Remodeling Your House DS Style

[MsCriseyde]

Here's an article about a couple who are having a secret passage installed in their home. They're DS fans.

http://www.insidebayarea.com/bayarealiving/ci_5052080

[Mysterious Benefactor]

Here's an article about a couple who are having a secret passage installed in their home.

Don't we all have one? 

[Jackie]

WOW that's very cool. Thanks for sharing.

They don't live that far away from me!  

[Alondra]

I doubt they'll be able to keep this a secret, since there is this article written about it and like the article said, they won't be able to resist showing it to friends.

Alondra

[loril54]

There are some houses in my area that have passageways and also a a ony way mirror

That way you can watch your guests.

Lori

sometimes though my house has dust does that count.

[dom]

sometimes though my house has dust does that count.

Yes, if you are Lily Munster. 

[Brandon Collins]

What a great article! Thanks so much for sharing! I've always wanted a secret passage in my home too, and maybe someday I'll get one just like these people.

I actually was watching some talk show a couple weeks back and they had a woman on there that lived in a house where you walk right in the front door and the first thing you see is the bathroom. If the door is open you can see right into the bathroom, and if it's closed, well, most people assumed it was a coat closet. So this inventive gal repainted her door and put thin shelves on the front with fake books, and made it look just like a bookcase. Nobody could tell the difference unless they were shown.

Not exactly a secret passage, but pretty close!  And just think, you'd get to say "The bathroom? Oh it's right there behind the bookcase."

[BuzzH]

"The bathroom? Oh it's right there behind the bookcase."

Karlenfan had a secret room in the house she grew up in!  You had to open the bookcase in the living room to get to it.    It was hella cool! 

[loril54]

Not exactly a secret passage, but pretty close!  And just think, you'd get to say "The bathroom? Oh it's right there behind the bookcase."

Just think you can get you reading material before you go in.

Lori 

[Midnite]

Just think you can get you reading material before you go in.

LOL

There are some houses in my area that have passageways and also a a ony way mirror

That way you can watch your guests.

Even better would be a two-way mirror. 

[Elmont]

I actually built a secret room in a house that I lived in twenty years ago.  The place was an old farm house that belonged to my grandfather. The house was in my family for more than one hundred years at the time. I lived in the house for four years and was given permission to do as I liked with the place. On the second floor at the end of a hallway was a big walk in closet. I built a false wall four feet into the closet leaving a small hidden room eight foot by nine foot in size. The wall was constructed from plywood, 2"x4" and 1"x 8". The wall was made to look like three panels with one of them opening inward. When I painted the smaller closet the panels blended in perfectly. I did this within the first few days that I was in the house and my two children at the time had no idea that the room existed. It was used to hide Christmas presents mostly.

[loril54]

my mind was thinking in another area. Christimas Presents are great. I know my brother used to talk about white lights in college in the dorm. But then I was a child of the 60's and 70's

[BuzzH]

Karlenfan had a secret room in the house she grew up in!  You had to open the bookcase in the living room to get to it.  It was hella cool! 

Here's a couple pics of Karlenfan's secret room, that's her arm in the first pic btw. 

[MagnusTrask]

Early 70s, DS times (I did hurry home for it after school), we lived in a 40s house, with a closed-off staircase that you could only look into by getting on top of something high outside and looking in through the window.  the place also had a dumb waiter that was closed off.

I'd love to have a big old house and create my own Addams Family-esque environment, odd alarming objects and passageways.

[MrsMcGuire]

I used to always tell my younger brother that there was a secret room in the mausoleum out in the cemetery behind our house and that if he ever went in there he'd find a vampire. That was just fine when he was a scared little kid, but then he got a bit older and braver and I had to change my story real quick to keep him from trying to find the room for himself. I guess that's what I get for trying to give him nightmares.


Personally, I'd never be able to have a secret room in my house because I couldn't keep it a secret. It'd be more like the "Formerly Secret Room."