Retirement cohousing in DFW: The Common House.
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Common House in Retirement Cohousing
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What
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The common house maintains community and keeps it viable. It is the heart of the retirement cohousing community
The common house has two functions:
1. Build and maintain community.
2. Provide spaces for occasional events in the lives of residents so they can cut down the size of their homes.
Although each retirement group decides what roles their common house will fill, almost all cohousing common houses include the following basic functions:
1. A large kitchen with a primary purpose of preparing community meals. Unless the cohousing community is very small, the kitchen is designed for at least two cooks at a time. When the kitchen is not being used for preparing meals, you may find retirees canning, juicing, or sorting co-op purchases there.
2. A large community gathering space used for common meals, celebrations, parties, videos, and more.
3. Restroom areas.
4. Mail pick-up locations which have bulletin boards and other arrangements for internal communication.
There are other functions of the common house which can be included such as:
1. Laundry area for those who do not wish to include a washer/dryer in their individual homes.
2. Office area with fax machine, copy machine, computer, desk area.
3. Guest rooms and baths for visiting friends or relatives.
4. Workshop, hobby and craft spaces.
5. Exercise room, often with work-out equipment.
6. An acoustically isolated room for music and meditation.
The larger the community, the more varied functions the common house might provide with no great expense to any resident..
DFW
Ecovillages
Retirement or Intergenerational
Green Housing and Villages
in many areas of
Dallas-Fort Worth.
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