O.k. the house that we currently live in is small...around 900 sq ft...it is more than enough room for dh and I, and we aren't worried about adding a baby to the mix. There is room. So one question is, would the sw think that it is too small?
Also, we have a wash room that basically when we bought the house (it was built in 1930') is falling apart. The door going into the wash room the bottom part has a peice of wood peicing...on the adoption app. it asks one of the question are their any thing that could cause splinters...well...I guess if the kid was messing with it...but I can't see why...we are going to be tearing it down in the next year/year and half and building a new storage area with an attached wash room...so I don't see why it would be a problem if we told the sw that...I just don't want that to be a reason for us not to pass...
It may be a good idea to replace the door now so it's not even an issue. It would be a small expense to make sure your home is completely safe!
I wouldn't worry about the size of your house...military families are often squeezed into 1000 sq ft homes on base with 2 and 3 kids...unless there is a sq ft require on your app. Some countries have that, I'm not sure about domestic.
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I know with our adoption, it was required that we have 40 sq feet per child for their rooms. I think you will be fine and I agree to change the door out now.
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I think you should be fine, as long as there is a bedroom for the baby. I think that the child's room must have 2 exits (inner door and an outside window) in case of fire.
I think I would go ahead and change out the door just so that it is safe. If it's still there when the baby starts crawling it might get hurt...and you never know how long before a baby gets placed with you and once that happens basically the rest of your life gets put on hold! LOL
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See it is not the door...it is the door frame...and it would look odd...the paint on the whole house needs to be repainted...alll though it is not bad, if we did replaced the door frame it would be noticeable and I don't want to be questioned way...oh I don't know...I'll am gonig to talk to dh about it...see what he thinks...
Well I think either way I would see what I could do to make it a little safer.
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What would it look like to just take it off for now? And when it comes time for the home visit just let the case worker know that you are working on remodeling?
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What would it look like to just take it off for now? And when it comes time for the home visit just let the case worker know that you are working on remodeling?
Good idea! We are going to replace the whole thing anyways...my dh did say that it would be no problem to fix that small part...but I just don't want it to look like we are poor or something? I mean we have money...but we don't if that makes sense?
Our house is small, but big enough for us.
Actually I love my house, but, when my family visits all they comment on how small it is, and how we can't possibly have a baby there...so I don't know...it just makes me worried about what a sw might think/say?
We have a pretty small house also and it gets tight with all the baby stuff around, but it all works out!!
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I just wanted to let you know that we live in a 900 sf house with two bedrooms, and I've already talked to the social worker that did our homestudy last time and she said that even us having two kids in this house would be no problem. So I would think you would be just fine with one kid.
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Yet another dumb question...sorry for this... 
