Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Working from the common house or other common spaces?

[Elizabeth Magill (pastorlizm]

We just redid our guest room to have a murphy bed with desk, so it is
office during the day and bedroom at night. Since guest rooms are most
commonly used weekends, this would be different people.

We have 2 or 3 people who regularly use the common house for their
jobs, it was closer to 5 or 6 during covid.

I personally have a fantasy of putting a work station in our great
room where the dessert table is presently, on our dining niche, in our
front hall, and in the multi-purpose room closet so there would be 5
total available office spaces, and it would normalize the idea that
these spaces are allowable for use.

I'd keep what we have which is that folk who use it for work sign up
in advance and always have the reservation as "flexible" or "open" so
someone else can decide to use the space and the worker is the person
who has to move.

Our goal is to have the common house used extensively, but not so
reserved that others can't use the spaces.

-Liz
(The Rev. Dr.) Elizabeth Mae Magill
Pastor, Ashburnham Community Church
Minister to the Affiliates, Ecclesia Ministries
www.elizabethmaemagill.com
508-450-0431

On Tue, Jun 6, 2023 at 7:48 AM Marilyn Kakudo <mkakudo [at] comcast.net> wrote:
>
> After seven years of anticipation and planning we are in the middle of the 
> construction of our 25 unit cohousing development in Hood River. We are a 
> multigenerational cohousing community currently composed of an equal number 
> of retired and working households. A quarter of our households have children 
> from a future newborn through school age up through young adult. We are still 
> actively searching for members, and have recently experienced a stumbling 
> block for households with very young children and at least one parent who now 
> works remotely from home since the pandemic. We’re having difficulty matching 
> our limited inventory of units to the needs and resources of these potential 
> member households. One solution might be to provide a small office or 
> workspace in our common house that is shareable or schedule-able in some way. 
> Is this something your cohousing community has done or tried?
>
> This outreach is to learn if your cohousing community has encountered this 
> problem and been able to solve it in some fashion. We would love to hear any 
> and all ideas, attempts, successes and failures too, and learn from you. 
> Also, if your community was not able to come up with any solution to 
> accommodate potential member households such as these.
> Thanks for taking the time.
>
> Marilyn Kakudo
> Adams Creek Cohousing
> Hood River, OR
>
> p.s. If you were successful and have time to take a survey, please let me 
> know and I will send it to you. No obligation of course😉
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