Just For Fun...Your Dream Daycare Set Up

[AmyLeigh]

I was playing around on the local real estate sites last night and found one house on the market that has a great set up for a daycare. Big open space right off of the front door, it's designed as formal living/dining room. Across from it was a bedroom (napping room!) and bath. All other bedrooms were on the second story. Nice large kitchen with eating nook and separate family room. Goodness....If I wasn't so underwater on my current mortgage.....

Anyway. If you could design your daycare space from scratch, what would it look like?

[Meeko]

I would want the Disney Imagineers to help design it!

[3myjob]

There's a small rental house directly behind me just across the alley. One of my dcms own it. I plan to look at it next time it comes available. I DREAM of having a separate place to do daycare and that would be perfect!


The house I currently live/do daycare in is getting cramped. When we found out we were expecting our 2nd child we had no choice but to move our bed down in our unfinished basement. My children each have their own very small rooms. We would have had them share but there is literally no room for two beds. The daycare room is now our old master bedroom.

So the thought of having an entire house for my business and an entire house for daycare is an absolute dream

[EntropyControlSpecialist]

Mine is my dream daycare setup.

We purchased this house in October for the purpose of opening an in-home Preschool. We knocked down the wall that led to Preschool Room 3 so it's now plenty spacious.

There's the kitchen, 3 Preschool rooms (that all lead to each other), and the master bedroom downstairs.
Upstairs are 3 bedrooms and our living room.

[melskids]

Deb Curtis and Margie Carter would design the inside, and Rusty Keeler would design the outside.

Ahhhh...a girl can dream.

[godiva83]

The house I grew up in as a child would have been perfect!

I think it was a back or side split. I would live in the top 2 floors where it was a spacious 4 bedroom 3 washroom house and the above ground basement would be the daycare.
The separate entrance was a huge mud room and you would walk back into a large room with French doors with a kitchenette the lower level I would use for sleep, gross motor and washroom.
It was the perfect house

[SunflowerMama]

Mine is my dream daycare setup.

We purchased this house in October for the purpose of opening an in-home Preschool. We knocked down the wall that led to Preschool Room 3 so it's now plenty spacious.

There's the kitchen, 3 Preschool rooms (that all lead to each other), and the master bedroom downstairs.
Upstairs are 3 bedrooms and our living room.

Sounds like a great setup! Do you have pictures?? We're in the market for a new home and the layout and how it would work for daycare is one of the number one things we are considering.

[SunshineMama]

I was playing around on the local real estate sites last night and found one house on the market that has a great set up for a daycare. Big open space right off of the front door, it's designed as formal living/dining room. Across from it was a bedroom (napping room!) and bath. All other bedrooms were on the second story. Nice large kitchen with eating nook and separate family room. Goodness....If I wasn't so underwater on my current mortgage.....

Anyway. If you could design your daycare space from scratch, what would it look like?

The house you describe is actually just like my house. I have a first floor master with bedroom, huge open living and dining space, den, etc. If I was doing daycare when we moved in I would have set up our bedroom upstairs in what is now the play room. I have a great set up for watching kids, and can see and hear everything from both upstairs and down.

My dream setup would be a padded wall and floor room that is totally open, with areas gated off for the tiniest littles, and lots of climbing and play structures. Of course, lot of center areas too.

Makes me want to finish my basement!

[DaisyMamma]

I would love to have a small center.

More realistically I have a 2br apartment in my basement where family is currently living......you get the idea.