If you are making a secret door to your personal office, but the kids end up using it as their fun playroom, that maybe isn’t as functional as you wanted it to be. Purposeĭo you want the door to be for convenience, privacy, or just for fun? Make sure your purpose for the hidden room makes sense for you, your family, and the space. Will a hidden door in that space hinder or expand the flow of your living space? Make sure where or what you are installing doesn’t actually cause issues when it comes to spacing or mobility in your home. Hidden doors in the living room could lead to small reading nooks or offices. What room do you want the secret door in, and what room do you want it to lead to? You see on the right a perfect off-shoot of the hallway made for a quaint little playroom. Imagine the look on your friend’s face when you push a button and your bookshelf opens up to reveal another room! Location You could attach an end table, a bar table, or anything that still allows for usability, and helps it blend into the wall. Functionalityĭo you want your door to be functional? Bookshelves are a great way to create a truly hidden door that doesn’t take away from any space in your home. There are a couple of things to consider when planning your hidden door construction. We want to share with you how you can build your own secret door in your home, and showcase some of our favorite examples. Hidden doors and walkways don’t have to be something we only see in fantasy, we can make them a reality! Thanks again.We’ve all seen secret hidden doors in our favorite movies like Harry Potter, Indiana Jones, and Young Frankenstein. Appreciate the insight and your excellent instructions on what you built as well. I was down to the part of putting the inner bookcase shell into the frame and trying to figure out how to hold it there solidly without having something like bolts that would show (anchors I found at home centers didn't work out very well in my tests in scrap material so I gave up that route). At any rate, I'm in the middle of building one based on what you documented and wasn't sure until now how the attachment to the frame went - I haven't worked with metal much (the welding was a bit of a stretch and new thing for me =) so wasn't aware that metal screws would be able to thread into the square tubing to hold well. Thanks for the information regarding attachment (apologize I had to send this as a new comment rather than as a reply to your response, as the website keeps telling me to type the two words even though I already did so and only recognized that when I posted this as a new comment). Nobody would ever see the finished wall and think "Hey I wonder if that is a door?" all in all i have about $350 in the project. I am not the best woodworker, and the materials ( mdf and particle board ) are less than optimum, and the walls are crooked, but the results were great. I also had to slightly round the horizontal pieces to slip underneath smoothly. The 4.5 inch trim left and right of the shelf-door, the right side is fixed to the fixed shelf, the left side moves with the door.I had to bevel notches in the trim on the right because the horizontal trim dives under it as the door opens. I used a credit card for gaps between trim and crown to allow clearance. Then I built the two side shelves and installed trim all around. ( If I did this again I would bring all the shelves out from the wall, making all full depth. In my design I made the swinging shelf 2 inch shallower than the other shelves to allow clearance behind it for the arc when it swung. Into the installed frame I built the first shelf box for the swinging shelf and verified clearance.
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