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Study on the Colors of Living Room Sofas by Age Groups

Regrading to the colors of sofas which could be most affected by color factors in home furnishings, this research conducted a survey 100 consumers from 20’s to 60’s in age ranges. The results of the survey are as follows. The first, for the question of how long they use sofas a day, 2 hours accounting for 29% of the participants ranks first. The next second place is less than 1 hour and 3 hours tying 26% of the consumers. In addition, females use sofas more than males. The second, 56% of the consumers respond that the function of sofas is the most im-portant factor in purchasing them and the next factors chosen are a design, a price and a color in order of important factors. The third, the order of preferred materials of sofas is a genuine leather the first (69%), and the next is an artificial leather and a fabric. The fourth, for the ques-tion of what the most important factor in choosing a sofa color is, an atmosphere of a living room takes the top ranking (75%) and a safe option ranks the second and a personal color taste and cleanness are in order. The fifth, for the question of what color of sofas is preferred, a brown color is first ranked (38%) and gray, white, blue, black and red colors are in order. Males favor a brown, a gray, and a black color more than the other colors. Whereas, females show a varie-ty of color tastes like a red, a white, and a blue color. As for age preferences, 20’s favor achro-matic colors like brown, gray, and black whereas 50’s show a variety of chromatic color prefer-ences like blue and red.