and you’d better choose an ordinary series product with lower price.
7. Faucet selecting
Choose cheap brand faucet for your house. For product that for functional use, the practicability of the product is more important than the aesthetic property of which. Just as I mentioned in cleaners and polishes part, choose the cheap one.
