Make a Fortune and Become Well-off [90] - Chapter 175

The model house was divided into two floors. There was a living room at the entrance. A huge crystal chandelier illuminated the living room brightly and gorgeously.

The living room was large and high. If the living room was high, the area occupied upstairs would be smaller. But if they were showing a house to a client, that European-style gorgeous decoration was still very intimidating.

After Jiang Ning looked at it as a whole, she felt that the decoration did not quite meet her requirements.

When they returned to the sales office, she explained her renovation requirements to Manager Qian in detail, starting with the cabinet at the entrance. The entire wall there was made into cabinets, including the shoe cabinet, and areas for hanging clothes and placing bags. She lived a very simple life in her previous life, and the house only had two rooms. But the more she lived in a small house, the more she understood the importance of storage.

She especially hated how everything was piled up outside and looked messy. She wished she could have cabinets on all the walls in the house so that everything could be stuffed into them.

She also didn’t want the current wardrobe. She told Manager Qian that all the cabinets should be upright. The study room needed a whole wall of bookcases.

“Here, it would be best to have a whole wall of floor-to-ceiling windows.” That would provide good lighting.

Jiang Ning, who had just received the final payment for the second volume of Catcher in the Song Dynasty, was wealthy.

Considering that it was inconvenient for Grandpa Jiang to go up and down the stairs, Jiang Ning wanted to install an elevator. Manager Qian smacked his lips. It was the first time he had heard of an elevator being installed at home. It was only two floors. 

Couldn’t she even climb it?

Because her house was bought before December 1st, there was no shared area cut. The actual area was the same as the purchased area, 156 square meters. If it was divided into two floors, the area occupied by the stairs and corridors would be the final total. The area was estimated to be nearly 300 square meters. Considering that only she and Grandpa Jiang would live in the house, it didn’t need to be too big. The living room was the same as Manager Qian’s model house, and the height was chosen to be 6.2 meters high so that it would not be so depressing for people to live in. The total area was only about 267 square meters.

The study, her bedroom, and the cloakroom were all upstairs. Downstairs was Grandpa Jiang’s room, guest room, kitchen, bathroom, storage room, etc.

Because there were only two people living there, the rooms were large. The living room was very high, the bedroom was large, and the kitchen was also large. After that, there were many cabinets, and the main thing was to stuff everything that could be seen out into the cabinets. Manager Qian’s family lived in a 38-square-meter house. He knew how messy things were in his home.

The appearance of the house was specially designed by the boss with an interior designer from abroad. It was exactly the most popular European-style decoration. But after listening to Jiang Ning’s description, he was still very attracted to her style.

He decided that in terms of general decoration style, he should decorate his own home according to the designer hired by the boss, but in terms of details, he wanted to do it according to Jiang Ning’s instructions.

“Leave it to me to make the cabinets, and I guarantee your satisfaction.” Since he became the sales manager of that community, the sofa factory where his brother-in-law worked also closed down.

After his brother-in-law lost his job and had nothing to do, he could build the wardrobe himself.

 It was just a pity that the housing market in Shanghai was tight. The wood his brother-in-law brought was piled in the yard. The yard was small and there was no place to put things. But for someone like Jiang Ning who didn’t buy cabinets but built them directly, it got simpler. After the interior design was completed, he could ask his brother-in-law to come over to measure the dimensions and send the wood directly to their construction site. That way, he would not have to worry that the cabinets may not fit. If other customers wanted to renovate their houses and build cabinets, he could make a contract with his brother-in-law.

Manager Qian made a rough estimate of the decoration costs. After signing the decoration contract with him, Jiang Ning also gave part of the money to Manager Qian. Of course, she didn’t give the full amount. For the remaining balance, he would have to wait until Jiang Ning inspected the quality. Manager Qian was very interested in her affairs.

Because the houses in the surrounding area all came with a blue stamp of household registration, the houses were sold very quickly. In their community, because it was an apartment, it couldn’t be sold to outsiders. It could only be sold to people with local household registration; local people whose own houses were very small, but local unemployed people dared not buy a house, and they were not willing to come to Hudong to buy a house. People who had jobs were waiting for their work units to allocate houses, and they were not willing to come to buy a house.

Even if there were model houses designed by foreigners, only a few houses had been sold so far.

Even Jiang Ning, who bought two houses from him before and thought she didn’t care about the blue-seal household registration, was asking him about houses with blue-seal household registration.

That showed how easy it was to sell a house with a blue seal household registration.

Those outsiders were not here for the house at all, but purely for the blue seal.

Manager Qian then thought that after Jiang Ning and his own house were decorated, if a customer came to view the house, in addition to the model house, he could also take photos of his own house and Jiang Ning’s house and give them to the customer. For the price of a one-story house, they get the area of a two-story house.

It should be easier to sell the house seeing it renovated. Because he sold houses himself and knew people who sold houses like him, Manager Qian quickly recommended a community to Jiang Ning.

Jiang Ning could only buy based on location. Anyway, that area would be a prosperous central area in the future. As long as the developer was reliable, she could buy any nearby houses.

The price of commercial housing was much more expensive than that of apartments. The unit price ranged from more than 1,000 yuan per square meter to more than 3,000 per square meter. Based on the average price of 2,100 per square meter, a house of 200 square meters cost 400,000 yuan. 

Based on her current financial situation, she looked at the money in her bankbook and directly chose the largest villa to buy.

Yes, the second volume of her novel was also on the market. Jiang Ning also received royalties for the follow-up to the second volume. So her bankbook had a very generous amount.