DONT have any other space for the kids!!!! It is NOT easy this way. We do have a huge out door area that saves us from insanity. but I would give my right arm for a separate area, no a separate house!!!!! It is such a juggle to have the children in your personal space every hour of every day, they even have to nap in our bedrooms. My children feel invaded, my husband as well. I do have the house set up so, ALL the big toys are kept in the basement they rotate for the kids use. and our living room is big, so the couch is on angle in the corner, all the buckets of toys are behind it, its like a little hide out back there, the kids enjoy it. we also have a couple baskets of books in living room. other than that though, we do everything in our personal home, has been VERY wearing especially on my husband, makes me feel guilty. Eyes are peeled for a CHEAP house, I would move in a heartbeat, days in daycare house, nights at my house!!! dream, dream, dream!~!