How to Calculate Cost for Interior Design Work at your own

Welcome back home owners, hope you have read the previous article of planning theinterior design work at your home. Now comes the budgeting the basic costing for all over interior work. With the help of this blog, we will make you understand the techniques in estimation of the cost for home interior execution. If we categorize the whole work in different section we will get:

A.    Carpentry Working- Carpentry includes fixed furniture like Wardrobes with all fittings, LCD Panels, Showcase, crockery stands, cabinets in washrooms, door lamination, paneling on walls etc.

B.    Modular Kitchen- Although this also a part of wood work, but treated as specially, because modular kitchen requires extra attention in selecting a combination laminates, ply boards, hardware fittings as per your need, channels, soft closes etc. There are variety of range available in market like ozone, Godrej, hettich, Kaif with some Indian brands like zinc plus, sleek and many more.

C.   False ceiling- Commonly there are two type of false ceiling work one is gypsum board based and other is pop base. In residential we suggest to go for pop based false ceiling to have perfect finish. Design you can freeze with you interior designer. If your designer is decorator then it is best. So try to choose interior designer and decorators only.

D.   Painting Work – As per your developed interior designs the designer will give you colour codes of used shades. You can check actual feel of colors in shade cards of companies like Asian paints,, Narolac, Dulex, Berger. After chooing the shade you need to discuss the process of painting on walls. Like how much cote he will be doing, will he apply wall putty or white cement etc. Actual process can be defined as:

White cement paint- one cote of wall putty- Primer-Rubbing- Primer-2^nd cote of wall putty- Primer-Rubbing-1^st cote of paint-2^nd cote of paint-3^rd cote of paint.

In case of special wall like for texture paints, you need to finish the wall upto 2^nd quote of primer.

E.    Furniture’s- Furniture is also a sort carpentry work, But we treat it as a loose items, as this can made at different location and installed at site. You need to finalize the bed designs with dimensions of each and chosen laminate shades.

F.    Lights and Switches- We need to decide the requirements of electrical points like location of AC, LCD, LED lights, hanging lights, lamps, Fan in common areas. In kitchen we need to know fridge, microwave, juicer mixers, OTG, Dishwasher, chimney etc.

G.   Optional Items- There are optional items like flooring, sanitary items, Fixtures etc, which will be provided by your builder. But if you are building your home you need to finalize these things to.

H.   Loose Items: It includes like Rugs, Carpets, Curtain and drapers etc,

Categorization done, now comes the interior decoration cost estimation. It also depends on many factors, but we will try get some idea of cost calculation. :-

Depending on the Material differentiation, Hardware and Fittings costing, availability of laminate shades, unique items placement, sizes and measurements, makes a variation in rates. Whereas all other things can be managed in purchasing items but the question is how will you do the measurements or check the measurement taken by Carpenters.

Painting, Wallpaper and false ceiling are done in same way - calculated based on area under execution,

Woodwork and furniture is measured by multiplying the front dimensions width and depth for the item. For Example. – If the wardrobe has a size of 8 ft height and 6ft width, then the costing would be 8x6x1200 = 57.6 K approximately.

While measuring Kitchen- we need to the slab area. Suppose the slab are is of 6x7 Sq Ft. and slab height is 2.6 ft then the working are will be 6x2.6+7x2.6 = 33.8 Sq Ft. for lowr portion in the same way we can do for overhead cabinets 6x2+7x2= 26 sq Ft so the total area is 33.8+26 = 59.8 SFT. So the costing will be 59.8x1400= Rs 83720

Now comes the costing calculation. Here are some common methods to calculate the costing in Ser Sq Ft:

1. Cost for Modular Kitchen – 1400 Rs/Sft to 2000 Rs/Sft (Varies due the material)
2. Wardrobes with all fittings – 1000 Rs/Sft to 1800 Rs/Sft (Varies due the material)
3. LCD Units, Study Units, Showcase – 700 Rs/Sft to 1200 Rs per Sft (Varies due the design)
4. False Ceiling – 90 Rs/Sft to 150 Rs/Sft (Varies due the design)
5. Painting – 25 Rs per SFT to 70 Rs per SFT (premium finish)
6. Wallpapers – 100 Rs/SFT to 300 Rs/SFT
7. Flooring – Tiles flooring 120 Rs/ SFT to 200 Rs/SFT ; Marble Flooring 150 Rs/SFT to 400 Rs/SFT
8. Curtains and Drapers – As per your choice only

Now you have a decent idea about the costing part and hence you can now decide what would fit in your budget and same you can discuss with your interior designer and decorator.

