Finding a home that combines privacy and social life is no easy task. Single-family homes are often synonymous with loneliness. Traditional roommates, on the other hand, frequently generate tensions between housemates over shared bathrooms, unfinished cleaning and bills, all of which blurs the social fabric. What if coliving was the solution?
Privacy respected
A private space
In a coliving residence, everyone has a private space with at least one bedroom and a bathroom. Sometimes a kitchenette is also available. Every resident has his or her own space, which they can decorate and personalize to their own taste. It’s a space that’s just like them, where no one will enter uninvited, but where they can invite whoever they like. A space that preserves their privacy.
Gone are the days of lining up in front of the bathroom and running into slightly undressed roommates. Everyone’s privacy is protected, which makes relationships easier.
No social obligations
While the whole point of coliving is to live together, you don’t have to. You have every right to eat alone and not join the others if you feel tired, have too much work or simply don’t feel like it.
No one’s going to force you to go to a joint lunch or game night. You control your life. You have the right to be sad, angry or tired. No one will hold you to account. Once again, your privacy is respected.
A social life within reach
Adapted shared spaces
On the other hand, if you’re in the mood to share your day with others and socialize, just step outside your bedroom door. Coliving residences all have fully-equipped kitchens that make you really want to cook. And there’s nothing like a kitchen to start a conversation and forge a bond, whether you’re cooking for yourself or for others.
But the other rooms are also designed to facilitate communal living: large living rooms with several small nooks, a cinema or video games room, a gym… Everything is done to ensure that you can enjoy a pleasant life outside of work, and spend quality time with the other residents. What’s more, we take care of cleaning the common areas!
Communities of interest or lifestyle
Choosing to live in a coliving apartment is in itself a sign of sociability. The roommates you’ll be living with will be open and caring. So it’s easy to make friends and sometimes lifelong friends! Coliving is like creating a second family with whom you can share the good times and the bad.
Some coliving residences go even further, bringing together people in the same professional field (designers, videographers, IT specialists…) or with common interests (sports, ecology, gastronomy…). Roommates will have even more to share, and will be able to advise and help each other professionally.
In a coliving residence, there are ultimately two spaces: the space of “chez moi”, the bedroom, the space of intimacy, and the space of “chez nous”, the common rooms, the space of social life. Coliving is therefore ideal for achieving the difficult balance between social life and privacy.