Is Your Childcare Space.....

[AmandasFCC]

My play room is in my basement and my family never uses that space. The daycare eats lunch in my family kitchen (required by licensing in my area), and they use my livingroom for watching Sesame Street while I prepare lunch.

[Maddy'sMommy]

I use my daughter's playroom as the main area, then my living room as the nap area, and our dining room and kitchen.

I didn't want a basement daycare because I didn't want to have to deal with stairs.

[GotKids]

I use the main floor of my home for daycare. There is a large living room that I use for napping, preschool activities and some of my manipulatives. I also use the formal living and adjoining formal dining room as our play room where I have some interest areas set up. I have a bathroom that is just for the day care on this floor as well and other than the kitchen and eat in dining room, everything is just for their use.

My family escapes upstairs to their rooms or down stairs to the basement for family time.

[themoorethemerrier]

After the first few weeks of watching my first two, we decided that it was best to make the bedrooms off-limits. That only leaves our living room and kitchen for a potential 16 kids!!! This was one of the reasons that we were considering spending big bucks on putting on an addition and finally putting the master bedroom in the basement to free up another room. Worth it? :confused:

[Meeko]

Mine's in a separate home. We moved out of one house and bought a new one...but we use the first one for our day care. My son lives there (he uses two of the four bedrooms...one as a bedroom and one as a living room) and the rest is all day care. Because my son lives there, we are licensed as a family group. (16 kids)

[mom2many]

I have a small one story 1600 ft home that is an open floor plan. I have no off limit areas except for my master bedroom. I have never had the luxury of having a designated daycare area separate from our own family's living space. My daycare is definitely a "home" environment!

The dcks play in my family room/office and the living room that is adjacent to it and we do crafts, preschool activities and eat in the dining room. I have converted our sons old bedroom to my scrapbook room and use that for napping and also use my daughter's old bedroom for napping as well. During the day my home is transformed into a daycare, but come evening and weekends all of the toys, cribs and booster seats are stored away. People are amazed that I do daycare when they come over after hours, because it does not look like a daycare in the least!

[irishdancer]

I have an attached in-law apt. So that is my daycare. Seperate kitchen, bathroom and bedroom. Also seperate entrance so my kids and families never go into my main house. That is the only way I could handle having an at home daycare. I like my space to be my personel space and not have nosy parents or messy kids in it. Also I feel like when I cross that threshold at five that i am away from work.

[renodeb]

My dc is in the middle of my home. It was my dining room until I opened my dc. Its not a very big room but it works.
Debbie