Where do you store your butlers?

I’ve “stored” (lol) my butler in the basement more times than not. My most recent butler, employed by Malcolm Landgraab, got a spare bedroom next to the laundry room so that worked out better. Then he won the lottery and I figured he probably wouldn’t continue on as butler, so I moved him out. It’s too bad, too, because he was a really great butler.

I usually store them at the back of the pantry near the canned goods. But the only one currently in my game works for the Garcia-Perez family and has a bedroom with en suite bathroom on the first floor of the house, it’s a decently sized room but I need to redecorate it at some point.

In the closet with a flashlight, coloring book and some sort of easy to clean snack.

Maybe a juice box if they are good. :D
Seriously though, they get a room somewhere with the family. :p

In my decades save, I'm currently in 1907, so almost all rich families have a live in housemaid (aka butler), and I've generally arranged small rooms for them next to the kitchen. They room their bed a, nightstand and a dresser basically. In one of the newest houses it's in the attic and the maid there also have a bathroom and small sitting room area for herself, and there are windows in that attic too, so she's not in the dark.

@Heymitz

"Haymitz;c-18316802" wrote:
But whenever I switch households, the butler changes when I return to the household. Does that happen with anyone else? It's annoying ?

Yes, this is regular. Unfortunately. The game apparently cannot handle multiple households with butlers, they will switch every time. That's why only my main family now actually have a butler, the others have "household members" that are dressed like housemaids but that I control. I prefer the butler, but it's very, very, clear to me that the game can only handle one butler per save and I got tired of having to fight to get Dolly back every single time.

@Lenny_Ogg That would be so convenient, but no. You have to fire the butler and order a new one over and over again, until the game randomly assigns Dolly to your household again.

When it comes to boarding my butlers, I'm not half so thoughtful as the rest of you. I just plop a bed in a corner somewhere and that's where the butler sleeps. I've had a bunk bed in the home gym, an extra bed in the nursery or even a bed in a corner of a hallway.

@Lenny_Ogg Like @Eleri said, there is no way to get her back other than firing the others and hoping for the best until she's back. There are some things you can do to keep her in the first place though, that I've learnt the hard way:

• Only have one butler in the save, let all other butlers/housemaids be part of the household.
  
• If you (like me) use the mod "control any sim" in order to sometimes control the butler when you want them to do something specific, never ever forget to let go of control before exiting the household (she will go to work and not return the next time you load)
  
• Likewise, do not use control any sim at 6am in the morning as she again will be triggered to go to work and leave the household.
  

But I do agree that it would be so much nicer if we could choose our own butler, and if the game could keep track of several ones. I would also love if you could assign them specific tasks, like cook a certain dish rather than just 'a meal' or tell them to clean that particular sink rather than 'a dirty object'. Not to mention set a schedule for them so they got up in time to make breakfast in the morning.

For my current family, I built a little shed in the backyard for their butler. They unexpectedly had triplets so there isn’t any room in the house for the butler.

It's been very long since I used butlers. I deleted the save years ago, but I gave the last butler a medium size house in the back garden so they would have their own private space to relax when off work. They had their own living room, bedroom, bathroom and kitchen.

@Lenny_Ogg They do chores autonomously, but no cooking unless you tell them to, and then you can't tell them what to cook, just to cook and for how many. It can lead to some interesting meals at times. Even though they are autonomous, sometimes I want to direct them to a specific task when it suits me, and then I use "control any sim" to do so. Especially in the morning when I want breakfast on the table for the family in good time.

It really depends on the household that I'm playing.

For example, in a pretty well-off/upper middle class sorta household, the butler will probably get a small en-suite bedroom in the attic or in the basement.

In a really grand/upper class sorta household, I would go the Downton Abbey route and have "staff quarters" complete with multiple bedrooms and kitchen/dining/living areas. This is to simulate having a butler, a maid, a cook and/or a nanny who all have to live together.