Cohousing-L Mailing List: RE: Community Within in MN seeks members

[Kevin Wolf (kjwolf]

On Mon, 5 Jun 1995, Rob Sandelin wrote:
> I gave a presentation at the Simple Living Conference in Seattle 
> yesterday and as part of my interactive presentation a several folks 
> made reference to doing a dinner club as a community activity.  One 
> person mentioned that one group uses a two car garage, which they 
> cleaned up, added a scrounged carpet, some wall hangings, lamps and a 
> couch from thrift stores and garage sales and have created what sounds 
> like a very nice, very low budget "common house" where they do their 
> group dinners 3 nights a week.

During the winter of 1989/90 N St Co-housing ate dinners in a single car 
garage that wasn't nearly as nice as you describe.  We moved from 
potlucks to the garage situation because everyone still felt like they 
had to prepare something for the potluck and a big advantage of meals 
together is when you don't have to think about dinner except show up and 
wash your plate.  What I like about your description of the garage Rob is 
that it sounds homey and comfortable.  Ours was neither but we still 
loved the meals we ate together there.  It was the company not the 
location that made it great. 

I too would like to hear of any stories of even two houses joining 
together.  That is how we started in 1986 and we thought it was a 
tremendous improvement.  Anyone know of other retrofit beginnings?


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Kevin Wolf
724 N St
Davis, CA 95616
phone and fax: 916-758-4211