Nebraska home and mobile salon rules
Can you run a salon from your home in Nebraska?
Yes, with conditions. A salon in your home can be licensed if it is entirely separate from your living quarters, has its own restroom plus a family restroom, and has one connecting door used only by the owner or operator. Below: what a home salon needs, mobile salons (allowed) and house calls (allowed), each answered from Nebraska's own statutes, rules or board pages, read on October 31, 2026, with the state's own words.
- Salon in your home
- Allowed
- Mobile salon
- Allowed
- House calls
- Allowed
Licensed by the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services.The board's site Salon license feesThe state's own words
Home salons
Can you have a salon in your home in Nebraska?
Yes, with conditions. A salon in your home can be licensed if it is entirely separate from your living quarters, has its own restroom plus a family restroom, and has one connecting door used only by the owner or operator.
- Salon in your home
- Allowed
- License it needs
- Salon license
- State fee
- $150
What a home salon needs
A dedicated restroom in the salon, plus a separate restroom for family use
“If you are considering having a salon in your home, there must be a dedicated restroom in the salon and another restroom for family use.” dhhs.ne.gov
Permanent solid-wall separation from all living areas
“Home salons must be permanently separated (by solid walls) from all living areas” dhhs.ne.gov
One connecting door to the living portion of the home, for the owner or operator only
“there may be one connecting door to the living portion of the dwelling as an access entrance to the salon for the owner or operator” dhhs.ne.gov
A client entrance that leads directly from the outside into the salon and is not used to enter the living area
“The entrance used by clients must lead directly from the outside into the home salon this entrance cannot also be used for entry into the living area.” dhhs.ne.gov
Nebraska is one of 47 states whose official pages allow a salon in your home.
Mobile salons
Do you need a mobile salon license in Nebraska?
Yes: mobile salons are allowed, with a license. A mobile salon can be licensed if it is a self-contained, enclosed unit with a sign, a sink and toilet, and at least 150 square feet of floor space, for a $150 application fee.
- Mobile salon
- Allowed
- License it needs
- Mobile salon license
- State fee
- $150
What a mobile salon needs
A self-contained, self-supporting, enclosed mobile unit
“The salon must be a self-contained, self-supporting, enclosed mobile unit.” dhhs.ne.gov
A GPS tracking device on board so the department can track the salon over the Internet (or a weekly itinerary submitted to the department instead)
“Has a global positioning system tracking device that enables the department to track the location of the salon over the Internet” dhhs.ne.gov
A sign clearly identifying the unit as a salon
“There must be a sign clearly identifying the mobile unit as a salon.” dhhs.ne.gov
A functional sink and toilet, with clean water and wastewater storage
“The mobile salon must have a functional sink and toilet and maintain an adequate supply of clean water and wastewater storage capacity.” dhhs.ne.gov
At least 150 square feet of floor space
“The mobile salon must have at least 150 square feet of floor space.” dhhs.ne.gov
Parked safely and legally in a legal parking space whenever clients are inside
“The salon must be safely and legally parked in a legal parking space at all times while clients are present inside the salon.” dhhs.ne.gov
Nebraska is one of 39 states whose official pages allow a mobile salon.
House calls
Can you do services at a client's home in Nebraska?
Yes, on conditions. Licensed cosmetologists and estheticians may work in clients' homes only for homebound clients, through a salon that holds a home services permit.
The rule and Nebraska's own words, on the makeup artist page for Nebraska.
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What else Nebraska asks
- If building or remodeling a home salon, you may submit a sketch for pre-evaluation.
- A mobile salon may not park or conduct business within 300 feet of another licensed cosmetology establishment.
- The department must inspect a newly certified mobile salon within six months.
Sources
What Nebraska's official pages say
Each answer above, in the words of Nebraska's own statutes, rules or board pages, read on October 31, 2026. Your city or county may add its own rules for a home business: confirm with the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services and your local zoning office before you open.
- Home salons
“A salon located in a residence shall be entirely distinct and separate from any living quarters”
dhhs.ne.gov “38-1083. Salon; license; requirements.”
dhhs.ne.gov “Before a salon can operate, an application, self-inspection, sketch of the salon, proof of liability insurance, and fee of $150 must be submitted”
dhhs.ne.gov “If you are considering having a salon in your home, there must be a dedicated restroom in the salon and another restroom for family use.”
dhhs.ne.gov “Home salons must be permanently separated (by solid walls) from all living areas”
dhhs.ne.gov “there may be one connecting door to the living portion of the dwelling as an access entrance to the salon for the owner or operator”
dhhs.ne.gov “The entrance used by clients must lead directly from the outside into the home salon this entrance cannot also be used for entry into the living area.”
dhhs.ne.gov - Mobile salons
“Beginning 1/1/2019, Nebraska statutes offer a mobile salon license.”
dhhs.ne.gov “4. $150 application fee. (credit or debit cards are not accepted)”
dhhs.ne.gov “The salon must be a self-contained, self-supporting, enclosed mobile unit.”
dhhs.ne.gov “Has a global positioning system tracking device that enables the department to track the location of the salon over the Internet”
dhhs.ne.gov “There must be a sign clearly identifying the mobile unit as a salon.”
dhhs.ne.gov “The mobile salon must have a functional sink and toilet and maintain an adequate supply of clean water and wastewater storage capacity.”
dhhs.ne.gov “The mobile salon must have at least 150 square feet of floor space.”
dhhs.ne.gov “The salon must be safely and legally parked in a legal parking space at all times while clients are present inside the salon.”
dhhs.ne.gov - Also good to know
“If you are building or remodeling a home salon, you may submit a sketch for pre-evaluation”
dhhs.ne.gov - Also good to know
“A salon shall not park or conduct business within three hundred feet of another licensed cosmetology establishment.”
dhhs.ne.gov - Also good to know
“The department shall conduct an operation inspection of each salon issued a certificate of consideration within six months after the issuance of such certificate.”
dhhs.ne.gov
Questions
Nebraska home and mobile salons, answered
Can you have a salon in your home in Nebraska?
What are the home salon requirements in Nebraska?
Do you need a mobile salon license in Nebraska?
Can you do house calls in Nebraska?
What else do you need to open a salon in Nebraska?
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