Re: Really inexpensive (ha!) cohousing??
From: Laura Fitch (lfitchkrausfitch.com)
Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:53:28 -0700 (PDT)
Hi Mew,

I understand that one of the groups in Ann Arbor used pre-fab construction.
If you can't find a link on the cohousing.org web site, I can try to get you
a contact.

Hope you are well.

Laura


Laura E. Fitch, AIA
Principal Architect

Kraus-Fitch Architects, Inc.
110 Pulpit Hill Road
Amherst, MA  01002

413-549-5799
413-549-7918 (fax)
lfitch [at] krausfitch.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mary Ellen Wessels" <mew [at] mewsic.com>
To: <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>
Sent: Friday, April 22, 2005 11:37 AM
Subject: [C-L]_ Really inexpensive (ha!) cohousing??


> So, after our wonderful most recent group amicably decided
> affordable land was just too hard to come by (alas) - my husband
> and I started joking about "Double Wide Cohousing - the affordable
> alternative!" and then I got thinking - is there any precedence for
> sacrificing aesthetics somewhat but using really inexpensive
> building techniques?  Mobile home cohousing?  I don't know... I'm
> not really sure if pre-fab houses are cheaper (though my sense
> from the little research I've done is that they can be really cheap in
> the "fall apart" sense, modestly priced and decent, or actually of
> pretty high quality and nice but expensive).
>
> Just curious! :-)
>
> Mary Ellen (aka "mew" - who is going to live in cohousing someday
> darnit!) ;-)
> MaryEllen Wessels / Hopeful Romantics
> mew AT  mewsic DOT com
> http://www.mewsic.com
> (802) 985-3165
>
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