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Converting a Bed and Breakfast

By Sharon Villines on 15 May 2021 • ( Leave a comment )
Logo: Bed and Breakfast for Sale

Converting a bed and breakfast to cohousing will provide instant living space for early joiners and land to add clusters of tiny houses or a new wing. Wow! How? How do you… Read More

Converting a School Bus: A Home for $9,000

By Sharon Villines on 15 May 2021 • ( Leave a comment )
Interior view of onverted School Bus

  Since the first version of this post on converting a school bus was written in 2013f, Hank Butitta’s school bus has become a popular culture icon worldwide, a TedX talk, and… Read More

3D Printed Houses

By Sharon Villines on 13 April 2021 • ( Leave a comment )
TECLA 3D Printed House in Italy

3D Printed Houses? I have years of printing experience: etchings, engravings, lithographs, and silk-screen prints. Printing happens on paper. Printing is ink transferred to paper — or fabric, sides of buildings, and… Read More

Bumblebee Spaces, Much Too Expensive But…

By Sharon Villines on 12 April 2021 • ( Leave a comment )
BumblebeeSpaces clothing storage unit

… Inspired by Disney’s Mickey Mouse Clubhouse TV show series that showed Mickey and friends operating in different rooms of the same shape-shifting space. — Business Insider The result is Bumblebee Spaces… Read More

Entry Systems for the Common House

By Sharon Villines on 5 April 2021 • ( Leave a comment )
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What kind of door entry system do we need for the Common House? Door entry systems don’t last forever and the technology will become outdated. You will need entry access control for… Read More

Biden’s Funds for Affordable Housing

By Sharon Villines on 2 April 2021 • ( Leave a comment )
Sign saying "Joe Biden's Plan for Housing"

President Biden’s 213 billion plan is one of the most significant investments in affordable housing in the nation’s history. — Nate Berg in Fast Company It was such a surprise to wake… Read More

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Strong Neighborhoods is inspired by the cohousing communities movement, neighborhoods built, maintained, and managed by the people who live in them; and Strong Towns, an amazing organization headed by Chuck Marron, a reborn engineer and city planner.

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