Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Eliminate the 4 bedrooms

[Randy Sailer (randy.sailer]

I would think four bedroom units would be pretty popular. At Rocky  
Hill (non-urban) we have a number of families with three kids or more  
(my blended family has 5 so we have "developed" a 6 br house!).   
Offices in the common house aren't as good as bedrooms for the kids ;-)

Also, the bigger units in our model pay more common costs (both  
development and on-going) so you would have more $$$ to develop your  
common areas or reduce the common cost for all units.

Our architect started with four basic designs and added modules to  
give us lots of variety. I bet that would be possible even with  
standard designs. We have units ranging in size from 1 bedroom to 6  
bedrooms....

Randy


On Nov 21, 2005, at 6:13 PM, cohousing-l-request [at] cohousing.org wrote:

> Message: 2
> Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 08:15:17 -0800
> From: Tim Clark <TimClark [at] 2feetunder.com>
> Subject: [C-L]_ Eliminate the 4 bedrooms
> To: "cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org" <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>
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> We have planned two 4 bedroom units into our 36 unit urban community.
>
> In an effort to standardize and have as few designs as possible we are
> toying with the idea of dropping the 4 bedrooms.  The only thing
> slightly different in our configuration is that we are planning to  
> have
> 4 small offices in the common house.
>
> The mix would be:
> 4 1BR
> 14 2BR
> 18 3 BR
>
> Your thoughts Please
>
> Tim