Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: choosing colors

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Patty F Gourley wrote:
> 
> Dear List,
> Tierra Nueva Cohousing is in the midst of choosing exterior colors for
> our common house and individual units.  We have heard that some
> communities find choosing colors to be an arduous process.  Any
> suggestions out there on how we can approach this so we can reach  a non
> contentious consensus?

Hi,
Try this.  
1. Select a team of five people who will choose the colors.  
2. Authorize them to come back to the group with a pallette of three or
five colors. (odd numbers, five is best)
3. Take the whole mess or send them back.
4. Hope that given five choices everyone can find something they like.
or.....
Spend hours and hours arguing from the huge numbers of choices available
from color charts.

Good luck,
John Poteet
Valley Oaks Village 
Chico CA.
p.s. No matter what you choose it will look much differrent up on the
wall.  You never get what you think you're buying.