Living Room Coffered Ceiling and Premium Tiles... Public Rental Housing, Comprehensive Improvement of Finishing Material Quality

Application of Finishing Materials at the Level of Sale Housing

Source: LH

Korea Land and Housing Corporation (LH) announced on the 20th that, with the full-scale supply of integrated public rental housing underway, it will revamp the finishing materials system for public rental housing and upgrade the finishing materials to the level of sale housing. The revamped finishing materials will be applied starting from this year's designs.

The main focus of the finishing materials upgrade is on bathrooms and kitchen furniture, which was derived through analysis of post-occupancy evaluation (POE) results conducted with residents.

The primary complaints from residents included insufficient storage space in kitchens and bathrooms, as well as a lack of finishing materials and convenience facilities in bathrooms.

Accordingly, for bathrooms, the bathroom cabinets will be expanded, and the quality of toilets and washbasins will be upgraded. Additionally, the bathroom space has been fully improved by installing shower partitions, rear shelves, and toilet paper holders that also serve as smartphone stands.

Kitchen furniture will also be upgraded considering design and usability. Environmentally friendly and well-designed MMA countertops will be applied, and everyday items such as drawers and utensil hangers will be improved for ease of use. Furthermore, the entrance floor, which determines the first impression of the house, will be upgraded to porcelain tiles that are both well-designed and highly durable.

In particular, for medium-sized rental housing with exclusive areas of 60 to 84㎡ for 3 to 4-person households, the upgraded finishing materials will increase further due to the expanded space size. Basic items of sale housing such as pantries, kitchen furniture (refrigerator cabinets/kimchi refrigerator cabinets and chimney-type range hoods), and living room tray ceilings will be applied equally to medium-sized rental housing.

LH is promoting the project with the goal of obtaining business approval for 59,000 units of integrated public rental housing and starting construction on 16,000 units from this year through next year.

Park Cheol-heung, Head of LH Public Housing Business Headquarters, said, "Rather than simply expanding supply volume, we expect that applying finishing materials at the level of sale apartments in line with the policy direction of supplying high-quality housing will significantly improve public perception of rental housing."

Meanwhile, integrated public rental housing consolidates the previously complex types of public rental housing such as permanent, national, and happiness housing into one, allowing low-income to middle-class households to live for up to 30 years.

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