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We purchased this house (first time home buyer!) based on the setup. My DH and I knew that my new career was going to be doing home daycare as that has been my dream since a child. I've worked in a daycare center long enough!
This house was one of the few in our price range with a side entrance which was HUGE on my list. Almost a deal breaker if it didn't have a separate side entrance. LOL. I wanted to keep the daycare completely separate from the home because of how dirty things can get and germs and I didn't want my cats getting hurt by kids.
The daycare families enter through the side garage door and walk down a few stairs to the laundry room which has cubbies and a sign in table. Then the bathroom downstairs is a toddler sized toilet very bare so it's easy to clean! Then the finished bedroom in the corner is the nap room with cots always in place and a crib. Then the bedroom we finished to the best of our abilities is the daycare kitchen with a kidney shaped table, highchair, 1 36" counter space with a matching upper cabinet for meal prep and storage of plates, bowls, cups, etc. Then a mini fridge sits on the floor with a small microwave above it. No flooring in this room except for the concrete which isn't cold. Then the huge livingroom is the main room with areas for reading, baby equipment, changing station, dramatic play, blocks, manipulatives, etc.
When I walk upstairs through the baby gate I'm "home". When I walk downstairs it's like I'm visiting work,
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This house was one of the few in our price range with a side entrance which was HUGE on my list. Almost a deal breaker if it didn't have a separate side entrance. LOL. I wanted to keep the daycare completely separate from the home because of how dirty things can get and germs and I didn't want my cats getting hurt by kids.
The daycare families enter through the side garage door and walk down a few stairs to the laundry room which has cubbies and a sign in table. Then the bathroom downstairs is a toddler sized toilet very bare so it's easy to clean! Then the finished bedroom in the corner is the nap room with cots always in place and a crib. Then the bedroom we finished to the best of our abilities is the daycare kitchen with a kidney shaped table, highchair, 1 36" counter space with a matching upper cabinet for meal prep and storage of plates, bowls, cups, etc. Then a mini fridge sits on the floor with a small microwave above it. No flooring in this room except for the concrete which isn't cold. Then the huge livingroom is the main room with areas for reading, baby equipment, changing station, dramatic play, blocks, manipulatives, etc.
When I walk upstairs through the baby gate I'm "home". When I walk downstairs it's like I'm visiting work,
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