Thanks, Tim. And I remember that we have been asking for these colour samples for a long time.

Binary decisions get tricky in a consensus decision-making environment, as we've seen now on two occasions. Paint colours can't be mixed together without producing a muddy colour no one wants. (And at three-way choice would probably have got even muddier)

I suggest we need to consider how we will make these decisions in the future - I am sure there is a mechanism, like the one Claire suggested, which gives weight to the strength of opinions as well as to what we prefer. I preferred Scoria but I also knew that I would be happy with whichever colour, and would get used to it. For others it may well have been a more important decision.

I also acknowledge that part of the cost of cohousing (was that what it was called in the "Happily Ever After" book?) is not getting your first choice all the time. I think the trick will be making sure that we all have a turn at losing, at being in the minority, at graciously giving in. (And not holding on to that.)

And as an aside, who currently has the copies of "Happily Ever After"? I feel I could be ready for a second read through - and others may not have had a first chance yet.

See you all tomorrow night on Zoom

Anne

On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 9:09 AM Tim Ross <tim@architype.co.nz> wrote:

Hi All,

Based on the feedback from the group I am going to withdraw my suggestion that we consider other colour options for the cladding.

But for the record, I requested cladding colour samples on the 10 Dec 2019 and we only got them last week.

Kind Regards,

Tim.

On Mon, Jun 8, 2020 at 6:45 PM Tim Ross <tim@architype.co.nz> wrote:
Hi All,

As a group which has tried to form consensus on most if not all our decisions I think we need to do better than a near 50/50 split on this decision.

Having seen how the colours looked on site and having had the chance to hear others thoughts I asked painters to provide a couple of brighter red brick colour samples including pioneer red which is the colour used on the corrugated house down the hill.

Choosing the paint colour is becoming urgent but I think it is more important to consider options carefully and get greater buy in than rushing this.

Tim.

On Mon, 8 Jun 2020 at 6:09 PM, High St Cohousing <ucolbuild@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi all,

Thanks to all for taking the time to vote on the colours for the cladding.

The colour with more votes is PUEBLO with 9 votes.

8 votes went for SCORIA
4 votes went to "no preference"
3 were blank: 2 people didn't submit their vote and the DCC unit was blank.

Attached is a screenshot of the spreadsheet taken just now.
I am proceeding to inform the Project Manager/Builders about this.

I also want to apologize for the rush procedure as I don't think that this was a good way of proceeding with these kinds of decisions...
Unfortunately, I was just notified on our site meeting on Friday morning that we needed a decision by Monday.
Thanks to Sander for organizing the spreadsheet and thank you all for your effort to express your preferences with such short notice.

We shall see the colour up in some of the walls very soon...

Thanks,
Maria

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