Chapter 16 - Decoration

“What materials do you all have for the full package?” Zhang Han asked.

Regarding the renovation, although he didn’t know that much, it was enough for him to not get conned.

“Our company has retail stores at Xilong Renovation Market, and furthermore we cooperate with quite a few international brands, therefore, whatever decoration and materials you want, we have. Moreover, the price will be cheaper compared to the shop,” Zhao Kai replied.

This kind of situation was mutually beneficial. Zhao Kai’s company would buy the materials at wholesale price, then sell the materials to the buyer at a profitable price. This way, the company could earn money, and the buyers could also save some money too.

Of course, for this kind of situation to work, the inner quality of a company matters too. Unless a company were to substitute the materials with fake materials.

“I will take the full package then,” said Zhang Han as he nodded his head.

Hearing that, Zhao Kai’s smile became more enthusiastic. Taking the iPad over from the youth’s hand, he opened up the photo album and said, “I’m not sure what kind of renovation style Mr. Zhang wants? Here are some of our company’s renovation examples. After you have decided, when we go back today, we will make drawings according to your specifications then give you a chance to choose.”

Zhang Han began to look at the pictures on the iPad, while Manager Ma left after picking up a phone call.

Zhang wanted to renovate the first floor in a family-house style, and not a business store style.

The structure of the first floor was very simple, there was only a staircase at the inner left side, and a toilet at the right side. The remaining space was just the living room. The door faced towards the south and was located at between two very wide French windows.

Zhang Han muttered to himself for a while, then spoke, “Somewhere near the middle, place a television on the wall in the east side. In front of the television wall, place a sofa and coffee table.

This way, Meng Meng can watch the television while she is waiting for me to cook for her. The kitchen will be on the west side, and it will be a square shape open kitchen. The stove will be placed at the side facing towards the television. This way, I can look at Meng Meng while I cook.

Near the television, a small stage can be built there for me to put a piano. When I am free, I can teach Meng Meng to play the piano. Near the piano, and at the corner near the door, I can put a small high table there and place a laptop on the small high table, then I can install a high-quality sound system. That way, when eating, I can play music.

Near the window and sofa, place a small round table and four ball-shaped chairs. It will be the corner for eating snacks and drinking beverages. On the outer area, place a dinner table, and a big crystal chandelier above the dinner table. Also, around the dinner table, I want some decorations.”

“Mr Zhang, this won’t be hard. There will be no problem with the renovation,” Zhao Kai said while he opened his phone’s calculator and started calculating,

“Let me see… Floor tiles, kitchen’s wall bricks, a small area of integrated ceiling at the kitchen, rest of the ceilings, television wall, small stage, the furniture, the cost of tearing down the original decorations, and also the cost of the revamping the second floor. Not counting the materials, the total fee for the manual work will cost 150k yuan.”

“How long will it take for you to finish all the renovations?” Zhang Han asked.

Zhao Kai muttered for a while, then replied, “About 20 or so days should be enough.”

“One week!” Zhang Han raised up a finger and said, “Finish the renovation in a week. I will give you 300k yuan for the manual work fee!”

“Wah?”

Zhao Kai thought he didn’t hear clearly at first and went into a daze. Then he was overjoyed at the unexpected good news and quickly nodded his head and said, “Alright, alright! The renovation will be finished within a week. Then, Mr Zhang, do you want to hand over a down payment first? It is currently 3pm. I can call people to come down to tear down the original decorations right now. Before night, they will most likely be able to finish tearing down the original decorations.”

“Alright.”

Zhang Han signed a contract with Zhao Kai, then immediately transferred 300k yuan over to Zhao Kai.

After signing the contract, Zhao Kai contacted people to come down. Within less than 30 minutes, 2 pickup trucks arrived at the door. Within the 2 pickup trucks, there were a total of 5 workers.

“Mr Zhang, about those chairs, tables and……” Zhao Kai asked with hesitation.

“Handle it as you wish.” Zhang Han waved his hand.

Zhao Kai smiled. All of those chairs, tables and other various items could be sold for at least 2k-3k yuan, which could be counted as a small tiny profit.

“Mr Zhang, I will let people to start working with the drawings, and at night you will be able to choose from one of the 3D drawings. After you finish choosing, we will be able to start working tomorrow.” Zhao Kai said with a smile.

“I will draw a simple drawing for you first. You all can just follow according to my drawing and refine upon it.”

Zhang Han was well aware of how he wanted to renovate the house. Taking over the paper Zhao Kai handed over to him, Zhang Han began drawing according to the design in his mind. Although the drawing was ordinary, the specific details and shapes could still be made out.

Seeing Zhang Han’s drawing, the corner of Zhao Kai’s mouth twitched.

Seems like the carpenters will have to suffer to create this. How did he even think of these exquisite designs? The designs appeared to be very fitting and pleasing to the eyes, especially the three-dimensional small fences surrounding the dinner table.

“Oh yeah, I want to make a jadeite lotus decoration on the television wall. The petals have to be a crossover of pink and white.” Zhang Han added.

“Jadeite……lotus……television wall decoration?” Zhao Kai widened his eyes and repeated the sentence with difficulty.

The workload that he thought was little, now seemed to be the opposite.

Just the television wall decoration alone was more than enough to cause headache. Furthermore, the estimated cost of just this television wall decoration alone was above a million yuan!

“This……Mr Zhang.” Zhao Kai laughed bitterly, “I think 7 days is not enough.”

“Oh?” Zhang Han’s expression did not change as he said lightly, “I will give you 500k yuan of manual work fee then.”

