Senior Living
Senior Shared Living: Companionship Without Giving Up Your Independence
Explore how a thoughtfully chosen shared home can offer everyday company while protecting privacy, choice, and the life you already enjoy.
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26 practical guides to finding your people, sharing a home and building everyday belonging. Explore Senior Living, Accessible Living and Dry Living, plus guidance for renting out a room and creating a shared home.
26 guides
Accessible Living
Accessible Shared Living: More Choice, More Independence, Your Own Kind of Home
Explore how a thoughtfully matched shared household can support independence, everyday connection, and control without turning Bunkmates into caregivers.
Dry Living
Dry Living: Choosing a Shared Home That Fits Your Everyday Values
Explore the practical benefits of an alcohol-free shared home, from clearer expectations to more intentional social time, while protecting privacy and personal choice.
Hosting & Shared Homes
More Than an Empty Bedroom: The Benefits of Renting Out a Spare Room
A spare room can become a useful home for someone else while helping a Host make better use of space, offset some costs, and enjoy everyday company. Here is how to decide whether the benefits fit your life.
Senior Living
Downsizing Into a Shared Home Without Losing Your Sense of Self
A practical guide to choosing what comes with you, protecting meaningful routines, and making a smaller private space feel unmistakably yours.
Accessible Living
An Accessible Home Viewing: Check the Whole Routine, Not Just the Front Door
A practical way to assess entrances, rooms, storage, shared routines, and unanswered questions before choosing a shared home.
Dry Living
How to Agree on Clear, Respectful Boundaries in a Dry Living Home
A practical guide to defining alcohol-free household expectations, protecting privacy, welcoming guests, and discussing disagreements without judgment.
Hosting & Shared Homes
Your Home, Shared Well: Welcoming Bunkmates While Keeping Privacy and Independence
Renting a room does not have to mean sharing every moment. Explore how thoughtful space planning, respectful conversations, and clear boundaries can support a friendly home for independent adults.
Senior Living
Finding Compatible Bunkmates: The Everyday Conversations That Matter
Go beyond shared interests to discuss sleep, kitchens, guests, communication, and the practical routines that make shared living comfortable.
Accessible Living
A Kitchen Everyone Can Use: Inclusive Cooking, Storage, and Shared Tasks
Build a shared kitchen around real routines, respectful food choices, usable storage, and a fair division of household work.
Dry Living
Building a Rich Social Life in an Alcohol-Free Shared Home
How Bunkmates can create enjoyable, inclusive social routines through food, creativity, neighbourhood activities, and invitations that respect different needs.
Hosting & Shared Homes
A More Useful Home: Adapting Your House for Shared Living Without Unnecessary Renovation
Discover how thoughtful use of existing rooms, shared resources and comfortable private spaces can make a home work better for Hosts and Bunkmates, before you commit to major renovations.
Senior Living
Shared Household Costs: A Clear, Comfortable Approach for Older Bunkmates
Understand what is included, organise shared expenses, and preserve financial independence without turning everyday home life into a running negotiation.
Accessible Living
Talking About Access Needs Without Giving Up Your Privacy
Practical language for discussing access, boundaries, support visits, and household decisions while keeping control of personal information.
Dry Living
Finding Compatible Bunkmates for Dry Living Without Intrusive Questions
Ask better questions about household habits, guests, privacy, and communication while leaving medical history, beliefs, and recovery private.
Hosting & Shared Homes
Planning a House Conversion for Shared Living: Build Flexibility Before You Build Walls
A thoughtful conversion can help a home serve changing needs. Learn how to explore the benefits, compare arrangements and establish feasibility before spending on construction.
Senior Living
Your Own Life, a Shared Home: Protecting Privacy and Independence
Learn how private space, clear boundaries, and everyday choice can make Senior Living shared households comfortable without constant togetherness.
Accessible Living
Accessibility Beyond Ramps: Creating a Sensory Friendly Shared Home
Explore lighting, sound, scents, predictability, and communication so shared living can work for a wider range of everyday needs.
Dry Living
Welcoming Guests and Celebrating Well in a Dry Living Home
Plan warm, inclusive gatherings that honour an alcohol-free household, accommodate different guests, and keep hosting comfortable for every resident.
Hosting & Shared Homes
Could Renting Out a Room Help Your Household Budget?
Explore how a spare room could contribute to household costs, with a practical worksheet for income, expenses, uncertainty and the benefits that numbers cannot capture.
Senior Living
A Shared Home, a Wider Life: Building Social Routines Beyond Your Front Door
Discover how shared living can support welcoming everyday contact while leaving room for friendships, interests, and community connections of your own.
Accessible Living
Accessible Living in Ottawa: Check the Journey Beyond Your Front Door
Evaluate transport, everyday destinations, winter routes, and backup plans when choosing a shared home in Ottawa.
Dry Living
The First 90 Days in a Dry Living Home: Routines, Trust, and Respectful Problem-Solving
A practical settling-in guide for Hosts and Bunkmates, with simple check-ins, workable routines, privacy protections, and a calm approach to disagreements.
Hosting & Shared Homes
Your First 90 Days as a Host: Building a Shared Home That Works
A practical guide to welcoming a Bunkmate, establishing everyday routines and creating the conditions for a comfortable, inclusive shared home.
Senior Living
Your First 90 Days in a Shared Home: A Practical Guide for Older Bunkmates
Settle in with a thoughtful plan for move-in, household routines, communication, and the adjustments that help a new shared home feel comfortable.
Accessible Living
A Home That Can Change With You: Access, Visitors, and Future Household Plans
Plan for new routines, different access needs, visitors, repairs, and household transitions without promising that one home can meet every future need.
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