Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: How are your great room and kitchen connected

[Donna F (editor]

Sounds cool, Craig.

Speaking of gathering solutions like this somewhere on the Cohousing.org 
website, we could have a hall of fame for projects large and small that 
celebrate ingenuity and the collaborative spirit that fuels it.

Let's see, what would we want? It would be great to have before and 
after photos, a description of the problem and its solution and of 
course, those scribbled plans and, of course, a photo of the grinning 
(or frowning) "figure-it-out folks". Send them to me if you're game. 
Anyone want to be the editor of our hall of fame? Let me know.

donna
Donna Freiermuth
Editor
Cohousing Magazine
> Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:38:50 -0700
> From: "Craig Ragland" <craigragland [at] gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [C-L]_ How are your great room and kitchen connected?
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> We're really pleased with our, according to code, "operable wall" - it
> slides open and closed - and provides a quite sound-proof barrier for the larger opening. It only 
> has a handle on one side and is heavy, both by design to discourages its use as a "sliding 
> door."It has become something of a symbol to close the wall and generally only used with some 
> intention - for example, we close it when we celebrate residents' birthdays by asking our 
> traditional "birthday questions" - then we open it as the special,by-request deserts are 
> brought to singing and blowing out the candles (we had our first monthly birthdays, just last night)
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> Our wall wasn't rocket science, but it sure was a nice juicy project for our 
> community figure-it-out folks (two architects, one engineer, and one Mr. Fix-it 
> guy). They puttered around with different designs and it was entirely a 
> do-it-yourself project that used two heavy, solid-core doors as the wall.
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> My hope is that these types of innovations find their way onto the Cohousing 
> Website, but that will require more people to jump into the fray and help us 
> transform it into a more valuable resource.
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