Where do you store your butlers?

I think I've only had one butler in game. He had a bed, bath, and sitting room in the basement.

On the main floor right next to the nursery

My one and only butler is with the Bailey-Moons and is also in the basement :/ But the basement is also the place where the Bailey-Moons put everything they want to spend their money on but have nowhere else to store, so it's quite well used.

The only butler room I have in my game is a nicely done bedroom in the basement near the nectar cellar and museum dungeon. Has en suite bathroom and TV and apart from not having any windows it's clean and comfortable. The other option would have been a room in the tower, but it would be much smaller and have a bunk bed instead of a double bed and no en-suite bathroom.

My Sims' butler has a normal room near the other bedrooms (so not in the basement). I didn't put much thought into it, but she's a great butler so I may need to fix it up a bit. I wouldn't put my butler in the basement. :/

Unless the house is large enough, all spare rooms end up in an attic space or basement. This includes butlers and grandparents.

The Fengs in my San Myshuno game are the only family I've really played with a butler.

Butler's room in the penthouse
https://i.postimg.cc/hvGzqF96/penthouse-butler-room.png

It's just off the kitchen. One of those doors on the left leads to a bathroom, the other to the butler's room
https://i.postimg.cc/2SMkp8sq/v-gives-ben-back-wages.png

Before the penthouse, they were in their original apartment. I made a butler bedroom by taking some space away from the enormous first-floor bathroom and the enormous kitchen. I don't have pictures, but it was close to both the kitchen and the front door.

I don't often use basements as living space.

reminds me I have yet to hire actual butler in ts4
(since I am avoiding randomized sims like plague)
but I think it mostly depends on house

sometimes spare bedroom in main floors but often attic or basement cause thats the only space left
and sometimes they get their own servants hall too all downton abbey
preferably i do want to keep them close to where they work though

The last time I had a family with a butler, she had small studio apartment on the second floor of the mansion. It had a kitchen and an exterior entrance in addition to access to the main house through the laundry room. For the curious, that mansion is in my catalogue (Sapphire Shores Mansion 2).

I used those butlers in the past, they mostly got 2x6 bedrooms. Nowadays my nobility have live-in butlers and cooks, meaning they are sims from my game who studied at the Butler Academy and often have a full servant section near the kitchen. Smaller manors have just a butler, while larger estates might have up to 3 servants. The royal palace has too many servants for the household limit, so I constantly need to pretend they are all live-in sims :)