Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Selection of cohousing finishings

[Elizabeth Magill (pastorlizm]

We had a team determine three choices of kitchen/BA floors, three choices
of countertops, two choices of cabinetry. We had options for where to put
the cable connection, and could choose to not get the standard stove.
Also there was an optional attic upgrade for the electric.

Then five colors of the homes, the team took our first and second choices
and then assigned colors.
Oddly, you could, for awhile, almost tell where the earliest owners were as
they had almost all chosen red houses.
(We had less than half the homes sold at move-in.)

-Liz
(The Rev. Dr.) Elizabeth Mae Magill
Pastor, Ashburnham Community Church
Minister to the Affiliates, Ecclesia Ministries
www.elizabethmaemagill.com
508-450-0431


On Fri, Sep 6, 2024 at 8:49 AM Chapel, Thomas (CDC/NCIPC/DOP) via
Cohousing-L <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org> wrote:

> To keep the cost down, the builder and some of us came up with a very
> limited selection of finishes---I recall for instance a single paint color
> in all the houses.  Ha. The builder as the time for finishing got close did
> a lot of side deals with individual owners to upgrade some things.  Like
> one person got a fireplace, think we got a choice to not do carpet but do
> laminate flooring on first floor.  And then a lot of people lived with the
> uniform color in the beginning but then re-painted.  We did it within the
> first year I think.
>
> The outdoor colors I don't recall.  Except that we did a lot of polling of
> the community after deciding which blocks of houses would get different
> colors. I do recall that we ended up repainting at least one block when the
> color--once it went up--looked way different than on the patch.  I THINK
> we, not the builder, absorbed the cost of repainting since it was OUR paint
> choice we didn't like
>
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> For cohousers in a newly constructed community or one under/nearing
> constriction, how have members been involved with the builder in
> influencing/affecting selection of unit finishes? Who and how were the
> choices you could make determined?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Alan Friedlob
> Oak Park Commons Cohousing
> Oak Park, IL
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