Re: Painting Ourselves to Save Money: good idea or bad idea | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Jock Coats (jock.coatsoxfordshirecommunitylandtrusts.org.uk) | |
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 16:28:52 -0700 (PDT) |
Interestingly we've had in the UK aTV house makeover series recently
where a very bossy woman chartered surveyor on a mission to make
whole streets nicer did get people to work together, on time, on jobs
that would usually only be touched by professionals - such as
rendering and painting a whole row of the outside of terraced homes,
landscaping, fencing and so on.
But *very* hard work. If you can make it work though the clear message was that despite all the tears, tantrums and bickering they were a happier, more cohesive community afterwards! But they were not building their homes - they were trying to achieve six figure uplifts in their property values by sprucing up their neighbourhoods.
Jock On 25 Oct 2006, at 20:34, Sharon Villines wrote:
In my person point of view, people are up for tasks for a limited period of time. For a new group that had not done much work for the community yet (big "yet"), there may be more energy. You need to make decisions about where you want to use that energy. But if a tasks takes several Saturdays, several weekends, etc., unless they just love to paint, people will lose interest very quickly. And there is the problem of incurring construction costs if it isn't done on schedule so the other work can proceed. "Volunteering" under the gun is not fun. Have a back up plan. Sharon ----- Sharon Villines Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington DC http://www.takomavillage.org _________________________________________________________________ Cohousing-L mailing list -- Unsubscribe, archives and other info at: http://www.cohousing.org/cohousing-L/
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Re: Painting Ourselves to Save Money: good idea or bad idea Richard Smith, October 24 2006
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Re: Painting Ourselves to Save Money: good idea or bad idea Richard Smith, October 24 2006
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Re: Painting Ourselves to Save Money: good idea or bad idea Stuart Joseph, October 25 2006
- Re: Painting Ourselves to Save Money: good idea or bad idea Sharon Villines, October 25 2006
- Re: Painting Ourselves to Save Money: good idea or bad idea Jock Coats, October 25 2006
- Re: Painting Ourselves to Save Money: good idea or bad idea Liz, October 25 2006
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Re: Painting Ourselves to Save Money: good idea or bad idea Stuart Joseph, October 25 2006
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Re: Painting Ourselves to Save Money: good idea or bad idea Richard Smith, October 24 2006
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