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Been looking for some plans, for a bookshelf that will swing, to hide a door, does anyone know of any
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I've been thinking about putting a "hatch" in our walk in closet to get down in our cellar. After that Derecho blew through, thinking it was a tornado we need away into our cellar without going outside.
Walk-in closet..... trap-door.... voila... "DING DING DING.... going down [:D]
http://www.hiddenpassages.com/concept_doors.shtml
COB
With the book case rolled out revealing the safe.
Book case rolled back in.
What's your address and what hours are you normally gone from the house? Just curious, of course. [:D][:D]
He put in a simple cheap gun cabinet with the old obligatory clear glass doors against a wall downstairs. It was hinged and swung out easily on its rollers on the tiled floor once you reached behind it and tripped the hidden latch, revealing a doorway into a room he had excavated and then lengthened into a 25' two lane shooting range. This was right in the middle of town. Being subterranean, the noise was pretty well muffled. That is also where his REAL gun racks were. In the glass fronted guncase, he kept a couple of old cheapy rusty .22's as fodder for any burglars. He figured that his hobby was pretty public knowledge and if a burglar found nothing, he would just hunt harder and maybe find the hidden room. (It was kind of like a jeweller leaving paste "diamonds" in the display case overnight while the real ones are hidden. Let the burglars take them and run, leaving less damage to the property.) A room like that could also make for a pretty good "safe room" under the right circumstances. If it was mine, I might be tempted to continue the excavation further out, to some bushes and have an exit hatch there, secured from the inside, just in case a quiet departure is ever wanted. It would be one heck of a way to surprise back yard prowlers. [:D][:D]
But, if I did this for a friend, imagine what I have done in my own house. That I will never post pics of.[:D]
Actually this is not my house but a friends house that I remodeled. There is nothing in the pic that gives out the location. LOL[:D]
But, if I did this for a friend, imagine what I have done in my own house. That I will never post pics of.[:D]
Another excellent job![;)]
I like this:
Especially if the location and/or dimensions of the unseen area can't be determined externally....
I like that idea as well....
Along with JohnnyB's hidden safe/book shelf... Good use of wasted space.
I like this:
Kinda reminiscent of the Munsters pet "Spot" the dragon who lived under the stairs...
I garauntee NO ONE would ever find it...and much easier to build and make work than a bookcase hidie hole..if that is the intention.
The hinge set up for a HEAVY, even small bookcase, is the HARD part, built one once and I know my way around woodworking...and with another carpenter friend it was a JOB to make work properly and to have the reveals even, so as it was not noticable, which, is the entire intention.
The hidie hole I speak of is simple & inexspensive...I had 3 in one house before I bought safes...and even have two here, with safes...no way someone would find 'em.
If I can get some decent pics, since its in a closet, and if you keep reminding me...Ill take some guns from the safe and put them in to show you what it is and how it works...[;)]
I like this:
Now this is cool. Problem would be when it starts leaving rub marks on the walls.