Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: exclusive dinners vs community dinners- Mary Ann

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The dining room is too small, especially when a lot of folks decide to come to 
dinner and/or there are many guests. I don't know what the optimum number of 
seats is. Someone probably has research that can give you some metric.

The room is also noisy, especially when there is a crowd and/or small children 
are involved. Many of our residents are older and noisy rooms are uncomfortable 
for some people with hearing aids. 

While the size is important, also consider how noisy the room will be when 
fully occupied. Too many hard surfaces magnify the noise to uncomfortable 
levels. We're looking into noise abatement solutions now.

Your architect should be able to advise you on both issues.

Mary Ann

On Feb 13, 2012, at 9:47 PM, Jerry McIntire wrote:

> 
> Mary Ann, are your community dinners "overcrowded" because your dining room
> is too small, or is it just too noisy, or ...? As we are planning our
> common house, we would like to benefit from others' experience.
> 
> Thanks, Jerry
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