Holy, wow!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I want... no I am getting one of these when I build my house!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I don't want to spoil it, read everything on the site

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Okay, now for those who read up on it, is that not the sweetest thing you ever saw?! I mean flip through the catalog, page 4 has all the opening mechanisms

 

 

 

Dibs on the clock, that when set to midnight, leads to a hidden staircase \

A long time ago on some 'best custom homes' show here in AU, some guy had built himself a castle, and half the doors to the bed rooms where like that. It was awesome :D

Ah, but alas it all costs lots of money. :(

Ah, but alas it all costs lots of money. :(

 

 

 

Bah, the bookcase (2nd sweetest one after the clock I would say) is only $4,500.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Houses cost hundreds of thousands, I mean heck an alarm system costs like 8 grand to wire, this is half the cost and I think a lot more secure... not to mention sweet. :wink:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And as the site points out it will drastically increase the resale value of the house.

:shock: That is AWESOME!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I want the traditional bookcase secret passage! I'm SO getting one when I get a house! Thank you! Thank you for showing this to me! :D

I can finally live out my Scooby Doo dreams!

Mhm, i want to be eccentric!!!

I could make one of these. Anybody could, and sell it for 8,000.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Are these automatic? Or Hand-opening?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

EDIT: Nevermind, they are automatic.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

That would be so fun to just have a friend over and ride that up and down :lol:

rofl ya! i want that!!!!!!! i should convince my parents to get me a bookcase opening for my birthday :lol: u walk up the stairs to my bedroom, theres just a big bookcase there instead of a door! rofl my friends would be so confused :-w

Quite possibly the coolest thing to have in your house that I have ever seen.

rofl ya! i want that!!!!!!! i should convince my parents to get me a bookcase opening for my birthday :lol: u walk up the stairs to my bedroom, theres just a big bookcase there instead of a door rofl my friends would be so confused :-w

Yha that would be fun.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It would be more fun to have a wall and a table with a chess set infront of my wall.

My grandmother has 3 secret doors in her house - two of them lead to the same hidden room, one is a bookcase and the other is a spice rack. Another panel of a wall lifts off to reveal a safe. They are nowhere near as cool as the ones on that site though.

In my opinion, there's only two ways to make those things worth it:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1) You build the secret room below your house. The image of a revolving stair is an excellent example, causing the room to end up on your basement. Which you don't have. No, the house does most empathically not have a basement. You don't see a basement door do you?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2) You have a... what are they called in english.... souterrain house? Both floors on the ground level because the house is built in a slope? And then you sort of make a back room into the ground. Depending on where the house is, this kind of secret room would be completely undetectable from anywhere else, yet be able to be quite large. My personal favourite way of making a secret room.

2) You have a... what are they called in english.... souterrain house? Both floors on the ground level because the house is built in a slope? And then you sort of make a back room into the ground. Depending on where the house is, this kind of secret room would be completely undetectable from anywhere else, yet be able to be quite large. My personal favourite way of making a secret room.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Subterranean. That's the way my grandmother's is. It may sound cool but it is a bit underwhelming, it is just a tiny office room. It isn't that cool because it doesn't employ a classic secret-door-opening mechanism like pulling a book or twisting a candlestick - you just push on the door.

In my opinion, there's only two ways to make those things worth it:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1) You build the secret room below your house. The image of a revolving stair is an excellent example, causing the room to end up on your basement. Which you don't have. No, the house does most empathically not have a basement. You don't see a basement door do you?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2) You have a... what are they called in english.... souterrain house? Both floors on the ground level because the house is built in a slope? And then you sort of make a back room into the ground. Depending on where the house is, this kind of secret room would be completely undetectable from anywhere else, yet be able to be quite large. My personal favourite way of making a secret room.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wow, nice idea for number 2. Good points on both, you don't want people to notice the extra wall. I would probably do it in a way that the secret room less than 6x6 feet. Just a small room where I keep all a safe and a shelf/bookcase full of my gadgets.

Call me anti-social, but the way I always wanted my secret room - the entire back wall of the bottom floor of our house is against the ground so to speak - is big enough to stay in, close the door, then just sit there with a good book (and a computer with internet access. If I ever get enough money to do something like this, I'd build it big enough to contain some household servers) until I felt like reemerging into the world again.

Oh I need one of those things. I just wonder if it would creep people out too much. Ah well screw people, I want a hidden basement :D

What do you reckon the best opening mechanism is? I think the bookshelf has to have the book, but the clock hands or the one where you have to knock a little melody is nice since its impossible to find, lol.

I like the chess one, because it is the most far fetched.

Lol, me and a mate were talking about if we ever build a house, we'd get a secret room :lol:

 

 

 

They are pretty expensive thou :(

Coolest thing ever!

 

 

 

Clock and the stairs are too cool. I mean, I'm just so hyped now.

 

 

 

Iris scan and elevating stairs eh!

Coolest thing ever!

 

 

 

Clock and the stairs are too cool. I mean, I'm just so hyped now.

 

 

 

Iris scan and elevating stairs eh!

 

 

 

Yea, its right out of those "Myst" games. Especially the ones where you have to do something, like set a clock, and then a wall panel slides to show a hidden keypad. Enter the right code (usually found in a journal nearby in the games) and suddenly the clock slides back showing a staircase that leads to a time machine or something ^_^

Yea, its right out of "Myst" game.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BLAST FROM THE PAST.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I never could complete that game. :(

I've already sent this link to a friend with a huge Batman collection (up to the point of having two different Batman pinball machines). When he buys his first house, he wants to put his entire collection into a room that can only be accessed in Batcave style.

Id love to put that into my house but unless i built underground and created a basement Burt Gummer style I dont have anywhere to put a secret room :(