Secret Room Construction- OK.. tell me this DOESN'T have you thinking...

[MyRoad]

I brought this up when I was looking to buy the house I now live in, last June. (Hidden doors and unseen spaces).

As several people here have noted, there was no way to even bring up the subject to contractors without all kinds of suspicion arising, as they wondered if I was a drug dealer or what I had to hide that was so valuable. Alternately, they would start telling me about others they've done, and you could see they just couldn't wait to add this one to their resume. In the end I found that a space big enough to walk into would be more difficult to conceal, and I just didn't have the room to spare, its not a big house.

So like anything else, you just need to figure out what your priority is.

Personally, I just want to hide things not necessarily hide myself. So in several locations as construction was being done, I requested that I'd like an "access door" put in to different areas adjacent to the eves of the house (upstairs, if that's not obvious). The contractor working on my house commended me for thinking ahead, since it would create easy access to wiring and plumbing. I suppose the rest of the story I'll keep a "secret".

 

[U.S.SFC_RET]

It is very easy to put up a false wall. Make it three to six full feet in depth. construct the wall with stud and drywall. Construct the door. Pegboard the wall with 4X8 sheets of pegboard vertical. run on the bottom a full length solid oak piece of molding to compliment the wall and to cover up youe "wear" where you step into the door. Locate the door where the least accessible place would be in the room instead of the most accessible. construct the outer skin that gets either pulled off or pulled up and swung away to reveal the real door. Construct shelving at the top to include where the door is. when you enter just pull off the piece. Hang tools where you want to. It will not be seen when fully enclosed.