Mar 03 2010
The Ideal House of European People
For the first time the Institut d’Etudes et de Promotion de l’Ameublement, il Valorisation Internationale de l’Ameublement and the Institut Français de la Mode have carried out a study in six European countries – Germany, Spain, France, Italy, Poland and UK – in order to define which are the common characteristics and the deep differences in the way of imaging the ideal home. Phone interviews to 4.200 customers have allow to point out that Germany and Spain have the higher number of new houses. The biggest houses, on the other hand, are Italian houses, where the average dimensions are 92 square meters. In Spain and Poland 80% of the population lives in a property house. French, German and Spanish people are those who spend more for their home: in fact they spend the 30% of their budget, followed by the Italians (22%) and English people (16%).
But how Europeans live their house?
A great number of interviewees, mostly English and Italian people, work in the kitchen, while for French, bedroom is the potential room to be dedicated to work. Almost everybody would like to have a specific room to use as an home office, while the bedroom is the preferred room to dedicate to PC and readings.
TV is usually in the living room or in the kitchen: French people are the only one who admit to watch TV also in the bedroom.
For all Europeans, sofas are the furnishing that cannot be renounced, even if it’s addressed to different uses: for English and German people it’s the place of relaxation, for Italians is a provisional bed and for Polish an habitual bed.
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