Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Ratio of Common House size to Unit Size

[Elizabeth Stevenson (tamgoddess]

> I don't think there is a right or wrong size.  :-)
> 
> Art Gorski


Well, at least that's what we tell you guys....

However...it does sound like quite a big difference in size...are y'all
planning on sleeping in the CH?? ;o)

I don't know what our average unit size is. But certainly more than 825sf.
Maybe 1100? Our CH is 2300sf. Small for a common house, but then again, we
don't have a guest room. It has never felt too small. I think people get
caught up in making the CH everything to everyone, and it ends up being a
bear to clean, with several rooms going unused as a general rule. Ours is
quite well-used. we have kitchen, dining, sitting rooms, laundry room,
bathrooms, kids' room and a multi-purpose room upstairs that teens can use
and has a tv and other recreational equipment at various times. It's
sometimes the yoga room or a quiet meeting room. We've had guests sleep
there.

-- 
Liz Stevenson
Southside Park Cohousing
Sacramento, California
tamgoddess [at] attbi.com

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