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Balineum Lux Aeterna – Roman Bath House
Translation: Eternal Light Bath House
Roman Baths
The Romans loved going to the baths. They went not only to swim but to relax, chat, enjoy a hot sauna, make a business deal, or to gamble. Roman baths were sumptuously decorated places of health, pleasure, and socialising that stood for the Roman way of life.
Many Roman towns had baths, as well as army camps and rich men’s villas. Mixed bathing was not allowed, so usually women visited in the morning and men in the afternoon. Everyone from rich to poor and even slaves was allowed in the baths.
The toilets in Roman times were communal, everyone sat together and did what they had to do whilst chatting with their friends.
A Visit to the Baths
A trip to the baths meant getting gradually hotter.
Palaestra: an open courtyard for exercising.
Changing Rooms: where he left his clothes.
Frigidarium: the cold room. Here the visitor had a cold bath to wash off most of his sweat and dirt.
Tepidarium: the warm room.
Caldarium: the hot room. The hot room was filled was very hot steam, which opened the pores of the skin. Now a slave would scrape off the last of the sweat and dirt with a bronze scraper, called a strigil, and he could soak in a bath of hot water.
Laconicum: an alternative to the caldarium this was like a sauna – hot but dry.
Frigidarium: the cold room. He would revisit this room and be rubbed down with oil.
The Baths were made for a Challenge set at SFUK (link below) and function as a public swimming pool. They have been play tested. The toilet block in the baths themselves are communal, there is a private block at the end of the left patio or you could put toilet doors on each of the internal blocks to make them private if you wish to.
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Custom Content Included
Rustic earth tone floor tiles by triciamanly at SFUK
Mosaic floor tiles 1a-d by fizzbin at MTS https://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=247179
Torrox stone floor 1 moune at MTS https://www.modthesims.info/d/415935
Knot mosaic floor by rmschoon at MTS https://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=164597
Fence from architectural details by kativip at Garden of Shadows https://www.digitalperversion.net/gar…?topic=25799.0
Logs from architectural details by kativip at Garden of Shadows https://www.digitalperversion.net/gar…?topic=25799.0
Vase (fire pit) from architectural details by kativip at Garden of Shadows https://www.digitalperversion.net/gar…?topic=25799.0
Breath of time stone floor by kativip at Garden of Shadows https://www.digitalperversion.net/gar…?topic=22640.0
Breath of time wallpaper dark grey stucco by kativip at Garden of Shadows https://www.digitalperversion.net/gar…?topic=22640.0
Breath of time wallpaper grey stone by kativip at Garden of Shadows https://www.digitalperversion.net/gar…?topic=22640.0
Custom Content Not Included
white roof trim defaults by Phaenoh at MTS https://www.modthesims.info/d/327787
Amali pillows by moune at sims2artists https://sims2artists.com/index.php?topic=3689.0
Landscape 3 clematis 04, ivy 01, lupin 01 by suza at simply styling https://simplystyling.de/homesims2.html
Von trapp kitchen window, diagonal version by leesester at MTS https://www.modthesims.info/d/462362
Lilies by Macarossi at MTS https://www.modthesims.info/d/237912
Short pedestal planter by macarossi https://www.modthesims.info/d/195044
Trading places earthenware jug, tall vase, giant vase by Kate at Parsimonious https://gsimsky.parsimonious.org/arti…ng_Places.html
Atlanta coffee and end table by Kate at Parsimonious https://gsimsky.parsimonious.org/arti…8-Atlanta.html
Souk in the bath sink, toilet and pink recolours by Kate at Parsimonious https://gsimsky.parsimonious.org/arti…_The_Bath.html
Statues: A show of force, Gally de Orleans, Alexia full of hair, Gloria, Phillipe of Aznac by thejim07 at MTS https://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=401296
Stone bench by thejim07 at MTS https://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=328227
Decorative marble fountain by jon119 at MTS https://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=282200
Sundial by claireh82 at MTS https://www.modthesims.info/d/315300
Invisible ceiling lamp (hard light) by nixnivis at Nixed Sims https://nixedsims.wordpress.com/2012/…mps/#more-6105
Roman sets by tarox4sims2 at sims2graveyard https://sims2graveyard.com/download.html
Roman dining table, loveseat big from roman set I (mobel)
Roman chair from roman set II (mobel)
Roman fountain, outside table, outside chair, whirl pool from roman set V (mobel)
Roman pediment from roman architecture (verschiedenes)
Adult Female Roman Slave Doll by xptl297 at SFUK
Patricians and Slaves by by xptl297 at SFUK
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Amazing. This is really fantastic, well done!
This is stunning – you really go out of your way to capture the atmosphere of every theme you build for and it shows!
Thank you – I try my best. Glad you both like it.
I agree with the Ladies,no one could have done it better 🙂 well done hun
Wonderful! I haven’t seen many Roman baths in my life , but the pictures I can remember are not far from these ones. Well done!
Thanks Donna.
Xptl.: The baths are enhanced by your roman sim statues, Xptl, so thank you 🙂
Love the gardens and courtyards!! The rest is really great too 🙂