Intangible cultural heritage handicrafts, as an important carrier of Chinese outstanding traditional culture, carry deep historical and cultural connotations. As the core place of people’s daily life, housing space provides a new carrier and platform for the inheritance and development of non-heritage handicrafts. By integrating nonheritage handicrafts into the art decoration of modern housing space, it can not only realize the living inheritance of traditional culture, but also satisfy modern people’s demand for cultural quality and aesthetic experience, and open up a new path for the innovative development of non-heritage handicrafts. This study quantitatively analyzes the application effect of non-heritage handicrafts in housing space decoration by constructing the evaluation index system of housing space art decoration and adopting the hierarchical analysis method and questionnaire survey method. The study selected 200 visitors as the survey object, 170 valid questionnaires were recovered, and the overall reliability coefficient of the questionnaire reached 0.967. The evaluation system contains four first-level indexes of spatial layout, aesthetics, affordability and user experience, involving 40 specific evaluation items. The results show that visitors have the highest evaluation of the aesthetics of the artistic decoration of the non-heritage handicraft housing space, with a score of 4.57, in which the color matching harmony score reaches 4.81. The user experience score was 4.48, and the affordability score was relatively low at 4.35. The overall evaluation score of 4.46 indicated that non-heritage handicrafts achieved excellent results in the artistic decoration of housing spaces. The study confirms the feasibility of combining non-heritage handicrafts with modern housing space, providing a practical path for the modernization and inheritance of traditional culture.