At Archplanest, we provide the interior design services to home owners of all over India, and does Interior decoration as turnkey consultant in delhi NCR

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28x46 Sq ft Multistoried House Plan

Now days in urban area most of the plot owner wants to develop a multi-purpose house plans. This may include a sort of combining residential purpose house for owner and rental. The above shown house plan is developed for Chennai location. The elevation of house plans may not be very luxurious type but due the height and number of floors we can apply various features on balcony and over windows. And in case if the plot is corner facing, then we can get very good elevation features, balconies and cross ventilation in house. In these type house plans vastu can be neglected, because the focus is to have best comfortable living house for both owner and tenant. In these type of house plans there is dual costing of stairs, one is external stairs and one is internal for duplex part. The above mentioned house plans is built in 28x40 sq ft. The house plan is having both the plans- duplex house for owner and 1 bhk houses for rental on 1^st floor and 2^nd floor. The duplex portion is covering half of the built up area of 1^st floor.

Details of Duplex house in the house plan are:

1. 1.       On Ground floor- We have 2 car parking, some open space in front, 1 dining drawing area attached with open kitchen. The internal stairs are going up in dining area to 1^st floor. On ground floor plan we have 1 common toilet. As we have designed rental homes on 1^st and 2^nd floor, that’s why we have planned an external stairs for accessing rental house portion.
2. 2.       On 1^st floor- First floor plan is combination of half duplex and half portion is 1bhk house for rental purpose. We have external stairs to access the other floors.
3. 3.       On 2^nd Floor we have two units of 1bhk house.
4. 4.       The dimensions of bedrooms are 10x11 sq ft, a standard type in multi purpose houseplans. Kitchen size Is big in owners house, whether we have small kitchens in rental house.  

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Follow VASTU FOR NEW House plan & CONSTRUCTION

As mentioned in the Rig Veda, Vastu has been derived from the phrase vasanti praminae yantra, meaning ‘a place where humans reside.’ In other words, Vastu is a representative of the cosmos in an attempt to live life more fully. The need of the hour is now for Vastu to take its place on the honour roll of the ancient arts of the world and become accessible to people belonging to every strata of society. Vastu principles, however, apply right from the start when one plans to build a house of his own. Procuring the right site, position of the plot, texture and quality of the land etc every minute detail needs to be taken into consideration before boiling down to commencing construction work for a house or office premises. Here are some important Vastu tips for new construction pertaining to the proper selection of soil.

A great deal of importance is placed by Vastu on the proper quality of soil at the site of a house which should be carefully studied and judged before beginning new construction on it. For this, we can conduct an initial test of sorts. For this, it is suggested to dig two pits of 2x2x2 feet dimension, making sure that the soils of the two pits is now mixed together. In one of these pits, soil should be put back. Once the pit is filled, there should be a residue of the soil left over. If the dug-up soil exactly packs the pit, or even worse, falls short, then the site is not regarded as being productive of prosperity.

As for the other pit, it should be filled with water to the brim. In an ideal site, the water should take over an hour to be absorbed byt he soil. If it takes less time than that, the site is regarded as a potential drain on resources. Large cracks left behind in the pit after the water drains away is a forewarning that extensive construction expenses would be incurred on new construction on the plot. A couple of small cracks is not a matter of concern, but if there are more than seven cracks, then think wisely before investing your money on such a piece of land.

A quicker test of soil quality can be done by digging a pit of the size mentioned above, filling it with water, and walking away for a length of 100 paces at your normal gait. When you return, a good site will retain over half the water, an average site would retain between one-fourth and one-half of the water while a poor site would retain less than one-fourth of the water in the pit.

Also note, black soil that goes down to a depth of twelve feet is supposed to be an obstacle that no amount of hard work can overcome. It would lead to stagnation of career and progress in one’s life. Black soil that covers the first three to four feet and is upon a layer of white and red soil is considered fine. The best colour for soil is white, followed by the red soil. For business men, yellowish colour soil is regarded the best. Moreover, if the texture of the soil is crumbly and friable, this indicates an easy and steady flow of cash. Soil that exudes an oily or pleasant smell within one foot of digging is also considered beneficial.                                        
Vastu says never overlook the soil texture of the land where you intend to build your dream house or office, or else it would lead to a steady downfall for you and your family in the future. 

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