The Influence of Using Minimalist Furniture on the Efficiency of the Living Space - Residential Apartments in Sulaimani City as Case Study

Abstract

Raising the figure of population and restricted land for development in Sulaimani leads to the growing of vertical housings and small apartments. Small apartments are a consequence of the continuous growing population and urban housing development. The marketing prices and the growing urbanization oblige folks into less amount of space. Human necessities are still alike or perhaps it is much more than what it used to be. There is a lot of fundamental need to be preserved and achieved to create human wellbeing. The problem of small spaces can be resolved by some ways; however, it is still required for furniture to develop to be more innovative to accommodate small living spaces. Since furniture is a necessity and not luxury, everybody is in need of it. Therefore, living in a small space necessitates minimalist and space-saving furniture solutions to sustain human wellbeing. This paper attempts to explore the Influence of Using Minimalist Furniture on the Efficiency of the Living Space; by means of the variable resulting from preceding studies based on literature had been creating a checklist to measurement minimalist furniture influencing the living space efficiency. This paper concludes that most of the principles of the minimalist approach have been overlooked at, which had an impact on the space efficiency in the living room.