Özet:

In this study, the color preferences of consumers were studied on the most applied three finishing types on the furniture surfaces. These are transparent finishing, staining, and opaque painting. In this direction, it was targeted to set forth the color preferences, which would be the basis for the user-oriented design applications. A personal interview survey was prepared for gathering data for this study. Some questions took place in the survey to determine color and finishing type preferences of consumers according to their different demographic and economic characteristics. It was contacted with a total of 479 consumers with the random sampling method. The consumers were potential furniture buyers and living in the central counties of Ankara, Turkey. The data collected by the survey were analyzed statistically and the results were interpreted. In conclusion, the color and finishing type preferences of the consumers on furniture surfaces show a variation according to demographic characteristics, such as age, gender, marital status, educational level and income level.

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