Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: [common house accessibility

[Craig Ragland (craigragland]

Well, not entirely novel... this is how Songaia's common house stairs were
configured back in 2000 when we had to address this...  Everybody goes
outside to move from one floor to the other.

Its actually quite practical - but maybe not for more extreme climates than
Seattle. The "distance" usually seems short enough that even in our "cold"
weather, its not very far. An advantage is that putting our stairs on the
outside allowed more usuable floor space inside, so we have a larger dining
room and/or cafe upstairs, near our kitchen, and didn't bite into our guest
rooms or laundry space downstairs.
Craig

On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 3:49 PM, Ann Zabaldo <ann.zabaldo [at] gmail.com> wrote:

> If this is so, what would it be like to put the stairs on the outside of
> the building and have everyone have to go outside to get from one
> floor to the other?  You see how crazy this can get?  Or, are you
> possibly planning to do this?  This would, indeed, be novel.  Not
> practical, but definitely novel.