Abstract
The quantity of furniture in the household has increaced in recent years, which has effected the living conditions within the household. In this paper we will discuss this tendency as it is reflected in the statistical date.for a 20 year period, from 1958 to 1978. The quantity of furniture in the household showed a rapid rate of increase during these 20 years, wich the area occupied by furniture increasing 2. 64 times. Although living space had increased over this period of time, the increase of furniture space progrssed at a much faster rate.