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Altman and Gauvain (1981) explain the division of space in American houses by the dialectic of communality. They claim that the American home consists of private spaces for family members and separate public spaces for receiving guests. Family members use the communal areas such as kitchen, dining room or family room. On the other hand, they receive guests in formal dining rooms and in living rooms (Altman & Gauvain, 1981). The traditional Turkish house carries both private and public meanings. The living area in the traditional Turkish house serves for several private activities such as sitting, eating, working and sleeping (Küçükerman, 1988). The “Sofa” is a common area for individuals to get together and it links the rooms in the house. In the traditional Turkish house, rooms act like separate houses where the “Sofa” is like a street or a public square. The “Sofa” is the place for nuclear families to meet their relatives. It is also the place for ceremonies such as weddings, engagements and funerals (Sözen, 2001) (see Figure 2.4 and 2.5 for the living area in traditional Turkish houses). More recently, Ayata and Ayata (1996) have revealed that in contemporary Turkish houses there are two rooms for hosting guests. One is the family room, in which family members have daily activities such as studying, playing games, watching television and hosting intimate guests such as close friends and relatives. The other is the living room which is a more public place in which formal guests are hosted. In that sense “…the living room stays in between the intimate world and the public domain” (Ayata & Ayata, 1996, p. 42). Another study shows that in the family room activities like sitting, watching television, dining, studying 16
and hosting guests take place. On the other hand, in the living room the main activity is the hosting of the guests. The frequency of the activities that take place in the living room change according to the districts that houses are located (Dülgeroğlu- Yüksel, Aydınlı & Pulat, 1996). Hence, it might be assumed that these activities vary according to the income and social status of the family. Figure 2.4. The living area in traditional Turkish houses (Sözen, 2001, p. 77) 17
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Page 18 and 19: The psychological context of the ho
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Page 22 and 23: Besides their meaning as a reflecti
Page 24 and 25: private uses of the living rooms ar
Page 26 and 27: house (Bachelard, 1969). On the oth
Page 28 and 29: Lastly, the modern type of a house
Page 32 and 33: Figure 2.5. The living area in trad
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Page 36 and 37: understanding, clustering and dispe
Page 38 and 39: Table 2.1. Factors affecting the us
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Page 42 and 43: The housewife who continually rearr
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Page 50 and 51: elements in the living rooms. Activ
Page 52 and 53: Table 3.1. Distribution of age Age
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Page 62 and 63: The intentions for the interior des
Page 64 and 65: Number of Private Living Room Activ
Page 66 and 67: Frequency of Living Room Use Every
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Page 70 and 71: Number of Houses Few Days in a Moun
Page 72 and 73: family rooms, intentions related to
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Interestingly, the wife of that res
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The person whose identity is reflec
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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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Table B.4. Intentions related to fu
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Table B.11. Time spent in the house
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Table B.15. Independent samples t-
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Table B.18. Gender vs. The person w
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Table B.22. Aesthetical objects vs.
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