DIY Secret Passage Adds Mystery To Your Home

Nice way to hide your pr0n labyrinth but sad to say that it's not much of a "Secret" passage way anymore when you post it for all to see on the Internets. :)

Brian Owens

What no Bat-pole?

BigDogues

@AnalysisDialysis (and a MudkipNDS): Totally. I've always wanted a secret bookshelf passage. I just have no idea where to put it :O

jack daniels, monopoly... this guy is OK in my book.

deliciousburglar

@bucklefilledbird: click through to the pictures. It's all explained

Anything made out of particleboard, and a solid cardboard back, should never be moved.

cornhole

I see his Monopoly box is ripped in the same location as mine.

GeneralGozz

Dear god..... I just figured out a way to have the baby's playroom, the book self my wife is demanding I make, AND KEEP MY THEATER ROOM!!! All be it a bit smaller, but cozier and secret mission like!!!

SarakshiSiskin

@Bandit: Plus, the liquor shelf is a Benno CD/DVD shelf which is half the depth of the Billy bookcases.

Wonder what he's using underneath the bookcase to keep it rolling smoothly without marking up the hardwood floor...

@Geisrud: Perhaps only the really good booze are through the passage way.

@Geph_knows_more: I ment right side...WTB edit button!

@Bandit: If you read the Lifehacker article, it explains that they "boozeshelf" on the left has an angled end so as to allow the bookcase to close flush without it hitting.

@Geisrud: My thoughts exactly. This has inspired me to create a secret bar in whatever house I end up buying in the future.

velvetwoodstock

Check out hiddenpassageway.com if you're in the market for a professionally done secret room. They've got a gallery of some pretty cool pictures.

IphtashuFitz

The cool thing is that it looks like it can hinge all the way around so that the two bookcases are back to back in which case you have a bookcase in your office. That should probably be the bookcase the liquor is stored in.

Purple Monkey Dishwasher

There must be a large gap on the right between bookcases in order to allow this to close. That will ruin the effect, I think. Or else they are off-set. Actually, if you look at the other photos, they do seem to be offset with respect to the right-hand bookcase. Not bad at all.

A secret passage is always worth it.

I can attest to that! ;D

Shouldn't the liquor be inside the office?

When I was a little kid, I was completely convinced, for a while, that all houses had secret passages (and wasted a lot of time looking for them). My enthusiasm for having one of my own, someday, was slightly diminished after I saw pics that some guy put up on the web somewhere about his own hidden room where he stored his Real Dolls. Yes, that's plural.

But... if I had my own house, I'd probably want one anyway, as a combo safe room/den.

halloweenjack, King of the Wild Frontier

I think the drawbacks are ok for what it is, which is cool

VideoVampire

Multitouch secret passage kit by iKea...

@LouisJebber: or turn on the lights.

psychiccheese

That's pretty freaking cool.

--Core--

find the pencil sharpener....and it loks hard to use if it's mounted there :-)

@Bodypainter: Cause you're a moron!

with all the light that would show through the cracks and the cords running behind the shelves, and the celing "knockout" (or whatever) I'd notice this in a seocnd! but still fun for playing "fort" in all the same. needs polishing

@Super Moose: Ha, excellent. Loved that line.

Jake712

I was reeeeeallly close to doing this in my house. I just finishing turning half of my living room into a fourth bedroom and I almost made a wall bookcase as the main entrance to the room.

That would actually make for a good panic room. Just don't sneeze, cough, fart, burp, or giggle.

LouisJebber

@MikeSWelch: Uhh I mean office...

MikeSWelch

I've been planning this for months. STOP TELLING PEOPLE ABOUT MY SECRET FAPPING ROOM!!!

MikeSWelch

1) Wheres the Sailor Jerry?
2) Shouldn't the clue game be near the gap so that there is a clue to get into the new murder space we've just created?

OMG. This is my favorite post of the year so far.

Bookcase doors are the only way to go.

Now to convert my oldest kid's BR when he leaves....

@okidokedork: Of course those bottles cost more than the cheap Ikea bookshelves.

NurseDave

@cornhole: That's what I'm thinking. Ikea stuff + moving = busted.

NurseDave

"Put the candle BACK!"

@okidokedork: "You'd think if one could afford to set up a secret passage way, one could also afford to stock some above mixing grade alcohol.

I only hope that the good stuff is behind the secret passage."

Agreed. I'm gonna go out on a limb here and suggest that the stuff we see in the pic is there as a decoy to throw off any potential home intruders / burglars, and that the Patron is resting comfortably on the desk back there. (probably not the case, but anything is possible)

why do i immediately think of michael jackson when i see this?

@Posavoie: You'd think if one could afford to set up a secret passage way, one could also afford to stock some above mixing grade alcohol.

I only hope that the good stuff is behind the secret passage.

okidokedork

@GeneralGozz: The photos were sent in by you in 2017.

hfutrell

@Dane Bendixen: You know, books have been in paper form for thousands of years. I even have a few myself. One gizmo from Amazon does not render them obsolete.

Ancient pencil sharpening contraption, games made to play on paper boards, old books printed on paper, and a decent selection of hard liquors... It all adds up.

Dane Bendixen

Nice, but it would never work for me with the 20' vaulted ceilings. The bookcases would be freakishly high.

@IphtashuFitz:

This entire article should be replaced with a link to that website.

Jason Ultra

@deliciousburglar: But I just don't see that combo ending well.

ARP

@GeneralGozz: When have you last seen said Monopoly box?

ARP

@Geisrud: I'd be worried that if you closed the bookcase wrong, that you'd lose a lot of booze.

ARP

@SarakshiSiskin: Albeit is an actual word, believe it or not. :)

zenneth

That is the worst collection of liquor I've ever seen!

Posavoie

Looks like it opens to the wrong side for getting in/out of the room.