About Basements and Foundations:
Posting this as a new thread because the other one discussing solutions to this problem was closed due to its age. Yet there is current interest in finding solutions, so...new thread.
I think I have an easy working example of how this is done (and the verbal instructions make more sense to me now) so in case it helps others, look at the Goth family mansion, in the building adjacent to the pool where there are a lot of windows and steps leading down into a sunken area with a palm tree and some ferns. You can place a basement from the level with the ferns, then go down a level into the basement and add a spiral staircase next to the steps leading down to the fern level.
Then you can make the basement a lot larger without disrupting anything, from inside the basement.
But it does demonstrated the "walls within a foundation" effect that allows for two sets of stairs: steps from main house level into room-within-the-foundation, then stairs or ladder from there, down into a basement, to make this work.
I think I have an easy working example of how this is done (and the verbal instructions make more sense to me now) so in case it helps others, look at the Goth family mansion, in the building adjacent to the pool where there are a lot of windows and steps leading down into a sunken area with a palm tree and some ferns. You can place a basement from the level with the ferns, then go down a level into the basement and add a spiral staircase next to the steps leading down to the fern level.
Then you can make the basement a lot larger without disrupting anything, from inside the basement.
But it does demonstrated the "walls within a foundation" effect that allows for two sets of stairs: steps from main house level into room-within-the-foundation, then stairs or ladder from there, down into a basement, to make this work.
