Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: On having an oven

[Racheli Gai (jnpalme]

>From Racheli

Hey Steve,
Can I come for a visit? :)

On the issue of flexible design: We found that the minute
you start allowing variations, prices go up.  Flexibility
and affordability are often on a collision course.  This 
necessitate looking really carefully at what areas justify
allowing variations, and in what areas people could make do.

I think that the idea of cooking in the CH kitchen - as a regular thing -
is not very practical, unless one lives practically next door  to it
(which I'm not).  There are also limitations since the CH house oven is
used, at least part of the time, for common meals. In addition, there
might be an issue regarding the fact that the community as a whole pays a
part of the electric/gas bills of certain households (I am not saying this
is necessarily a problem,
but some people might view it as such).  I'm all for sharing
of resources, but this strikes me as somewhat far-fetched, at least for
those of us who make regular use of their oven.

R. 

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