Iwhen you all make lots for your sims or legacy families do you include basements and what stuff do you guys put?
I play with legacy family The Reeds as they have legacy house - called The Reed Legacy lol and i made super huge basement had like music studio, gym/sauna/kitchen/family area/laundry and hidden room for family vault
But after saw the basement clutters pics and the basement i was like that is perfect basement to have ,so i did my basement and smaller and cozier still now
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And what stuff goes into them? Well...
One basement has: A bar, gym equipment, a piano, a microscope, an easel and the video game motion mat thing, Oh! Almost forgot the bed where the ghost sleeps!
The second basement has: a couch and television and radio; a bathroom, a computer and desk, bookcases, video game motion mat thing, card game table. Also has a child activity table. Guitar.
And the third basement: there's a bathroom, and a room that has gym equipment, there are bookcases, sofas, two computers, a video game motion mat thing, a card game table, a chess table, criminal career reward objects, and stolen things on display, and paintings that one the sims that live there painted.
I like to use basements for laundry, skill building, collections, underground greenhouse, or secrets.
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Sometimes I make basements (or attics) to store collectibles or photographs.
but I try to avoid doing that as much as possible if theres any way to do the thing above ground I most likely will
I also often make it point to myself that normal house basement should not extend beyond the building outline above
ofcourse occult tunnels ruins tombs crash sites and such may break the rule at times but like just general rule that I should not build my castles underground theres plenty room above for that if I so desire
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And I have one basement I use and an abandoned underground subway/ secret night club that sims are living in.
But I generally don't like to go deeper than one floor.
That reminds me of when my sister would go 4 basement floors deep on a 64×64 lot just to increase space 😂😂😂😭😭😭☠
Yes, @maggiemae8135 I use basements in much the same way.
I like to put basements into my houses. I grew up in the Midwest and it seemed like all the older houses had basements. I quite like them. They are a must for my Vampires, of course, and my Werewolves usually have a room in the basement to be locked up when necessary. Some of my basements are very simple, but many are quite elaborate, especially for my Vampires. I tend to go over board with them. I made one smallish house for Batuu where I went completely mad with my 2 level basement; it is waaaay too busy and full of stuff. The weekly bills are dreadful for that one.
However, I don't "always" make basements in my sim houses. It depends on the type of house, and the need for one. Vampires usually get one. So do paranoid sims. And households with more than two or three sims often get basements just for the added space. Houses that look like they ought to have a basement (because of the style of house they are) get one. And if I want to add more rooms after the lot has been in use for a while, but I don't want to change the look of the lot on the surface, basements are a great way to expand while keeping the surface lot the same.
My favorite sim "house with a basement" is the underground bunker I built for my paranoid loner alien. For him, everything is underground, and he loves it.
The building I am playing now came with a basement (off the gallery). It is situated (and created) for the Gibbs neighborhood in Britechester and is a roommate/sorority kind of a building and in the basement is storage, washing/dryer room, an extra bathroom and a social area with seating, bar and the ping pong table along with the bar dart round thingie and also the video game mat. There is also the research machine that one of my Sims got maxing the debate team membership. I love this area of the build and my students that live there use this area quite a bit.
I have also created basements in buildings already in world and did you know that it is possible to position and have a functioning ladders underneath traditional stairs? I did that with one of the Maxis build houses and put the bedrooms of all the teens (well two of them) with a small livingroom area and a bathroom.
For the sims - i find it have basement - cause not enough room upstairs - i make like family area with a kitchen or somethings a music room - for the sims to relax, or gym with sauna. I keep remodeling my house i got from sims game Commodus residence i think its called? and called the Reed legacy - and few of the family members use the same house but change it to their likings.
I tend to use them for the butlers room too, also its usually where I put the gym. I like to add windows looking into the pool too. Although Im a big fan of window wells to create light also (I either use a glass roofpiece to create a flooring or make the window well 3 tiles wide and add the big Blooming Rooms plant thingie as the bars on top look like a safety feature!).
Im currently playing with a vamp mum and 3 kids and even though the house is well decorated they all live in 2 storey basement downstairs! It even has an underground pool for the mermaid kid!LOL