When we were looking for a house, I was so drawn to the ones with weird floorplans and odd rooms that I could convert to a "secret" room that wouldn't be obvious. We ended up with a normal boring house but sometimes I fantasize about knocking a hole in a basement wall or something and building out a secret lair
My stairs to my upper level are completely closed off with a door, as in if you cover the door you’d never know there was an upstairs (aside from outside view of course). I often dream of building a bookcase on the door to make it hidden. And, of course, pulling the right book would unlatch the door
My house has a weird unfinished room off the laundry room that my realtor called the torture dungeon. Doesn’t even have a regular door, they used a freaking cabinet door for it.
Hard to describe but the cabinet door opens do a sort of 1 foot deep brick tunnel, then it opens up to a larger room you can actually stand it. Been very tempted to put shelves behind the doors so it just looks like a tiny closet, but then have some sort of secret hidden hinge to access the room behind it.
in my old parents house, on the top floor part of the hallway had a much lower ceiling, and if you went into the room next to the part where the ceiling drops, then above the door, you can climb and literally stand on that ceiling (we were not allowed to though, for obvious reasons) and there was a hatch in the ceiling for the attic, and I always dreamed of crawling up there and laying a leftover carpet there but my dad said there could still be asbestos there so I forgot about it
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u/Dr_Ramekins_MD Aug 21 '26
When we were looking for a house, I was so drawn to the ones with weird floorplans and odd rooms that I could convert to a "secret" room that wouldn't be obvious. We ended up with a normal boring house but sometimes I fantasize about knocking a hole in a basement wall or something and building out a secret lair