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Leerbjerg Lod Voting Every house gets two votes. This allows for partners to disagree on topics. Impressions This is a well established community with families that have been friends for many years. The children have strong bonds that are not common with their other friends from outside the community. The community felt very comfortable and communal, while respectful of privacy and boundaries. In visiting this community, I realized that the difficulty in obtaining contacts for Danish communities results from the fact that Danes living in cohousing are not making any social or philosophical “statements” by their housing choices. Therefore, they do not feel that they need to “share their mission” or explain their lifestyle to others via a website. Nor do they rely so heavily on their websites for recruiting purposes, many communities obtain referrals for new members by word of mouth. While I’d never heard of their community prior to my trip to Denmark, I was glad that my host at Ibsgården had provided me with contacts. It did not seem that they had many foreign visitors/architects touring their community over the past three decades. Although there were no guest rooms in the Common House, each of the residences were large and had private guestrooms.