Decoration of shopping centers and repair of premises

Gusevsky Andrey Anatolyevich

Comfort of modern decoration at any time of the year

The shopping center, the shopping complex in the photo, refers to public buildings that are visited daily by thousands of people. They come here with their mood, having a definite desire to get decent service and find in one place all the necessary goods.
Many visit shopping malls deliberately for specific purchases and quickly leave the building. Others can wander around the building for hours and spend most of their time in it, so the interior decoration of the trading pavilions should have and contribute to the comfortable living conditions in this room and is unacceptable when the utilities are disturbed in the building or in its separate part and conditions worsen.

Basic requirements for retail premises

Respectable appearance is important not only for large, but also for specialized stores of exclusive clothing, household appliances, grocery supermarkets and others.
Finishing shopping centers begins with design work:

• The specialist recreates the style of the room, makes it characteristic and symbolic for only one owner.
• He should be easily recognizable and stand out among others like him. For this, memorable, individual logos are developed and used.
• When working on sketches of the future building, the designer should focus on the social status of future store consumers. Important middle ground and a sense of proportion.
  Buyers with medium and low incomes will not go to a too expensive, sophisticated, stylish store, but excessive simplicity and modesty will scare away consumers with high incomes.
• The interior decoration of the shopping pavilion should take into account and use various trifles in the scenery, creating the impression of a store fullness, emphasizing the variety and abundance of goods, their originality and quality.
• Glass showcases, mirrors (seeDo-it-yourself mirror finish according to all the rules), signs decorated in different styles, signs, convenient baskets, exclusive hangers, information about sales brands, help to attract potential buyers.
• Special conditions exist and are presented to the planning and design of individual rooms inside the shopping center. Certain zones that perform narrow functions are distinguished.
  Shopping gallery, game and entertainment spaces, food court area for lunch breaks or the whole family relaxing in the mall.
• The main lighting and various lighting, zoning of the space and well-chosen colors, should cause a positive mood and have customers to rest, so that a person has a desire to please himself with a successful purchase. Especially at sales, when things are completely unnecessary, but the price is such that it is impossible to resist.

Attention: In other areas of the store, buyers want to feel protected and safe, so the task of the designer is a high-quality and well-thought out project.

Engineering systems and communications in decoration

Modern counter without cooling

Finishing and repair of retail premises requires compliance with more stringent conditions during the installation of all engineering systems:

• At the design stage of shopping malls, it is necessary to provide for a sufficient number of emergency exits from the building, to place evacuation plans in accessible places.
• A large crowd of people makes increased demands on electrical and fire safety during initial finishing, and then during scheduled repairs of premises.

Attention: There are special requirements for the protection of buildings from fire, providing a certain location of electrical appliances and light sources.

• Air conditioning and ventilation systems should work without failures, ensuring normal stay of customers in the premises of the complex in summer and winter. Malfunctioning air conditioners can lead to the fact that increased lighting provokes an increase in air temperature to a level that causes negative emotions.
  To exclude dangerous situations, building communications must be properly installed and receive timely maintenance.
• The heating system is tested for equipment density and strength annually after the end of the heating season.
• Water supply and sewerage allow us to comply with sanitary norms and rules, and serve as necessary conditions for the successful operation of shopping centers, supermarkets and just shops. They should be kept in appropriate conditions, therefore they are cleaned at least once a quarter or more often.
• Refrigeration and refrigeration equipment.
• Installation of fire extinguishing systems, video surveillance and burglar alarms requiring care and maintenance.

Features of decoration and repair of retail space

Competition in trade can be judged by stores that are visited daily and are located nearby. Frequent change of ownership, decoration of industrial premises of trading floors, change of shop windows, but the essence remains the same.
It does not matter the assortment of goods, their quality and cost, the owner of the retail space hopes for profit, but at the same time he is looking for an expense item, which can be saved, and most often it is finishing or repair work that damage the image of the room.

Placement of commercial equipment in a small area of ​​the store

The attitude to the store consists of many components and features:

• The interior of the room, resulting from the decoration of the room. Cracked floor tiles do not attract anyone (seeFloor finish: types of material), the smell of rotten products in a stuffy, without ventilation room.
  It is unlikely that he wants to visit this institution for the second time.
• The equipment of the cash node and its location. Is the approach, payment and exit convenient for buyers, or is there an incomprehensible crowd from buyers.
• The location of the fitting rooms and their number.
• Placement of shop windows, their lighting and the location of goods or products.
• Workplace of the seller and his equipment with scales. The desire to place as many products or goods as possible leads to the fact that sellers look like gymnasts, stepping over one board for the right product, and making stretch marks to reach it.
  Not all workplaces of sellers of food stores are equipped with electronic scales, therefore, "life is undernourished, and people weigh." To such specialists, there is also no desire to return, or it is necessary to defend the rights of buyers.
• Organization of storage facilities and utility rooms.

Repair and decoration of retail premises is not done by hand, if there is no necessary experience or skills. Qualified specialists give certain guarantees for their work.

Attention: The managers of shopping malls are preferable to constant cooperation with some contractors, which will save time, money and have a positive impact on repair and finishing work.

So:

• The retail space, visited daily by a mass of people, needs frequent repairs and the use of wear-resistant materials for decoration. The choice of finishing materials is made according to these criteria.
• The malls do not use soft carpeting, which will not withstand such friction and will quickly fail.
• The instruction for the implementation of the design project recommends the implementation of work in several stages.
• The preparatory stage of decoration or repair consists in screeding or dismantling of old coatings, demolition of walls and old partitions, if necessary.
• Plastering and leveling of surfaces is carried out.
• Windows and doors are installed.
• Plumbing is in progress, cables are being forwarded.
• False ceilings are mounted.
• Decorative niches are being installed (seeHow to finish a niche in the wall and in the partition).
• Ceilings and walls are painted.
• Flooring is laid.
• The final operations include the finishing coating of the surfaces of ceilings and walls with paint, the design of floors with a laminate, parquet, floor tiles, if provided by the project. Plinths, split systems, air conditioners, video surveillance systems and alarms are installed.

The final decoration is carried out with branded elements corresponding to the style of the shopping complex and it is ready to receive visitors.