This research was carried out for the purpose of study on living modes and ways of thinking among residents in detached houses in order to find out how public space in house plan should be designed. This paper consists of an analysis concerning a living room and a space to receive guests. The findings are as follows.
1) A plan which clearly divides living and dining-kitchen areas is selected by those who regard receiving guests as important, whereas a plan without a clear division between the two areas is chosen by those who are more concerned about houseworks. A plan with an independent kitchen and a living-dining space is chosen for spaciousness felt in every-day living.
2) As to the dwellers' unsatisfied feeling for the space, the dwellers with 12-Tatami living and dining room are more unsatisfied than those with 8-Tatami living room are. From this result and the one reported previously, it is supposed that the division into 8-Tatami diningkitchen and 8-Tatami living room gives more satisfied feeling for spaciousness than the division into 4-Tatami kitchen and 12-Tatami living-dining space does.
3) Those who have an independent living room tend to receive guests there. However, ones who have a living-dining room receive guests not only at living corner but at dining corner or in other spaces and their ways of receiving guests are not consistent.
4) There is a strong demand for a Tatami room ad jacent to living, dining, or kitchen space and using for multi-purpose. A Tatami room corresponds with dweller's diverse requests caused by various room conditions and also various living styles of dwellers.
