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From: Rob Sandelin (robsanmicrosoft.com) | |
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 95 14:58:17 PDT |
A couple of folks have asked me about Sharingwoods under construction commonhouse so here are the details. Sharingwoods Commonhouse is a bit over 2,000 square feet. We are going to do much of the construction work ourselves, which may be a bit of an epic, although we have two contractors in residence to be the straw bosses and expertise. We are about 1/4 done so far. Most the space in the commonhouse is one great room, and their is a small alcove near the kitchen which contains storage, heating and one of two bathrooms. There are two front entrances to the building, one coming off the main path and another which opens onto the front patio. The front patio is separated from the playground by a garden strip and will be bordered on one side by our kitchen garden. As you walk in the front door (non-patio) the kitchen is in front of you, the kids room to the right and a bathroom to the left. Our kids space is a half floor (4 feet) below the main floor, near the entrance, so during dinner we will be able to hear the screams but not the giggles (we hope). The bathroom blocks most of the kids room off from the eating space. The kids room has its own door outside into a path to the existing playground. The kitchen is on the same end as the kids room, but above it on the main floor and the scullery is in an adjacent alcove. There is a hole in the wall separating the kids room and kitchen so parents cooking can see the kids. We have built in storage closets for tables and chairs and a small 12X12 basement below the kitchen for deep storage or some other use. The building has lots of windows, 6 skylights and faces into the existing playground. Our ceiling is made of wooden planks and I suspect we will end up sanding and finishing the plywood subfloor and call it our floor. We are self-funding this building project with loans from community members. We started out with a $2,000 per household assessment to create a pool of money to get started and the total project budget is around $120,000. There are several very large wooden beams across the ceiling and we hope the whole affect is one of lodge-like hominess. On the opposite end of the building from the kitchen is a small woodstove and corner lounge which will be separated from the main eating space by movable partitions which have a bulletin board on one side and bookcase or magazine rack on the other. There is a long bench along one side of the entry for removing shoes (we would like this to be a no shoe building to help keep it clean) and the other side is a long coat rack and cubbies for internal mail. Our food service is from a custom made rolling table, allowing access from two lines and we will have rolling carts for dishes as well. The eating space is roughly 25 X 40 feet which we project will hold a maximum of fifteen, six person tables for seating of 90, although we expect regular dinners to be less than that. Some of this is still on paper and what we actually end up with in the end, since we are building it ourselves, may vary somewhat as we go about construction. Rob Sandelin Sharingwood
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