Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: great rooms and ommon house spaces

[Dave and Diane (daveanddee]

Hello all,
The size of our great room is good for community meetings but with one 
large room
community dinners can be painfully noisy. I think the 3 contiguous 
rooms/alcoves that
can be used separately would work out better for this function. These 
separate rooms
would not work well for a community meeting, though, so you'd have to 
figure out another
way to handle that. Has anyone tried those sound-absorbing felted wool 
screens from
greatnordicdesign.com?
--Diane(:^|

MARKETING FACILITATOR
JP COHOUSING  617-522-2209
P.O. BOX 420 BOSTON MASSACHUSETTS
HTTP://WWW.JPCOHOUSING.ORG
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On One day in December, 2005, at 06:16 AM, somebody on cohousing-l- 
wrote:


Hi,

> For our great room/dining room, we are grappling with whether we should
> retrofit (or build new) for one large (1000sf+) room or utilize 3 
> existing,
> contiguous rooms/alcoves that could be used separately.  Is the size 
> of your
> great room a good fit for your community?  How is it used and is that 
> size
> dependent?  Do you wish it were smaller or larger?