Perception for housing interior space finishes

Abstract

Housing and housing space has been a place for personal development, recreation and self-accentuation. People that live in unhealthy indoor housing environments are most likely to contract diseases as pneumonia, tuberculosis, typhoid fever and the likes. The need for having a conducive interior housing environment is of high premium for the enhancement of place attachment. How the interior housing environment is perceived by the users of this space environment is also equally significant. This paper investigates how prospective house owners in Yola perceive their housing interior finishing of the three dimensions of the housing interior space. The study was conducted within the theoretical and conceptual framework of means-end chain (MEC) research model. Laddering interviewing technique was employed as methodology for data collection and management. The study found several perceptual elements and orientations for floor, walls and ceiling.