Functional Values of Ornamental Plants in Interior and Exterior Home Design and its Effect on Quality of Life

Ahmed, Amira Said ELSayed; EL-torky, Mohamed Gamal; Nowayr, Khamal Hamed; Hassan, Nagwa Adel

doi:10.21608/alexja.2023.316715

Functional Values of Ornamental Plants in Interior and Exterior Home Design and its Effect on Quality of Life

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Authors

¹ Home Economics Extension, Faculty of Agriculture,Alexandria University

² Floriculture, Ornamental Horticulture and Landscape Gardening- Faculty of Agriculture, Alexandria University

³ Medical Research Institute Alexandria University

10.21608/alexja.2023.316715

Abstract

The study mainly aimed to study the functional values of ornamental plants in the internal and external coordination of the dwelling and their impact on the quality of life. To achieve the objective of the study, the study was applied to a shell sample of 300 respondents and their homes and families, whether their homes contain indoor or outdoor ornamental plants or not contain plants at all.
The research data was collected in the field study by means of a questionnaire, the data of which was completed in the personal interview. Its axes included all of the economic, social and housing data of the respondents. And data of the interior design of the residential spaces, data of the respondents’ knowledge, practices and attitudes towards employing ornamental plants in the internal coordination of the dwelling, data of the employment of ornamental plants in the internal and external coordination of the respondents’ dwellings, and data of the quality of family life in its physiological, social, emotional, intellectual and spiritual dimensions.

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