Everyday life in Plushusene
Focus on what matters – time for what matters
At Plushusene, you live close to others, and there is always someone around. This brings an added sense of security to everyday life.
Residents help each other with the little things – walking the dog, taking in a parcel, hanging a picture or sharing a useful tip. These everyday encounters also create opportunities for conversation, discovering shared interests and forming new relationships.
With a low-maintenance home close to schools, light rail, nature and the city – and, not least, other residents to share everyday life, experiences and interests with – you are close to what matters and have more time for what matters.
Everyday life in Plushusene
Community Coordinator
In each residential community, we employ a community coordinator. The coordinator is the day-to-day point of contact, whose role is to organise activities that engage all groups of residents and foster a sense of community.
Activities are developed on an ongoing basis, based on the residents’ interests and wishes – and usually in collaboration with the residents themselves. In this way, the residents themselves help to shape the community and what takes place within it. The community coordinator also supports resident-led activities, which play a major part in everyday life.
The coordinator is also responsible for showing vacant flats to potential new residents.
“I look forward to meeting you“
Malene Sode Funch
, Community Coordinator in Hedehusene
The shared communication channel
The Plushusene app
The Plushusene app has been developed to strengthen neighbourly ties and make it easy to take part in activities within the community. It provides an overview, encourages participation and brings people closer together – even in the midst of a busy everyday life.
You can also keep up to date via a screen in the Common House.
Your community coordinator will help you get started and is always on hand to help.
Everyday life in Plushusene
Property Services
Each housing community has a dedicated property manager who is closely involved in day-to-day operations and has a good knowledge of the housing estate and its residents.
Property Services takes a structured approach to day-to-day operations within a centralised management system and is responsible for the ongoing maintenance of the exterior of the buildings and the communal outdoor areas, rectifying faults and defects, and coordinating with external partners. Property Services is also responsible for the sharing platform.
Communal facilities
Communal facilities and activities
For us, the Common House is a natural place to meet. The house is open from early morning until late in the evening.
Shared facilities also mean there is less you need to make room for in your own home. You may be able to skip the gym membership, shared tools are available in the workshop, and there is no need to rearrange your home when you have overnight guests.
The outdoor areas are also designed for socialising and activities.
Communal facilities
The Common House
The Common House is the community’s main meeting place. The building, which covers 791 m², is spread over two storeys.
On the ground floor, you’ll find a professional kitchen and dining hall, a multi-purpose hall with a basketball hoop, large screen, table tennis table, badminton net and more, as well as a workshop with workbenches and shared tools such as a drill, stepladder and hand truck.
On the first floor, you’ll find a gym with exercise bikes, treadmills, cross trainers, a rowing machine and a selection of weights; a creative room with space for all kinds of projects; a lounge with a book exchange, fresh coffee and the daily newspaper; a children’s den with a play kitchen, games and beanbags; a shared office for the Community Coordinator and Property Manager; and a large roof terrace.
There are also three guest rooms with separate entrances from outside, which can be booked for overnight guests. This means you may not need an extra room in your own home that is only used occasionally – something worth considering when choosing the size of your home.
Communal facilities and activities
Activities in the Common House
The Common House offers plenty of opportunities for activities. One of these is communal dining, which is optional and paid for by the residents who take part. Here, you can share healthy food, stories, laughter and, from time to time, a kitchen shift with your neighbours.
We have a flexible meal club concept with different roles, making it possible for as many people as possible to take part. If you want to join a meal, you contribute by helping out as part of a cooking group. Often, however, you can simply sit down and enjoy the meal, giving you a welcome break from the practical tasks of everyday life.
The Common House also provides a venue for everything from film nights, talks, ball games, team training and fitness to creative activities, workshops, projects in the workshop, relaxing in the lounge with a newspaper and a cup of coffee, and playing in the children’s corner.
In addition, we celebrate Shrove Tuesday, Halloween and Christmas, amongst other things. There are also flea markets. Yes, we could go on and on…
Communal facilities
Outdoor areas
In the green courtyards, work is being carried out to promote biodiversity and implement biological rainwater management solutions, which channel the water whilst also creating good habitats for plants and insects.
There are two play areas – a playground for slightly older children and an area with a playhouse and a sandpit for the youngest children.
There is also a conservatory and a kitchen garden with raised beds.
Living in Plushusene
Activities in the outdoor spaces
The playgrounds offer plenty of opportunities for climbing, building in the sand and balancing on play equipment.
Throughout the outdoor areas, you’ll find picnic tables where residents can meet for a cup of coffee, enjoy food they have brought along or simply stop for a spontaneous chat. And when the weather calls for a little more shelter, the orangery provides a cosy place to gather and extends the outdoor season.
Herbs, vegetables and flowers are grown in the community gardens – depending on what the Community Garden Group decides. The edible produce from the gardens can be used for communal meals, amongst other things, and the children also have the opportunity to get involved.
Living in the Plushusene
This is what the residents say
We have asked residents how they find life in the Plushusene:
I thought it would be a bit difficult to settle in, as I’m quite shy when there are lots of people together. But that’s not how it turned out at all. After just a few weeks, I knew 40 new people.
Jytte
Resident, Plushusene
I hadn’t actually considered a shared house myself, but it’s just right for both me and my two children. There’s always something going on here. It’s safe and cosy.
Wendy
Resident, Plushusene
Living here is almost as different from my time living a somewhat isolated life in a house behind a hedge as it could possibly be. Leaving my old life behind was hard, but it was absolutely the right decision. I’m enjoying it more than I ever thought possible.
Ib
Resident, Plushusene
The children get to know one another in a healthy and natural way, and both adults and children quickly make new friends within the community.
Daniel
Resident, Plushusene