7 days was not enough? Add money then.

Upon hearing that, Zhao Kai went into a daze again. While feeling pleasantly surprised in his heart, he also somewhat sighed in his heart. It was the first time that he actually met with such a……unconventional customer.

Some customers would give tips, but the tips they gave would not be a lot. It was his first time encountering someone like Zhang Han who increases the price of manual work fee after exchanging a few words.

“Alright, I guarantee that the renovation will be completed within 7 days.” Zhao Kai took a deep breath and gave his guarantee. He decided to double the number of workers and renovate 24hr every day for this customer.

After Zhao Kai instructed the youth beside him to quickly go work with the drawings, he turned around and said to Zhang Han, “Mr Zhang, the time is pressing. Do you have any materials that you would want for the materials of the floor tiles, wall bricks and ceilings? Or else, how about you come with me to Xilong Renovation Market to choose the materials that you want?”

Zhang Han nodded his head and followed along with Zhao Kai to Xilong Renovation Market. At the first store, they came to a high-end international brand ceramic tile store. After seeing something that he liked, Zhang Han immediately ordered it.

The floor tile that Zhang Han chose was the pseudo-classic bricks which belonged to the mocha palace series. A square meter cost 2500 yuan. Adding the wall bricks, skirting board and other things, the total came around to 490k yuan. As for the materials for the ceilings and cement, sand and so on other supplementary materials, the total came around to close to 300k yuan. The reason why the price of those materials was expensive was because Zhang Han chose high-end, formaldehyde-free environmentally-friendly materials. After the renovation was complete, he would be able to immediately start staying in the house.

After spending close to an hour to buy the materials, Zhao Kai saw that there was still time, and so asked, “Mr Zhang, the time is still early right now. Should we go to the furniture marketplace and take a look at the sofa, exhaust hood and the other furniture? This way, we can just quickly install the furniture when we renovate.”

“Alright.” Zhang Han nodded his head.

The two of them went straight to the furniture market in the vicinity and did another round of shopping.

The sofa that would be placed in front of the sofa was a white color high-end leather sofa, which had the shape of a bent moon and the length of 4 meters. The cost of the sofa was not expensive. Only 40k yuan. Not expensive!

As for the television, coffee table, chairs, and tables, those were all much easier to buy. For the first floor and second floor, Zhang Han spent 500k yuan. The cost included the bathtub, smart toilet bowl, smart washing machine, 4 door large-scale fridge, air conditioners, air purifiers and so on other items.

After finish buying everything as they were intending to leave, Zhao Kai suddenly thought of a matter, and asked with a somewhat astonished expression,

“Mr Zhang, aren’t you…opening a restaurant? There doesn’t seem to be a place for the customers to sit and eat.”

“Customers?”

Zhang Han went into a daze. He also forgot about this matter. After thinking for a while, he opened his mouth and said,

“There is still a small space at the place near the right window right? Place 3 small table there will do.”

Upon hearing that, the corner of Zhao Kai’s mouth could not help but twitched a bit. He felt that Zhang Han was not opening a restaurant at all and was just messing around!

Thus, Zhang Han bought 3 small tables and 6 chairs, spending a total of…1k yuan.

Since it was for outsiders to use, it would be enough as long as the furniture was clean.

At all the stores where they bought things, for the contact information, Zhao Kai’s phone number was used instead of Zhang Han’s. Zhao Kai very seriously took pictures of all the furniture, to be used when making the plans tonight. At the same time, he also guaranteed to give Zhang Han an entirely new restaurant within a week.

After getting on the car, Zhang Han and Zhao Kai exchanged contact information with each other.

Suddenly, Zhao Kai recalled that they did not buy a piano and asked, “Mr Zhang, can I know what kind of piano do you want? I have a friend who works in a piano store. I can help you ask around.”

“Piano……”

Zhang Han muttered to himself. Zhang Han understood quite a bit about pianos. When he was small, he had learned before piano. In the divine world, he also made a piano because he was bored. During the time of 500 years, he would play the piano occasionally. Under such a long time, his understanding towards piano was already very profound.

For the brand of the piano, Zhang Han did not intend to buy a cheap one. Some people would say that a piano’s quality was not in the price of the piano and was in the tone. Zhang Han felt that it was a bunch of nonsense. Just remember you get what you pay for, so expensive pianos were much better than cheap pianos. And if he wanted to live a high quality life, how could he use things that were subpar?

For example, the seven colors serene piano that Zhang Han used back when he was at the Divine World, was made with the divine World’s top quality materials. It could still be remembered that back when Zhang Han played canon variation on a planet, the sound caused the people in the entire planet to be bewitched within it. Even more, if Zhang Han wanted, the piano sound could even be turned into a killing sound and instantly wipe out all life on the planet.

Zhang Han muttered to himself, then said forthrightly,

“Buy a Steinway Model O Grand Piano.”

“Alright.” Zhao Kai did not know much about pianos and straightforwardly nodded his head and called his friend.

A minute later.

“Pfff……how much?” The pitch of Zhao Kai’s voice raised. Afterward, he looked at Zhang Han with a stupefied gaze. His lips wiggled and said out, “Mr Zhang, the piano that you said cost 1.1million yuan. Guaranteed to be a genuine imported product.”

“Good.” Zhang Han nodded his head.

1.1 million yuan was also the market price. Thus, Zhang Han immediately agreed. After passing over the restaurant’s key to Zhao Kai, Zhang Han went to find a hotel to stay at.