GENIUS Hidden Rooms And Space Saving Ideas

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  @batbratsdesigns · 4 years ago

  When I was younger, My mom and stepdad bought a half million dollar house that had a secret guest house connected to a giant pool. I found it by accident, I fell into the wall in my closet and it opened into a hallway leading into the front entrance. It was a complete house too. The bathroom was beautiful with a brass bathtub and stone shower with a waterfall showerhead. They gave it to me to use as my living space and I also had my bedroom in the main house. I was fourteen when my mom let me have the guest house. I am handicapped and it helped me get around the house. We lived there for 15 years. I loved it. I even cleaned the pool for my family so we didn't need to pay for a cleaning service. I would get my handicapped floater chair and the supplies, and enjoy the pool while cleaning it. At the end I would put the tablets in and let it do it's job. My mom and stepdad worked hard to afford that house. For awhile we were well off. They took good care of me too. They both passed away, mom passed in 2017 from cancer, my stepdad passed away two years ago from heart disease. R.I.P ❤️😭 I miss them very much.

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  @BDogGrizzly · 4 years ago

  My parents and I moved into a house when I was 12. We lived there 4 years before we were doing some renovations and found out there was a secret room behind a wall that only opened when you pushed on a VERY SPECIFIC and SPECIAL spot. It was a large room. About the same size as our living room which was 50x75. My Grandpa who was helping us renovate the house actually replaced the wall with a bookshelf and then hid the room again after renovating it and turning it into my bedroom. It was the coolest bedroom a teen could ask for.

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  @robinright825 · 4 years ago

  My daughter bought a house that had a 'secret' room.  Behind a pair of bookshelves of all places. After seeing it - I wanted one!  😆

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  @ContrarianConcervativePNW · 3 years ago

  So I'm an electrician and a carpenter. In response to the attic with loose insulation, I see this quite often. Technically, it's not a finished room, not even close. Everything is completely exposed, no shear, drywall, shiplap or anything covering the stud with probable electrical exposed. Usually you will find electrical or ventilation throughout these spaces. It makes for a great access point for doing wiring. More than likely there is a breaker box below it or in the room on the otherside. It's also likely that lights or bathroom fans are wired and vented through the floor and exiting the wall leaving the house. These spaces are conveniently when you want work done but don't want to have to patch drywall. It makes it quick and easy.

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  @krisandersen8695 · 4 years ago

  If I were to ever have enough money to build a custom house, I would definitely have a few hidden rooms built in!

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  @videovisions · 4 years ago

  There are several speakeasies here in Texas.  One I frequent in Dallas is in the Statler Hotel which is an old hotel itself.  You go down to the shoeshine stand, go into a phone booth and dial a certain number and a door opens out of the wood-paneled wall.  The interior is filled with 20's era furnishings.

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• ER

  @eringemini7091 · 4 years ago (edited)

  A hydraulic staircase is an excellent security feature! Imagine how safe you would feel sleeping on the 2nd story of your home, with the ONLY way UP neatly hidden away from robbers, attackers, Zombies, etc.

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  @mojang6064 · 4 years ago

  These kinds of videos fuel my intentions to build a house filled to the brim with secret rooms, hallways, trap-doors, including outside.

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  @DOGakaDefenderOfGems · 4 years ago

  the kitchen island hiding the stairs was absolutely genius to say the least

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  @erikkoski6129 · 4 years ago

  Imagine all the scaring you could do on Halloween in the shrub cube thing 😂

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  @samp4050 · 4 years ago

  These hidden rooms are also great to hide away and stay safe during a home invasion. I would also add hidden cameras as well to record the criminals for police to identify and arrest.

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  @nairbvel · 4 years ago

  My folks' house has a 1/4 turn spiral staircase from the entry foyer up to the 2nd floor. Nearby (hidden within walls & closed off with a door) is the set of stairs leading down to the basement -- they're straight, but make a 90-degree turn halfway down. As you might expect, the basement stairs are just a simple, basic staircase that follows the downward angle & path of the fancier curved staircase going up... But I have a friend who, after almost 50 years, still insists that there's actually a secret passage there.  I've spent a lot of time over the 50+ years my family has owned the house looking and I can tell you there really is not a passage there (the measurements tell me you'd have to be a half-size munchkin to fit between the lower surface of the upper stairs and the ceiling for the basement stairs.  So... imagine my surprise when I did some renovation work in the upstairs bathroom (in the "master suite" that is my parents' bedroom) and had to remove a screwed-in panel in the back of the closet to access the pipes for the shower... only to discover a four-foot square "room" with no ceiling that opened directly into the area beneath the roof. Why that space wasn't used for the closet, no one can tell us... but it was fun explaining to my friend that he had the location of secret spaces in the house totally wrong...!

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