Who would have thought that reading the real estate advertising section of the Houston Chronicle each week would pay off like this? On 27 Jul 2003, I came across an article on cohousing by Katherine Salant. You should check out the entire article, but here are some pertinent bits to convince you this is the real thing: “Each cohousing unit has its own kitchen, and the residents also eat dinner in a common house several nights a week. Almost all the parking is on the periphery of the community . . . The 7,000-square-foot common house includes a wood-working shop, a mail room, a TV lounge, an exercise room and two guest rooms residents can use for visitors. . . . The 32 attached row houses and eight first- or second-story one-bedroom apartments are arranged along two narrow pedestrian lanes and around one courtyard. Each house has a very small front yard . . . ” It’s a neat article—apparently cohousing started in Denmark in the 1960s and came to America in the late 1980s. Isn’t that about when we first came up with the Hub Home concept
Cohousing has been an interest of Terry's for sometime. Terry and George are considering moving to Lawrence to a cohousing development that is in the planning stages but not yet built.
Posted by: Cynthia on August 5, 2003 08:04 AMYeah, but does it have spokes and multicolored cars that we each get to pick. I get the green one!!!
..and will the kitchen accommodate 20 people at one time with fireplace open on both sides (kitchen and huge den)?
Posted by: Kathleen on August 6, 2003 07:46 PM