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!

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

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.

You asked what book would you use as a latch to a hidden door: I'd title it as an encyclopedia, or a manual for one of those IKEA pieces of furniture.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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...!

How TF could you live somewhere for THREE YEARS and "never notice" a whole locked door right at the top of your stairs with a window on the INSIDE of the house? How is that even possible?

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.

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

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

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

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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.

That dryer tunnel reminds me of the door in Coraline that she opens up to get to her other world! That was amazing!!!

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.

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

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.

How unaware must you be to live in a home for 3 years and never notice a door and a window, ffs?!

That was riveting! I love things like this. If I had my own home & the money for it, I'd def incorporate some of these ideas into it!

I love the one with the tunnel that leads to a bar and kid's play area. I'd turn the play area into a sectional couch. Like a lounge room.

After looking carefully at the adiacent house's blueprint and realizing something didn't add up, a guy I know found by accident two entire rooms hidden behind a wall of his very old masonry house! He made a small apartment for his son out of them. Talk about lucky!

I have allways wanted this in my house. It would be so cool!

What a Sweet Story! Thank you for sharing!

I love hidden rooms when we renovated my oldest brother home and turned it into a up and down duplex we put the furnace and hot water tank upstairs in a hidden furnace room just big enough to house them access to the furnace was gained from the master bedroom closet remove the upper and lower closet rods grab the right side closet bar holder close to the front of the closet and pull it and the whole wall swung out giving access to the front of furnace and humidifier access to the hot water heater was accessible from hallway remove the cold air return which was at the 6 foot height inside the cold air return was a 3/4 by1/2 inch reducing pipe pull it up and the whole 3 foot by 5 ft section of the wall would lean out grab both sides and lift up and remove the section of wall at my home I had a massive deck at ground level back of the house grab the right side of the deck and lift it up to reveal a stairway down to a large storage room under the deck I also built two hidden rooms in my younger brother home one accessible from his bedroom behind a bookcase on hinges and the other access from his top floor deck behind a wall

I built a Torando Shelter room/ Gun Safe at the end of my Master bedroom closet. (6' w X 4' D X 8' H) We have a wrap around porch and that part of the pporch was just wasted space. And that meant the Shelter didn't take up and of the walk in closet space. The access door to the shelter is a shoe shelf that swings out, totally hidden if you don't know it's there. Then the safe type pocket doors are behind it. It's made from 3/8th amored steel plates welded together and lined with Armor Core Sheetrock insde, painted inside to give it a normal room appearance. It has 2 wall mounted bunk beds that are big enough for 2 to sleep on or fold the upper bunk down to make the bottom bunk into a couch. There is a small fold down table on one wall that is big enough for a Ipad. Some shelves above it, and around the wall above the beds. And on the wall above the table is a 23" TV and 9" CCTV monitor so we can see the weather conditions outside and if any damage is done to our home before we exit. The lower bunk has stotage for fod and water. And there is a portable toilet in the room too! It have a solar panel outside and a Lithium battery inside topower the TV's and ventilation fan. And there is a 2 & 10 meter ham radio inside the room with a flexible car type antenna mounted outside. I am friends with my Local PD so if my house it hit by a tornado they know where to come look for us. Plus my wife is a member of the National Weather Storm Spotter Organization. It's a small room meant for just a few hours. But could sustain us from bad guys if need be! If I had more money I'd install a 6 person Bomb Shelter in the back yard.

I'd love to have the room behind the library shelves with the rolling staircase. But that's because I want the library shelves with the rolling bookcase, not necessarily the room :)

SECRET ROOMS AND HIDDEN SPACES ARE SO COOL!😊

Many of the hidden rooms in old houses were actually part of 'The Underground Railroad' . This was a collection of people willing to hide slaves as they made their way to freedom. They would have 2 entry points hidden in places like at the back of a closet wall, and a kitchen cupboard. Growing up, my friend lived in a simple old farmhouse. It had a hidden door behind a kitchen cupboard that lead to a tiny staircasestairs to an attic room. The other door led from the attic room to a false panel at the back of the master bedroom closet. Very cool until you think of it's purpose.

