The Importance Of Spaciousness Designed For The Living Experience.

With a special look at the remote working community lifestyle!

Spaciousness is gracious! Image by toa-heftiba-unsplash

Recently I reflected back to the time when the Boothbay YMCA got a new swimming pool, causing the pool to be closed for about a year in the process. Before then I swam laps in the pool during the off-season when it is too cold to swim at Grimes Cove. Once the pool was open again, I found it such an unpleasant experience to negotiate the dressing rooms designed for people the size of thirteen-year-olds that I found myself dreading going to the pool.

Once there was a spacious dressing room filled with large private stalls where one could comfortably change. The larger space in which the changing stalls were located was quite social, serving a function needed in this town. People engaged in conversations in that wide-open space. The new changing rooms are tiny and there is no surrounding large space inviting social interactions. In approaching the changing rooms one walks by the location of the former dressing room facility which is …