<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=84591.msg3725858#msg3725858">Quote from: Angzyn on 05-10-2010, 07:02:16</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">**Points to my poor little paint program layout in the first post.**<br/><br/>Can you work with that....also fell free to take it and add things on lol. <br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>Whoa. Wow. That's... excellent! What more do we need?<br/><br/>That looks much more like a town house though, having a narrow street frontage on the left and a deep plot extending back from the road. Its not laid out like a country villa which tended to have plots wider than they were deep with an imposing frontage, so perhaps we could plant the setting inside Rome (where to be honest I do think the gladiator schools would be, one set a few miles out beyond the city's edge would be somewhat cut off from the hustle and bustle of Colosseum life - somewhat like having a New York finance house but not on Wall St but out in Hoboken...).<br/><br/>So that shows a basement floor as well as the ground-level floor, yes?<br/><br/>What is the hortus? A form of courtyard? And what is the function of the balcony at the right hand end and the open space beyond?<br/><br/>Is it your plan to have the basement level as the gladiator school? If so may I suggest it has its own doorway to the street since the only way out I can see is up the steps into the store room and then out via the atrium which would somewhat impinge on private family life. The steps at the far end that come out beyond the hortus might lead to another door?<br/><br/>Where do the slaves sleep? I'm taking it those marked bedrooms are all for family and guests.<br/><br/>I'm delighted to work with this plan, its great, I just have a few questions.