Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: community clothesline

[Bitner/Stevenson (lilbert]

I was under the impression that a clothesline was an accepted part of the 
usual design process. I'm glad you mentioned it; it wouldn't have occurred
to me. Don't forget to have it near the laundry (or nobody will use it) and
in a place where socializing is natural. Ours is right outside the common
house and on the central walkway.

Oh, and decide where it will be long before move in. People will have issues
about it. Trust me.
--
Liz Stevenson
Southside Park Cohousing
Sacramento
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>From: Arlene Hoffman <ahoffman [at] visualimage.com>
>Subject: community clothesline
>Date: Wed, Apr 21, 1999, 4:56 AM
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> While I was hanging out my laundry on a beautiful spring day,  I thought
> that a community clothesline would be a great place to visit and would
> encourage using the sun's energy instead of nonrenewable energy I know many
> cohousing communities have community laundry facilities. If you haven't
> already thought of adding a community clothesline, you might like to try it.
>
> Then, since the job encourages daydreaming, I also realized that some
> community members could do laundry for other members, either for money or
> in exchange for other work. There may be some efficiency of scale in the
> work, and by trading jobs people can do the work they are best suited to.
> There could even be a paid position as launderer to the community! (We
> toured the Battleship Texas recently. I certainly would not have wanted to
> work in that hot laundry room, pressing all those uniforms. But it gave me
> the idea.)
>
> Arlene Hoffman
> Houston, TX
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