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This study was conducted to evaluate the semantic structure concerning comfortable colors in a living room. Two psychological experiments, one using the semantic differential method and the other using the evaluation grid method, were carried out. Subjects were consisted of students and housewives. From the results of the experiment using the semantic differential method, four factors, namely “variation”, “comfort”, “warmness”, “lightness,” were extracted from the students and four factors, namely “calmness”, “variation”, “warmness”, “lightness,” were extracted from the housewives. From the results of the experiment using the evaluation grid method, there was hardly any difference between the two groups. While calm colors were required for the basic elements of the living room, strong colors and extremely whitish colors were disliked.
