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Is living on the nursery premises a wonderful convenience or a source of great stress? Mary Evans weighs up the pros and cons When Sue Kowalski found it difficult to raise the finance to start her own nursery she and her husband opted to fund it themselves by opening the setting from home.

When Sue Kowalski found it difficult to raise the finance to start her own nursery she and her husband opted to fund it themselves by opening the setting from home.

'We bought the house in April 1991 as our family home and Sunbeams opened its doors on 9 September that year. This was before the explosion in nursery care and nobody could see it as a viable, long-term proposition.

'My husband was then in a position to take voluntary redundancy so we used the redundancy money for the conversion. The property is a Victorian end-of-terrace house and we converted the upper floor into a family flat.'

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