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Gathering of foremen in Beijing – An innovative trend for interior decoration
北京現場──工頭大會串 裝潢有看頭

While it may be difficult to afford your own house in Beijing, it is even harder to have the house properly decorated. The main reason is that the prices demanded by high-end interior design companies are simply beyond the reach of most homeowners, and run-of-the-mill operations on the streets, though less expensive, are anything but reputable.
在北京除了買房難,房子裝修更是難,主要是高檔裝潢公司的價格讓人難以承受,路邊找的游擊隊又總是不能讓人放心。

As a result, an alternative interior design service is emerging in Beijing and steadily becoming more accepted by the public. Meet the Internet-based Foremen’s Club. This “club” brings together foremen from the interior decoration industry and publishes detailed information such as their areas of expertise and features of their work on the club website. Based on their preferences, clients can contact and arrange a meeting with a foreman to receive a quotation or meet with several foremen from the same club at once, in which case the foremen will compete with one another in terms of factors such as price. Potential clients can then decide on a trusted foreman to carry out their interior design work.
因此,目前在北京有一種新的裝潢選擇正被越來越多的人認可,這是透過網絡為平台的「工長俱樂部」服務,這種俱樂部會集合一些裝修的工長(工頭),在網站上公布這些工長比較詳細的信息,包括他們的個人信息和他們的裝潢特點及所長,顧客可根據自己的喜好選擇,約時間與單一工長面談報價或可以同時約一個俱樂部中的幾位工長,讓他們來一個PK,最後綜合報價等因素,顧客就可以選擇一個自己信賴的工長為自己安排裝潢了。

The Foremen’s Club also guarantees the quality of each foreman’s work. With the guarantee deposits left by the foremen with the club, in the event that clients are dissatisfied with the foremen’s services, the club has the power to compensate clients with the deposits. It is little wonder that these mutually constraining arrangements and mutually beneficial prices are becoming more and more popular.
工長俱樂部還提供了裝潢質量的保證,因為每個工長都有押金押在工長俱樂部,如果該工長的裝潢不能讓顧客滿意,工長俱樂部有權以這些押金賠償顧客。這種相互有制約,價格還相對實惠的方式,開始越來越流行。