Toggle navigation
Toggle navigation
Home
DCUM Forums
Nanny Forums
Events
About DCUM
Advertising
Search
Recent Topics
Hottest Topics
FAQs and Guidelines
Privacy Policy
Your current identity is: Anonymous
Login
Preview
Subject:
Forum Index
»
Home Improvement, Design, and Decorating
Reply to "WTF to do with Servant Stairs"
Subject:
Emoticons
More smilies
Text Color:
Default
Dark Red
Red
Orange
Brown
Yellow
Green
Olive
Cyan
Blue
Dark Blue
Violet
White
Black
Font:
Very Small
Small
Normal
Big
Giant
Close Marks
[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I completely get the OP being weirded out. It would bother me to have slave quarters out back too. [b]“Servant” is a euphemism for slave,[/b] if the house is old enough.[/quote] No, it's not. Servants were paid, employees. Additionally, as a PP said, things like back stairs weren't created just to reinforce class structures but to keep coal/human waste/food out of the way. It's not as if servants weren't allowed to set foot in the main stairways, its that the running a giant victorian house required a lot of people doing a lot of work. Just like we have freight elevators now, back staircases allowed for work to be performed without damaging things. [/quote] If the home was built before 1860 these were absolutely not paid employees. And seriously, “work to be performed without damaging things”?! The point was to hide the help. I don’t care what the OP does with the staircase but let’s be honest about history.[/quote]
Options
Disable HTML in this message
Disable BB Code in this message
Disable smilies in this message
Review message
Search
Recent Topics
Hottest Topics