My husband and I bought the house we have been renting for the last 5 years. During the inspection we went into the attic space and I had never seen it and figured it was a small unusable space. Wow it is huge! I had no idea. We are making plans to loft it open to the living room😄

The Carlos Fernando door @21:55 isn't even remotely as complex and difficult to create as you seem to think (or want us to think). All of the "math involved" is non-existent. You just construct the wall with a flush door then cover it all with the same thickness slats. Not very complicated at all.

My friend was obsessed with secret rooms and furniture that morphed. He passed away last year. We watched videos on YT for hours of homes with secret rooms or just secrets. Plus the abandon homes, and anything new tech. I am wanting to see the ultimate house with a surprise inside that is die for awesome. I have seen some great stuff though. There use to be a house on YT that had a park/playground inside the home for the kids. I don't remember if they had the no sun disease it has been a long time since I saw it, but i think they did. I tried to find it one time to show someone. Never did find it.

These are SO CLEVER, and I just LOVE the little go-cart shrub! I thought it was like a Rumba. The hiding spots I like the best are ones that, in a power outage, you can still exit or enter. (Always have a Plan B).

That "Secret Viewing" one is clearly a secret passage for a child to play in. The heights of the doors are perfect for small kids and the bookcase is a children's style.

Wine cellar one was awesome if they could make it so the hinges aren't on show

13:58 - Was planning on doing that aswel. We have a tiny house and by having brought the bathroom down to ground level, for which I had to close up the entrance to the tiny basement, if you can actually call it a basement. We still have to be able to get in there, because that is where the main line of the water is. At first I wanted to do a door at the side of the stairs, but then you have to pull a bit of acrobat stuff to get in and out. And if someone is either too tall or too fat, for example someone of the water company, they wouldn't be able to get in there. So I was planning this sort of stairs aswell, which would made easier access.

I lived on a former plantation as a child. There were intact slave quarters, including indoor ones over the former kitchen, which was a garage when we lived there. the more modern kitchen was next to it, and on either side of the door into the house was a pantry. There were 23 foot ceilings and each of the pantries had deep shelves from floor to ceiling. deep enough for large burlap hags full of grains and beans, etc, or cotton or wool, as the lady of the house was a well known weaver and we think one of the pantries was for her supplies. In the one we used for food, my brother and I climbed the shelves to the top and discovered an entrance to the indoor slave quarters. The quarters were an attractive apartment with a large central room with a large fireplace in the middle and opposite it was a wood bin with a bedroom on either side. To enter the secret passageway to the pantry, one would remove the logs and the lose boards at the bottom and there below it was the top shelf of the pantry. It was truly genius and no doubt provided the enslaved with extra food. I believe there was also a space in the basement that could have been used to hide runaways as it was so dark we could never see into it even with a flashlight. I once found a game made of perfectly round black stones lying in the dirt just outside the darkest area. I've always wished I could go back and explore the space with new LED flashlights. I now live in a house that was built in 1860. The last owner found some Confederate money and papers in the wall of the first owner's law office. I guess when the money was devalued he never bothered to retrieve it. We pulled out a book case in the kitchen and found a recess deep enough for the original stove - which would have been vented up the chimney. The chimneys no longer function, but I'd like to finish that recess out and replace the book case with one that slides out, or turn the whole thing into a deep cupboard for appliances. Nothing really thrilling in that house, except for the ingenious construction and the careful placement on the land that makes it cool year round - nobody does that anymore, even when people build their own.

If I did have a secret door to a hidden room, I wouldn’t tell anyone.

I wish I had an actual hidden room in my house my family didn’t know about.

Thanks!! Meow Wolf (all 4 of them) went on the bucket list. My daughters and I are taking a year-long road trip after she graduates, and we're determined to see and do it all!!

I love your videos so much!❤️ They're so interesting!

