Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Working from the common house or other common spaces?

[Pare Gerou (paregerou]

Hi Marilyn!
Congratulations on attracting a large amount of remote working parents.  We
too hope to attract remote working parents and have designed a generous
coworking space into our common house- complete with a gorgeous view of the
Taygetos mountains, a recording studio for Zoom, and we are locating it
next to our workout rooms and pool.  We have this coworking space in
addition to a very small library meeting space, but if you don't have the
space designated for coworking, then providing flexible spaces for dual
purpose or providing very open concept multipurpose Great Rooms can be a
solution.  I like Marundaka's very open concept Great Room- many options of
what to do in that space during the day (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esxaCyml2PA).  if you can minimize sound
issues somehow and the work does not require silence, this might be an
option.

Pare Gerou
Greek Village Cohousing

On Tue, Jun 6, 2023 at 4:48 AM Marilyn Kakudo <mkakudo [at] comcast.net> wrote:

> After seven years of anticipation and planning we are in the middle of the
> construction of our 25 unit cohousing development in Hood River. We are a
> multigenerational cohousing community currently composed of an equal number
> of retired and working households. A quarter of our households have
> children from a future newborn through school age up through young adult.
> We are still actively searching for members, and have recently experienced
> a stumbling block for households with very young children and at least one
> parent who now works remotely from home since the pandemic. We’re having
> difficulty matching our limited inventory of units to the needs and
> resources of these potential member households. One solution might be to
> provide a small office or workspace in our common house that is shareable
> or schedule-able in some way. Is this something your cohousing community
> has done or tried?
>
> This outreach is to learn if your cohousing community has encountered this
> problem and been able to solve it in some fashion. We would love to hear
> any and all ideas, attempts, successes and failures too, and learn from
> you. Also, if your community was not able to come up with any solution to
> accommodate potential member households such as these.
> Thanks for taking the time.
>
> Marilyn Kakudo
> Adams Creek Cohousing
> Hood River, OR
>
> p.s. If you were successful and have time to take a survey, please let me
> know and I will send it to you. No obligation of course😉
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