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Do you always make basements in your houses?

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    LuckyissaraLuckyissara Posts: 22 Member
    I usually make a basement, but this new save file I didn't. When my Sims family gets bigger I might have too, since I'm already running out of space lol
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    MrManyIdeasMrManyIdeas Posts: 203 Member
    One of my sims got a tiny sample from a plant. To examine this sample a microscope in size of a truck is needed :s No thank you, I won't build a basement just for that. (Slightly off topic).
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    KathykinsKathykins Posts: 1,900 Member
    I always have basements, unless my sims live on a beach lot. Some times I have a home gym down there, or a study room. But, more often than not I have a basement for storing collectibles and paintings/prints. My sims usually don't have access to the collectible room, because they will spend all their time looking at frogs.
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    cammeray552cammeray552 Posts: 25 Member
    Usually extra bedrooms and bathrooms for expanding family
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    CK213CK213 Posts: 20,559 Member
    This is a young family and I am starting to cozy up their home as they make more money.
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    They really don't need the basement for much now, but I do have the laundry room going.
    Sofia does need to do her yoga down here as the weather is starting to be iffy for doing yoga outside.
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    More activities will be added down here as the family grows.
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    Okto84Okto84 Posts: 211 Member
    Quite often I do build a basement. If it fits the house's age and style, I will. And if I'm making a house like a bungalow it's handy to have the ability to make more space without making the house itself bigger.
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    SmellincoffeeSmellincoffee Posts: 1,012 Member
    I only rarely make basements -- mostly if I'm pressed for space and need room for skilling/crafts equipment, or if it suits the character/story I'm playing. For instance, I had one Sim who was a prepper, so he had a basement with storage racks and stuff like a woodworking table. It was also his 'storm shelter'. I played another sim as agoraphobic, so he preferred hanging out in his basement. Another of my Sims, a villainous vampire, had a very normal 1950s house up top and then his basement was his actual living quarters, along with ....let's say 'accommodations for blood donors'.
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    SimmervilleSimmerville Posts: 11,795 Member
    I'd say less than 10% of my residential builds have a basement. Mostly I add them for story telling. In the early days I often added attics for storing the family's seasonal deco etc, but the inventory is more convenient :)

    Nowadays I add basements to more and more community lots. Because some worlds (*lookingatyousanmyshuno*) comes with way too few community lots, so with basement levels I can add lots more services. I even have underground court house, parliament building and lots more LOL.
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    SERVERFRASERVERFRA Posts: 7,237 Member
    I actually have a few “basement” builds. They are:
    Alice in Wonderland
    Doctor Who’s TADIS
    Skywalker’s Desert Home
    Bunker Dome

    Wonderland needed to be an underground magical place.😍

    The TARDIS so had to be bigger on the inside.😛

    Skywalker’s home had to be below the desert sand.🤖

    Bunker Dome home really had to be underground for some of the survivors in the year 2525 to live in.🙀

    If anyone wants to check out my builds they are all saved in the Gallery under my username name SEREFRAS if anyone’s interested.😉
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    OldeseadoggeOldeseadogge Posts: 5,068 Member
    Almost always unless there is no place to put the connecting stairs in a premade house. First thing in is the private gym with mini bathroom. Other items depend on house size and story direction.
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    OEII1001OEII1001 Posts: 3,682 Member
    Well, yeah. Where am I going to put the coffins? In the master bedroom for just any sim to find?

    No, they are in the basement behind a locked door. What's in there, you ask Mr. I'm-For-Dinner? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. Now go back up to the drawing room all by yourself and wait for me there.
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    Angie1301Angie1301 Posts: 90 Member
    I rarely ever include them. Born and raised in florida, no basements out here.
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