GENIUS Hidden Rooms And Space Saving Ideas

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.

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.

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

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.

I recently had the pleasure of creating a secret room for a young girl. The new house had an unused area in the attic, which I mentioned to the father would make a cool hideout for kids. He liked the idea, and as I was already there to install cabinetry I had built, he asked me to add it to the job. We converted nearly 280 square feet of space, accessed by a ladder hidden in the bedroom wall, behind a sliding mirror like the one at 4:00. That little girl was beyond happy to learn of her secret room, and I was happy to have finally taken part in such a fun project.

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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My Uncle was a developer and built custom homes. In one of his homes in Colorado Springs he had a secret wine celler. First this house was HUGE. 2 stories. About 8,000 square feet 4 bedrooms, plus master suite, full finished basement, billiard room plus a good sized one bedroom apartment with a separate entry. It was for a maid, house keeper or mother in law. It had two garages. One on the first floor and one on the basement level. The back of the lot bordered a nature reserve so nobody could build behind them. (Oh yeah, the secret wine cellar.) A about 21:30 in the video the show a wall covered in wood strips about 1 inch wide. My Uncle had that same wall in the kitchen. You pushed a button in a kitchen cabinet and the door popped open about 2 inches. You opened the door to a secret stairway to the wine celler in the basement. It was totally cool.

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.

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...!

I always wanted to have a house filled with secret passages. One example of one was the first room you entered when you went in the house was a little library, and when you closed the front door you could barely see it behind bookshelves. Then, on the other side of the room would be one of those bookcase doors. When you went through that one you'd be in an identical room. I figured that if someone found the secret door by accident, they'd think there was another one, but there was really a concealed trap door under the rug. Another one is kind of like that fireplace design, except there was an actual fireplace with a sliding heat-proof panel in the back (so you don't burn your hand when someone lights a fire) which led to a ladder to some secret room. But I think that stair idea was absolutely incredible.

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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.

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

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

That hidden home theater is just awesome and the door slides so easily.

I love all these "secret" rooms that are on Youtube for all to see.

There is a mansion, here in our area. In the master bedroom there are two regular wooden wardrobes. Behind the wardrobes are 2 extremely large closets, one for him and one for her. They were amazing to see.

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

I worked in a house that had a wine cellar in the basement that was accessed similarly to this. It was a ladder hidden under a corner countertop. Flip up the top, open the door and climb down. Gorgeous all wood finished cellar.