Abstract
The purpose of this study was to provide basic information for future residential flooring planning by identifying differences in preference for flooring materials of livingroom by characteristics of housewives living in apartment housing and by describing their perception of residential flooring materials and by analyzing their degree of satisfaction with the current flooring materials of livingroom. For this purpose, a survey was conducted by 281 housewives who lives in apartment, and analyzed by using frequency, percentage, mean, factor analysis, χ² test, t-test, one-way ANOVA and Duncan's Multiple Range test. The results of the study were obtained as follows: 1) The most preferred flooring materials was wood in the livingroom. Also, most of the reasons for preferred this flooring materials were good for health and good texture. 2) As a result of typifying housewives' perceptions of residential flooring materials, it was classified into fashoin-pursuit type, personality-expression type, beauty-pursuit type, health-pursuit type and practicality-pursuit type. 3) In the degree of satisfaction with the current flooring materials of livingroom, wood showed the highest level of satisfaction. 4) Differences in the degree of satisfaction with the current flooring materials of livingroom by personal characteristics of residents were analyzed. As results, it was found that the group who were later stage of family life cycle and experienced in replacing the flooring materials showed higher degree of satisfaction with the current flooring materials of livingroom.
