When I saw Zhang Ayi for the first time, she was lying on the wicker chair in the living room, squinting at Yin Guifang’s "The West Chamber" on TV, in the deep and long-lasting, softly sung of Yue Opera, the house and the past two or three decades. The home-related life flows to the front like a flowing water, and flows to the distance... This is the story of an ordinary person's home in Shanghai, China, which reflects the Chinese people's dreams of life in the past two or three decades.

9 square meters of sour and sweet

"My husband and I were married in 84 years. At that time, I lived in the old-fashioned alley of Shikumen. The walls were white and 36 legs were put in place. The bed was 4 legs, the big wardrobe was 4 legs, and the chest of drawers 4 Legs..." It is in this rough room that looks like a simple decoration now, carrying the simple and warm life of the old Shanghainese in the 1980s.

"I don't want to install it, mainly because the room is too small. The small attic of 9 square meters can be pushed to the wall when the step is too big." Zhang Ayi smiled. "But then again, the room is small but it is also placed." Complete."

Old Shanghai, which is a little older, knows that most of the old houses in Shikumen do not have toilets. Toilets are used, and the kitchen is also more common. The situation of multi-family living together has given birth to a living style of a courtyard-style family.

Women wash vegetables and cook, do not forget to talk about the shortness of the family, the husband and wife of the husband and wife always have the "enthusiasm" to comfort the neighbors, there are always grandsons in the summer and cool courtyard. However, too much public space means that privacy can only survive, and people who are getting along with each other are extremely eager to be eager to get too much attention.

Two years after the marriage, his son was born, and the couple were ecstatic, but they broke their brains for a small space. The original chest of drawers and large wardrobes gradually changed into a more compact and space-saving combination wardrobe, but even then, There was no place to turn around after placing the cradle in the room. Such living conditions and environment were obviously not satisfactory.

45,000 retaliatory renovation

After more than 10 years in the dwelling loft, when the son was able to run in the alley, Zhang Ayi finally ushered in the dawn.

"I have lived in a small house for a lifetime, and I have been divided into two rooms and one room with 70 flats. I have a little money in my hand. Of course, I have to make a good decoration." Zhang Ayi talked about the situation when the demolition and relocation of the house was renovated. "The conditions are getting better." I always hope that my family can be more like a home."

Aunt Zhang’s home now also preserves the thick traces of the year’s elaborate decoration. It is a typical mid-to-late decoration style in the mid-1990s. The exquisite ceiling is decorated with a large decorative lamp, and the wallpaper wall is used instead of a single paint finish. Most of the wood style siding and welting lines of the mid-late 1990s, the family will put a decorative cabinet in the living room.

In addition, the wardrobe is customized, three large cabinets and corners, a row of hanging cabinets on the wardrobe, two rows of hanging bookcases on both sides of the window sill, even the desks are custom-made fixed to the wall. “Unified pink, with matching wallpaper, it was a very good decoration in 1998”

However, at that time, Zhang Ayi’s headache was to choose furniture. In order to buy the decoration lamp of the living room, she and her wife ran through half of Shanghai. The price difference was not much to say. I don’t know which one is good. Later, I can only choose expensive ones. I hope. The quality can be better.

In fact, the price wars and excessive dispersion of the home industry during the extensive development period have also plagued newly married men and women in other cities in China. In Changzhou, Jiangsu Province, Red Star Meikailong Chairman Che Jianxin is trying to solve this problem, build a large home store, bring home brands together, use the "market-oriented operation, shopping mall management" to win the fittest and regulate the market.

“The final decoration cost 45,000. At that time, it was a big expense, but I still felt that if I installed the new home, I wouldn’t live it anymore.” Zhang Ayi recalled.

Modernist happiness

In 2008, his son Jiahui talked about a girlfriend, Yuanyuan, a typical Shanghai girl. The fashion, the sweet voice is a bit awkward, plus some reality. Two years after they fell in love, they finally reached the point where they talked about marriage. In a city like Shanghai, even if there is no developer who “makes a marriage without buying a house, it is equal to a rogue”, the principle of having a house to marry will not be shaken at all.

When the family just entered the stage of watching the real estate than the price selection, Jiahui and Yuanyuan have repeatedly discussed with the decoration company whether the home decoration style is Mediterranean style or American country or modernism. As a person, Zhang Ayi knows that each style of decoration represents the different ideas of the couple for the future.

When the design plan was prepared to purchase furniture, the daughter-in-law directly selected the nearest Red Star Meikailong from Zhenbei Road. Because she likes small S, likes fashion, and likes everything related to fashion.

The floor should be the icon, the mattress should be on the door, the wardrobe should be Sophia to customize in advance, the wallpaper can choose AS or Grammy... When a lot of furniture brands are quoted as a few treasures, Zhang Ayi found 300,000 square meters. The mall has completely become her home.

Aunt Zhang liked and complained a little bit: "The current business is too detailed, the environment is so well arranged, and what space ladders and time trains are used. This is like selling a home. It is like a park playground. ". What she doesn't know is that the shopping mall she is visiting now is the product of Red Star Macalline after 8 generations of upgrades. It is also the world's first park-style home shopping mall, and the same age as her son, Red Star Macalline also 27 Years old.

“The bare white brick wall is matched with large black bricks, gray blue walls and several sets of textured frames. The artificial leather sofa is matched with the leopard cushion surface, facing the black painted TV cabinet... "After the whole modernist style of house decoration, Zhang Ayi knows that the home is the connection point, and the happiness of Jiahui and Yuanyuan has already set sail.

The story of time like this has happened in various places in China. From the point of home life, we can see the changes in social and economic development of the Chinese in the past 20 or 30 years, the history of ordinary people's struggles in life, and the embarrassment of ordinary people's happy life.

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