For the sake of survival, human beings become helpless in overcoming the big loss when they go through in post-disaster period. In order to re-organize the socio- economical life of survivors, the post-disaster period recovery actions should be identified in detail. The construction of post-disaster houses and settlement areas play important roles in these actions. However, post-disaster occupants may have different expectations from their post-disaster houses in relation to their living conditions, social and cultural structures that are required by their previous urban or rural settlements. Therefore, the objective of this paper is to introduce a new perspective on the “design” of the post-disaster houses in rural or urban areas that is appropriate for the user background, needs and preferences. The field study is held in Dinar district, additionally Aktoprak and Gençali villages in the countryside of Afyon. The people in this area experienced an earthquake, have been living in their permanent houses for 8 years. Within the scope of this field study, expectations, reactions and preferences of occupants about the post-disaster houses were compared to their socio-demographic background, living habits and spatial occupancy durations and correlations in variables were explored. These correlations showed us that, the design of post-disaster houses in accordance with occupants’ changing needs and preferences that is appropriate to the regional living conditions is mainly depended on serious design decisions.