Cohousing-L Mailing List: Four bedroom units

[Rob Sandelin (floriferous]

One dynamic that I have seen is that people who are moving from a large
single family home to a duplex/triplex model cohousing project is that they
often buy an extra bedroom, to ensure they have enough space. These
"bedrooms" get turned into offices, guest rooms, and sometimes just
libraries or other storage. So because it says bedroom on a plan, does not
mean it gets used that way.

Over time, peoples perceived needs change, and they end up wishing for a
different size space. This goes both ways, some folks wish they had more
room, other wish they had less.

Until you have lived with a commonhouse, which has common facilities, it is
sometimes hard to really commit to moving your personal office stuff to a
community office. This is often true of washers and driers. In fact, lack of
ability to have private facilitates  is sometimes a filter which causes
people to opt out of groups sometimes.

Rob Sandelin
Sharingwood
22 homes, 78 residents of which 10 are renters

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