Homebrew Hidden-Passage Bookshelf

thats pretty badass :) When I eventually buy a house, I want to build a secret passage lol
 
build it better then that one. it doesnt look too shabby, but its a little stereo-typical to really fool anyone i would think. ive seen guys build in-wall shelving that opens up to growrooms... and even the local law enforcement never figured it out when they came to raid....
 
Ha.. book shelves are easy - I dug a pit in my basement so I could play "Lambs"...
 
lol @ spacetrader

but yeah this is pretty cool but a little too obvious; what i really want is like the one Bruce Wayne used in Dark Knight where you couldn't even see the fingerprint scanner that opened up the recess in the marble wall - also a tux to go with it and maybe some Batarangs :D
 
Terminus said:
what i really want is like the one Bruce Wayne used in Dark Knight where you couldn't even see the fingerprint scanner that opened up the recess in the marble wall
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like a panic room? ;)
 
the problem with making one of these is to make it a spot where you wouldn't think there was a room, if it has a window then this wouldn't work at all.
 
Pfft, you don't pull a candlestick or open a skull to press a button to open it...
 
Benjamin Linus is gonna be super pissed when he sees these pictures of his house online.
 
First off it needs this:

http://www.amazon.com/Shakespeare-B...ie=UTF8&s=miscellaneous&qid=1246900858&sr=8-6

jjager85 said:
the problem with making one of these is to make it a spot where you wouldn't think there was a room, if it has a window then this wouldn't work at all.
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Yea really it needs to lead to a basement area or something where you wouldn't notice the space missing. Either that or have the door in the basement going into another section that people wouldn't notice.
 
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I'm convinced that every household in America has a torn and weathered Monopoly on a bookshelf.
 
GJSNeptune said:
I'm convinced that every household in America has a torn and weathered Monopoly on a bookshelf.
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by America you mean the whole continent?
nah, i have the official Monopoly game for windows :cool:
 
modi123 said:
Ha.. book shelves are easy - I dug a pit in my basement so I could play "Lambs"...
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It puts the lotion in the basket...

I'm totally building a secret passage in my house. I've always loved them when I would go on historical tours of old places. I got in trouble as a kid cause i would go into them and the tour guide would freak out after I escaped!
 
Langly said:
I'm totally building a secret passage in my house. I've always loved them when I would go on historical tours of old places. I got in trouble as a kid cause i would go into them and the tour guide would freak out after I escaped!
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Try to go to places that don't have tour guides. ;)

For example, Bunratty Castle in Ireland. Visitors basically have free roam. There were a couple places that had ladders up to the roof and other landings. These ladders had metal cages with gates built around them. Nothing I couldn't climb over though.

"Great pictures! Really nice views. I must've missed those areas."
 
Out of state building contractor, check.
Bogus blueprints for the city, check.
"Cousin Vince" the building inspector, check.
Bitchin' grow room/nerd cave that absolutely no one knows about? Hell yeah.
 
bucket said:
Out of state building contractor, check.
Bogus blueprints for the city, check.
"Cousin Vince" the building inspector, check.
Bitchin' grow room/nerd cave that absolutely no one knows about? Hell yeah.
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You better go with LED grow lights so you dont show a heat signature from above ;)
 
panic rooms are really not as much of a joke as they seem. ideally, though, you make one outside, underground, next to your basement. fit it with outside air and water, put a tunnelway from the basement to the room, and thats a panic room. that way, someone can put a siege on your house, burn it to the ground and you can stay in your room until they are all gone. you now have a new, clean, social security number free life. have fun.
 
spacetrader said:
panic rooms are really not as much of a joke as they seem. ideally, though, you make one outside, underground, next to your basement. fit it with outside air and water, put a tunnelway from the basement to the room, and thats a panic room. that way, someone can put a siege on your house, burn it to the ground and you can stay in your room until they are all gone. you now have a new, clean, social security number free life. have fun.
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What if they find the secret plumbing?
 
Not to mention some food or MREs. And a second escape route out. You know - if the zombies get to the one in the basement - you can pop out under the pine tree fifty feet from the house.
 
Not very secret when you can see the gap over the top of the bookshelf lol...
 
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