That "attic" behind the panel would have been too cold in the winter, too hot in the summer. having hung drywall myself and looking at all the angles I would guess it would be super expensive to finish.

20:35 ... err, there is a more sinister reason for such a room. That room was likely used to keep someone hidden away within. As in a child abductor and such. Being hidden behind a bookshelf within the wardrobe like that meant the abductor could enter and exit the room unnoticed by a child within the room. Those tiles under the carpeting on the first entry point was to hide the sound of footsteps.

I love clever stuff like this. Very interesting.

A friend of mine had a large multi level house. On the second to the lowest level behind the wet bar was a hidden spiral stair (verry cramped) If you went outside you could clearly see another huge living area on the lowest level. The "hidden stair" was the only Interior way to get into that space. Someone inside the house might call that a hidden room although from outside it was not hidden.

I wired up a Safe room for a Guy He had a LARGE digital combination pad hidden in what looked a standard area of the wall But when you opened the door locked by the digital combination pad You entered a stair way down to a concrete lined room under the basement It was a complete second basement Three of the walls had 8' tall safes imbedded into the concrete wall With more safes in the middle of the room I found out he collected books and needed someplace fire proof to store the books I was sort of hoping for cash , gold or guns

I love the hidden slides! When I was about 4, for about 6 months we lived in a 2-story house with a full-size basement. I once found a little door in the upstairs hallway. It opened horizontally, and behind it was a metal space that appeared to be bottomless. Fortunately (maybe? ;)) my mother found me inspecting it via a stool in hopes of discovering a SECRET SLIDE! Alas, it was only a laundry chute, and my mom was horrified that I was considering a test run. She told me to never, ever get inside of it because it went down two stories to the cement-floor basement. But I think I need to have a house where I can create one! Either a laundry chute or a SECRET SLIDE :D -- or both.

Love the high bookshelves with the rolling stairs❤

I love to have a home That has secrets so nobody can bother me 😊

Upstairs, on either side of my 2 window dormers, are small 4'×4'×4' boxy spaces. I only found these after we had a major house fire. Apparently, our local government regulations require certain sized "Rooms" have specific human sized egress rules for safe evacuation in, guess what, case of a fire. For these tiny rooms to be 'rooms' they'd each have to have a 3'×3' window all so, in a fire, a person could crawl out to safety. My contractor was LEGALLY required to COMPLETELY seal the tiny rooms making them impossible to enter. But (*wink wink*) not before accidentally putting a rough floor over the insulation & suggesting a few KZfaq "How to" videos. Coincidentally he left perfectly sized, cabinet doors, hinges & trim. TaDa! Extra 'secret' storage. I did use screws to close & secure the cabinet doors. Eventhough the doors are hidden in the upstairs closet, having kids around meant taking no chances. Out of sight storage (ie a wedding dress) is one thing endangering kids is another. I don't feel too bad, the County is taxing us for usable & unusable space equally so SAFELY using what I'm paying for just makes sense. Maybe simular laws are why there is no entry to some of these secret places.

Imagine the electric bill if they left the light on in the secret room behind bookcase before selling.

I like the idea of a hedge covering an outside door that leads to the basement

Awesome seeing all these cool hidden spaces

Part of our house's attic 'crawl space' is accessible via a panel in the back of a secondary closet (we call it the 'nook') in my youngest's room. We've always wondered it there would be a way to outfit it to be habitable, or extra storage space. Something about floor vs ceiling joists that I'm not familiar with.

The book I’d have would have to be “caillou: accidents happen (clubhouse)”

All of these are brilliant

I love watching these videos. The “hidden rooms” type videos. Not that I’ll ever own a house with this type thing. I love to see that it’s possible and I’m clearly not the only one who’s jealous

Honestly, the guy at 3:55 with the hidden mirror was the only one who made a truly purposeful hidden area/panic room. The others just seem to be for fun or a surprise factor.

Not really a "secret room" if everyone knows.

