Thursday 10 March 2011

10 TIPS FOR REDUCING CONSTRUCTION COSTS

Constructing the home is simple, but reducing the cost of construction is difficult. So you should aware about how to construct your building by reducing the cost. Unawareness may leads to loss of money and time. Some of the factors for reducing the cost is discussed below.

1. Contact any builders to get the details for the estimation of cost required. Also inquire the details for quality, size, shape and other features you want.

2. You can also contact any person who newly constructed a building and take advice from him.

3. Avoid using large number of windows in the home and also minimize the size of window.

4. High roofs may also increase the cost of house. So opt for a simple roof system.

5. Also consider the size, style, shape and quality of homes which suits your budget.

6. More angles and corners in the home may leads to increase in cost. This may also consume more time which results in high labor cost. So you can make dome shaped homes which is costless compared to other shapes.

7. Almost 10% of total cost of construction should gone for flooring work. But we can reduce this cost by selecting right kind of flooring material according to the budget of every person.

8. Also proper planning can reduce the cost of overruns up to 10% of total cost.

9. Try to construct your home early as possible with planning, because cost of building a home increases around 4% to 6% per year.

10.Don't opt for change in design at the last minute of construction.

INTERIOR FURNISHING

In order to keep the home beautiful, interior furnishing should be done. The furnishing period comes when people facing financial crisis after the construction of house. So furnishing budget should be determined during planning phase and should be saved early. Also we want to make a list for what is the furniture we want to buy. If there is any old furniture, then we want to decide whether to repair it or not. The other things we want to consider for furnishing is curtains, tables, chair and so on. Creative thinking can make a difference in furnishing.
                              Interior furnishing can be divided into two as Soft Furnishing and Hard Furnishing. Hard furnishing includes table, chair and bed whereas Soft furnishing includes curtain, cushion, bed sheet, carpet, rug, door mat and so on. Only one style should follow for interior designing otherwise it may alter the look of the room. Nowadays, people are selecting same color of interior materials for the furniture. This type of designing is known as Theme Designing. Traditional or Classical type interior materials can be used for furnishing. The interior materials should be designed such that it suits with the exterior part of house.

It is difficult to say how much to spent for furnishing a home. The amount may vary according to the number of furniture, the cost of furniture, the clothes used for covering the furniture and other materials used. Experts are sayings; today 10 to 30% of total cost of construction is spent on furnishing. Every man can buy the furniture according to his capacity. Ordinary man can buy upholstery sofas whereas rich man can buy original Italian leather sofas which is little expensive.

Tuesday 8 March 2011

THE REAL ESTATE SERVICE


The term Real Estate is mainly used for the movable property under legal rules. This term is widely used today for the transactions of commercial as well as residential properties. Real Estate Companies provides the intermediary services for the buyer and seller of property. They assist the customers to get the right plot for their construction of building. In addition to that, they are also accepting projects for building construction. Once the projects have been accepted by a real estate company, they bring the project to completion, while preserving the objectives of timely delivery, fine quality, high efficiency and optimized costs.

                                         Every people have a dream of owning a house. You want to contact any real estate agent in order to fulfill your dream of owning a home or flat. Real Estate companies are giving opportunities for those people to buy well constructed apartments, beautifully located villas, well furnished flats and single compounded house. Buying a home is not an easy task. You want to consider several factors while buying a home. You can contact any real estate companies rather than contacting any local brokerage services, because they are charging around 5 to 6% of deal price. Also there is an increased chance of betrayal. 

                                        Today Real estate companies are also providing services for real estate consultants and contractors for architectural, constructional and engineering solutions.  Also their charges should be affordable.  They are conducting continuous marketing surveys and also give instructions on work with state licensing and approval bodies. Real Estate companies also update the surveys and analysis of land rate which will help customer to find the most comfortable place for their construction of building. So select a proper real estate company in order to build a dream home.