Prag House Cooperative

After a long member search process, we finally have a full house of 12 members! (two members not pictured)

Also, we've started doing a second monthly low-key dinner. For years now, we've only gathered for quarterly workdays and for dinner before more formal monthly meetings. We have a lot less time commitment requirements than most communities, so this second dinner is a nice way to bring us together a little more :)

Our three Article couches came in the mail last month and we couldn't be happier.

Places to sit and lounge? It's like we're a real house now!

We organized an interior design committee that drew up rough plans for what furniture was needed in each room. After establishing a budget, a group of us met and went through the budget line by line and picked on furniture to order during the meeting. Only people who cared about the furniture came to the meeting, and most people brought links for specific pieces they were interested in.

After two hours, we had decided almost everything we needed. Consensus-based decision making takes time but can be done efficiently.

We got together for another work day earlier in June. Lotsa yard work, as always, and we finally got all of the boxes moved from the dining room to the basement. Looks pretty great in there now.

We're all so very proud.

Work in the basement is edging closer and closer to completion. We recently purchased a freezer, and got our house sound room all set up and ready to use. Purple and green are the Seahawks colors, right?

For our Q1 workday in 2017, a group of us got together and did some yard work. One team dug a trench in the front yard to replace the main water line to the house, and another worked in the back yard, cutting concrete to dig trenches for the last bit of the water reclamation system.

The water system will now receive water from every downspout on the house. The water is piped underground to the sump tank, where it is then pumped into the main tank for our toilets and hose spigots. Because we get so much rain in Seattle, we have another underground pipe that acts as a tank overflow and moves water to the site of a rain garden on the north side o the house. Who knew rain water systems could be so easy?

The exterior painting is finished and the scaffolding has been taken down. We chose a dark blue with white accents to give the house a bit more visual depth than we had before, and our architect at Board and Vellum suggested that to do the 'X's in the dark blue as well.

The painted X's have been a point of contention with the house. Some members may or may not be mounting a secret plan to make them disappear in the night...