Home Sweet Home at Pacific Gardens
Life on the Home-Front – by Susana Michaelis
For those of you who are holidaying or living away right now, here is a tidbit of what is happening on the homefront. Kari, Kathryn, Sharon and Judy have been busy moving into their units. Mia, Tim and I have all camped [...]
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Moving Day
Hurray! The first residents of Pacific Gardens Cohousing are preparing to move in to their new homes in a few weeks. After years of planning, the dream finally becomes a reality.
Pacific Gardens Cohousing Units for Sale*
Now that Pacific Gardens Cohousing Community [...]
by Skylark Disraeli
As a self-employed single parent, the cost of co-housing seemed prohibitive. Ultimately, I located a situation that worked and leapt at the opportunity. I haven’t regretted it. Not only has cohousing turned out to be as affordable as I’d hoped, I’ve actually experienced a series of what I think of as financial windfalls. [...]
Top Ten Reasons People Are Filling Pacific Gardens Cohousing Community
Published by May 19th, 2009 in Blog. 0 Comments1. Nanaimo is a beautiful, newly revitalized, ocean-side city with a thriving culture and a university.
2. All but a handful of cohousing units in all of B.C. are OCCUPIED and Pacific Gardens offers a rare Vancouver Island location.
3. Current interest rates are unbelievable.
4. Pacific Gardens Cohousing Community owners are lovely, funny, caring, proactive people: A [...]
Excitement is in the Air!
By Susana Michaelis
Spring has sprung and there are fragrant purple violets blooming in profusion down by the river bank! Fawn lilies and trillium will be joining the colourful show. Fluorescent green tree frogs add their chorus to the birds that are singing their spring songs. Trees [...]
(IssuesMagazine.net) – by Skylark Disraeli
Every one of my former partners has been right: I’m a controller. But after endless attempts to eradicate this trait, I have ultimately located an environment that relishes it!
Over the past two decades, I have dipped my toes into countless types of relationship and at least as many styles of accommodation. [...]
Co-Housing, the modern incarnation of communal living?
How well do you know your neighbours? If you’re like most of us, not that well. Unless of course you’re involved in the co-housing movement. It’s kind of the modern incarnation of the commune – without the wife swapping, presumably. I’ll talk to a couple of folks who live [...]
Cohousing developments are thriving in B.C. and their residents, called “cohos,” are challenging notions of what family and sustainability mean
Elaine O’Connor, The Province
Published: Sunday, July 27, 2008
When Susana Michaelis was looking to buy a house she knew what she didn’t want: a home in a subdivision that was car-dependent and cut off from neighbours. So in [...]
Construction Progress
Framing is nearly complete on the first two levels and the contractors have begun framing the third floor. Timber framing in the central core area is in progress and the roof installation is scheduled for mid-August. The owners are busy making a gazillion decisions regarding flooring, appliances, countertops, [...]
Construction Progress
Construction is moving along at a brisk pace. The foundations and the concrete slabs are completed as is the lower wall framing. The Second/Main floor framing is nearly complete and the second floor wall framing is 20% complete. Off-site road works are in progress and the site rough [...]