Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Choosing Colors

[Chris ScottHanson (chris]

Your architect would have done it for free.  It is part of what you 
paid for when you had them design the buildings.

Chris

On May 3, 2004, at 7:04 AM, DGSCCoho [at] aol.com wrote:

> We (Stone Curves Cohousing in Tucson, AZ), just completed our color
> selections. We hoped to do this ourselves and worked for many months 
> in a team. Brought
> the selections many times to the community to look at and give input. 
> Finally
> in the last meeting of a three meeting process to reach consensus the 
> palette
> was red carded by several members who didn't like one of the colors. 
> Another
> member (who has since left the community) volunteered to chair a new 
> team and
> this attempt was thwarted also. We finally went to a color consultant 
> with the
> understanding that the community would consense on one of the choices 
> she
> gave us. And so it was. I would suggest going the way of the color 
> consultant
> from the beginning. It was costly for us but in the end was the right 
> way to go.
>
> Gina
> Stone Curves Cohousing (being built right now, 14 of the 48 homes 
> remain
> available)
> www.stonecurves.com
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