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Besides their meaning as a reflection of identity, living rooms can also be used for private activities. Using the living room only for public activities is a tendency mostly seen in traditional Turkish houses. Living rooms may carry public and private meanings together but the division of public and private spaces can still be observed in some contemporary Turkish houses. In those houses, there is a separate family room for daily activities and the living room is only used for entertaining guests. On the other hand, there are also houses in which no separate family room exists anymore and the living room is used for both daily activities of family members and for entertaining guests. It is expected that these two different functions of the living room are reflected in the physical elements that are used in it. A field survey is conducted in an upper income case in order to reveal these two different functions. 1.1. The Aim of the Study The main focus of the study is to examine the relationship between activities that are performed in the living room and interior design of the living room. Living room is a stage where dwellers reflect their identity and show it to the outside world. Regarding Laumann and House’s (1970) statement that different performances occur in the living room and the setting of the living room should be in relation with those performances; the relationship between different activities that are performed in the living room and the intentions for the interior design of the living room was examined. 8
Moreover, in relation with the previous literature, the factors that affect the use and the interior design of the living room are defined. According to these factors, the group differences in the use and the interior design of the living room were examined. Among personal factors that affect the activities and interior design gender, occupational status and the time spent in the house were analyzed statistically. The only physical factor that was analyzed statistically is the existence of the family room. Other factors such as social status, age and life cycle were examined qualitatively. 1.2. Structure of the Thesis The focus of this study is on examining the activities that are performed in the living room in relation to interior design of the living room. The first chapter is the introduction which includes the review of the studies that are related to the concept of home. In this chapter, the idea of placing the home in the psychological context is discussed. The meaning of the home in terms of its relationship with the identity of its dweller is also examined. In the second chapter, previous studies about house and its specific rooms are discussed in relation with the binary oppositions and the functions of rooms in the house for different cultures. Mainly, the different functions of the living room and the family room are examined. This chapter includes previous literature about the use of the living room. In the second section, the studies that reveal the public and 9
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family rooms, intentions related to
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Therefore, it can be said that the
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activities and hosting guests. In t
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indicates that older respondents sp
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Interestingly, the wife of that res
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The person whose identity is reflec
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25 20 15 10 Aesthetical Objects Exi
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female respondents. Previous studie
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Figure 3.27. Photograph of a Living
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Figure 3.30. Photograph of a living
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Figure 3.33. Photograph of a living
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then the objects in the living room
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espondents designed their living ro
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Cromley, E. C. (1990). Alone togeth
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Rybczynski, W. (1987). Home: A shor
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12- Salonunuzu oluştururken nelerd
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14- What changes do you plan to mak
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Table B.4. Intentions related to fu
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Table B.11. Time spent in the house
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