Basement set up?

[Crayola kiddies]

Hi congrats on your new house and the reopening of your daycare....I too have my daycare in my basement. We built a new home and designed the daycare at that time so I was lucky enough to be able to have an entrance from my garage directly into the basement. As well hubby put a kitchenette in for me. He bought those preassembled cabinets from home depot and a counter top. So I have one cabinet with doors ( where the plumbling for the sink is)and a drawer stack and then the bar fridge is right beside the drawers and the counter top goes right across all of it And up above I have three sets of cupboards. I have a microwave on a small table right there also. I bought a
full size kitchen table and chairs. The is a full bathroom right
behind the kitchen and the whole kitchen area and bathroom are
ceramic tiles and then the rest is carpeting so it's warm. We have
9 ft ceilings so I don't feel like I'm in a basement and big windows for lots of light. I bought 4 free standing pantries from Canadian tire and I have organized my toys in them and put child
locks on them and each day I open a different cupboard instead
of rotating toys in and out. I have a book center, a doll center, kitchen center, workshop. I have one of those shelving units
from ikea that looks like stairs and has plastic bins to pull out
and that's where I have my puppets, cars, Lego, little people, and otherassorted toys. We do crafts and play doh, messy sensory bins at the kitchen table. So aside from using my bedrooms upstairs for napping I am totally self contained. I love being down there and at the end of the work day my commute is 15 steps upstairs and because i have a separate space I don't feel
like I'm always at work and I think that is important to avoid burnout. My kids also gave their special toys upstairs that they don't have to share and if they don't want to be in the daycare they are trustworty enough that they can just go up and do their own thing.