Sunk In Living Room?

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Hi Chi! You made it upstairs to your Sims!!! I hope this means you’re feeling a bit better? 🙂

The trick to a sunken room is to use a foundation, then remove the foundation from the area that you want to sink. You can add walls all around (even in the sunk bit) and don’t forget the stairs.

Have fun! 😉

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It’s OK Chi (I might not have seen it in the forum…)
I don’t have a tute link but, here is a step-by-step that might help 😉

Go ahead and build your house as you want it (on a foundation – any foundation works, but I think the brick one suits this style of house the best) …just put in a regular living room wherever you want it to be – on the ground/1st floor. Don’t add furniture yet, though. Be sure, within the living room space, you have an area designated for the stairs.

OK? OK. Now to sink the living room: just take the sledgehammer or use the foundation tool + “Ctrl” to remove the foundation from the living room area. You should have a big whole with grass terrain showing now in the middle of your house. This is your new sunken living room. Put whatever floor you want on top of that grass, and wallpaper over the ‘brick’ foundation so it matches the other walls in your house. Add a set of the modular stairs so your sims can get down there – add your furniture… and voila! A sunken living room.

A note about lights – because the game thinks this is a whole ‘nother ‘level’ of your house, any lighting that you put above the sunk area will not light up the sunk area. Even if you put a floor lamp down in the sunken area – the light effect will still be above the foundation. So, hide a few of the garden spotlights under your couch (down in the sunken area) or, if you have AL, shift a few of the wall lights down to the sunken foundation/walls.

I hope this helps (I tend to ramble… and not always make sense LOL!) And, here are a few examples that I’ve made:
Sunken Dining room at the front of the house
Huge sunken courtyard in the middle of the house PLUS a sunken ‘conversation pit’ in the back left corner
Sunken living room on the diagonal – center of the house
Sunken living room with a fireplace on front right side of the house

Please ask, if you’re still having problems – and have fun experimenting!
Hint: You could download a house just to take it apart and see how it was made 😉

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Catherine, you should publish your reply as a tutorial because it’s super good!

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You guys are kidding me – right? I was just so happy that I knew something someone else didn’t, that I jumped in before anyone else could reply…
I’ve never written a tutorial before… is there really NOT a tutorial already out there for this?
I’m usually the last person to figure things out ~ and I usually just mess around until I’ve figured it out all by myself. 😮
But…, I could easily make a picture tutorial for Sunken Rooms – if you really think it would help someone else out.

I’m glad ya’ll liked it 😉
…and Chi (yes, of course you can call me Cat! Please do!!!) I hope you are feeling MUCH better by now; and that you can figure out what I was trying to explain. :09:

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Fab, can’t wait! 🙂

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