Hidden doors and secret passageways

[rrockoff]

A friend of mine pointed me to this website http://www.hiddenpassageway.com/ . It has a lot of great ideas on creating hidden rooms and passageways. It looks like they use HA to activate their projects.

I can think of a few places in my house where it would be fun to add a hidden bookcase door. After all, I have to conceal the entrance to the bat cave. Has anyone done anything like this in their house?

BTW. The sound is a bit annoying on the main page. You can click on the speaker icon in the top right corner of the center box to turn off the sound.

Rod

 

[aehusted]

LOL. I have checked out their site before. I really wanted to do something like this for our walk in closet, but the WAF is just not there. I still plan on doing somethign like this when I finally get around to finishing the basement, but that might be a while.
This company in particular is not really in my price range. I would really like to find some more DIY info on how to set up something like this. I am thinking that it does not really have to be that complicated or expensive to be effective.

 

[rrockoff]

Aehusted,

I did a quick search, and found some DIY hidden bookcase websites that may help you on your quest.

http://www.garymkatz.com/ChartsDrawings/pivot_bookcase.html

http://www.instructables.com/id/Hidden-Doo...shelf/?ALLSTEPS

http://blog.simonshea.com/2005/09/holly-sh...nit-batman.html

http://www.diynetwork.com/diy/shows_wkh/ep...6_38548,00.html

Rod

 

[Sacedog]

We are getting ready to break ground on our new house. When we were designing the plans, I put in a hidden closet for all of the HA / A/V equipment. There will be a floor to ceiling recessed bookcase on a hidden piano hinge.

I liked this idea as I wanted the location of all of the A/V equipment to not be obvious to a burgler, and I needed a bookcase in the den anyway. Two birds with one stone!

 

[Ranger Digital]

sace, great idea! a secret "control" room. I am sure there are stories of a buglar breaking into not only the house but the network can as well and BAM no more control.

BTW, I thought you just moved into your new place?