Many residents eat in the common house dining room three or four times a week, and have more intimate family dinners at home the other evenings. Two adults, assisted by one child, plan, shop, prepare, serve and wash up after dinner. Each resident has to cook only once a month. Many residents eat in the common house dining room three or four times a week' Two families share a car, five others own a sailboat together. There is only one lawn mower.
Older kids keep an eye on the younger ones.
Babysitters are never lacking. Afternoon tea after school provides a meeting place for both children and adults. The development process At the outset, the group invited four firms to submit design proposals. Completion of construction came two and a half years after the first planning meeting. Half of the original members had dropped out.