Heidi-Sparkles
Member
Hi all I'm new here and this is my first post.
I guess I'm slightly different to alot of you and I'm coming at the industry from another angle. I'm actually an Antenatal Teacher which I've been doing really successfully on a self employed basis for about 8yrs. I'm also a massage therapist (11yrs) specialising in pregnancy, postnatal and baby massage. I have worked in a high end clinic in London for a couple of years and then moved back to Wales to work on a self employed basis.
I have a studio in the centre of town (8 rooms, 4 bathrooms) I use the main room to teach my classes and workshops and one of the other rooms as a treatment room (all the others are rented out by me to other relevant practitioners such as reflexologist, baby photographer, physio etc). I've been here for 2 years and I absolutely love doing treatments so I've branched out into facials, mani/pedi, lash lift, waxing etc and developed a whole range of treatments just for mums and mums to be. This has been my dream for a very very long time so I'm happy it's working out. But. (Why is there always a but?!) The stress of running this place and managing everyone's needs and demands is doing my head in. It's a beautiful but old crumbling building with always something breaking. I want to leave and have my own little treatment room at home, preferably a cabin or shepherds hut in the garden. Nothing new there I know - everyone's at it right! I have a panoramic sea view and a separate garden (weird set up I know but I have my house- garden - then a public footpath thing divinding the two - then another garden!) which may work out well as I could have a kids garden and a work garden.
However, my street is not a shiny nice posh one. It's not scummy or anything, everyone is lovely, but if you're working from home do you need the whole place to look fancy?? This is the thing that's really putting me off. I would like to offer all my lovely pregnancy and mummy treatments from the cabin plus one to one birth hypnotherapy and relaxation. Most of my treatment clients stem from my antenatal classes so I get to know them really well but I may have a few that just contact me from nowhere so I still need to make a good impression. I have a £6k budget so could make it really nice (the studio is £6k a year). I may take some photos to see what you all think, I'm so stuck
I guess I'm slightly different to alot of you and I'm coming at the industry from another angle. I'm actually an Antenatal Teacher which I've been doing really successfully on a self employed basis for about 8yrs. I'm also a massage therapist (11yrs) specialising in pregnancy, postnatal and baby massage. I have worked in a high end clinic in London for a couple of years and then moved back to Wales to work on a self employed basis.
I have a studio in the centre of town (8 rooms, 4 bathrooms) I use the main room to teach my classes and workshops and one of the other rooms as a treatment room (all the others are rented out by me to other relevant practitioners such as reflexologist, baby photographer, physio etc). I've been here for 2 years and I absolutely love doing treatments so I've branched out into facials, mani/pedi, lash lift, waxing etc and developed a whole range of treatments just for mums and mums to be. This has been my dream for a very very long time so I'm happy it's working out. But. (Why is there always a but?!) The stress of running this place and managing everyone's needs and demands is doing my head in. It's a beautiful but old crumbling building with always something breaking. I want to leave and have my own little treatment room at home, preferably a cabin or shepherds hut in the garden. Nothing new there I know - everyone's at it right! I have a panoramic sea view and a separate garden (weird set up I know but I have my house- garden - then a public footpath thing divinding the two - then another garden!) which may work out well as I could have a kids garden and a work garden.
However, my street is not a shiny nice posh one. It's not scummy or anything, everyone is lovely, but if you're working from home do you need the whole place to look fancy?? This is the thing that's really putting me off. I would like to offer all my lovely pregnancy and mummy treatments from the cabin plus one to one birth hypnotherapy and relaxation. Most of my treatment clients stem from my antenatal classes so I get to know them really well but I may have a few that just contact me from nowhere so I still need to make a good impression. I have a £6k budget so could make it really nice (the studio is £6k a year). I may take some photos to see what you all think, I'm so stuck