For a book that few would want to read, it could be something like, “the history of traffic lights.” Or, “door hinge mechanics.” Something to that degree.

This was a seriously cool video, also give me ideas from my own house. I wish I had the money to do a half of this.

The main reason why I want a secret room is in case there's an intruder or someone has a hit on me to be murdered. I'll have a secret room to hide. What would be a huge plus is if there's another secret, concealed door to escape outside to get help.

I've been to MeowWolf in Santa Fe, and I knew what that dryer was as soon as it appeared. It's an awesome place.

I hope you get 10M subs soon. Your videos are so entertaining

I have been obsessed with hidden rooms all my life! I have to wonder where that comes from? I have put a bookshelf from my door to my bedroom. I want more…

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19:44 This is pretty common, especially with custom built homes. It's called a Bonus Room. Bonus rooms can be finished at the time of building, but probably more often they are left unfinished. Depending on the layout of the home, adding a bonus room at the time of building can be relatively cheap. What isn't cheap is finishing the bonus room, and paying taxes on it as "living space" ... Think of it like an addition that could be built really easily if they need it, but they don't have to pay taxes on it until or unless they do.

Your voice is very comforting, great video btw

The hidden room, with the insulation in the attic is easy enough to explain. Those Archway windows are notoriously hard to keep insulated properly, this likely brough the square footage to the amount the AC could handle, as well as allowing for better insulation on the section of the house most common to lose heat.

I have a secret compartment in my house. So basically it's a 2 platform shelf that goes into the wall. But if you look hard enough there's an Alan wrench stuck in the side that's what locks it in place. and when you pull it out you just have to pull on the cabinet and it opens up via hinges and reveals a secret storage room about 10 ft in total area. We lived there for a year until we found it we have no idea if the previous owners even knew about it.

Men's cave is probably most important room in the house. Every man should have one 😁

I would love to have a secret room in my house

Tour Hearts Castle in California. You will be amazed with so many hidden doors to secret rooms and hallways.

Was touring a house, on the top floor there was a second bedroom next to the master bedroom. They both had closets on the separating wall, in the same place. Apparently, there was actually a narrow hidden passage between the tunnels that I could walk through.

These videos are giving me the same feeling I had when I discovered the secret drawer in my dresser. Mom couldn’t find my phone to take before bed time anymore after that mwahaha

WOULD HAVE LOVED TO SEE MORE OF THE LAST ONE

I’ve always thought about doing the storage room bed, not for when the house is rented but between renters or if doing short term rental like airbnb

Brilliant compilation. Though I’m disappointed no secret rooms from history were shown where people were held captive.

This man always seems to Be Amazed

sure you can come over! I have a secret place in my kitchen of where you pull out a part of the counter and it unlocks a huge room where I always hide. I had this since childhood and my parents never knew!

My friend's house had a cupboard which, when opened, actually revealed itself to be a full-fledged bedroom suitable for two adults (me and my friend's mom) and two kids (me and my friend). Whenever I go to that house, I'm amazed at the cupboard even though I've seen it plenty of times.

7:52 Found a solution to hide the stairs connecting my kitchen to the canteen! Thank you!

OMG! That landlord 'place to crash,' thing! Yeah, if I was walking around there in the morning with a coffee and I saw my landlord's face there I'd have a heart attack!

Yes all of them. And even more.

I definitely enjoyed Julia's pink and brown tunnels. If you're claustrophobic, beware, because they're really tight...butt then again, I'm pretty sure they would get you past your phobia. Absolutely amazing.

Those internal slides are way too claustrophobic for me ! It's one of the few times I wish I didn't have it because they look like so much fun.

I love your theory of the secret bookcase from when you said, "every time I see a bookcase I think there's a secret passage behind it."... LOL!!!... Funny you mention that, I think the same thing! 👍🤭

“All about menopause”, that’s the book that I’d use.

this video was amazing!!!

There's a somewhat small closet in my house that could be easily turned into a hidden room and have a secret access hatch installed in the floor that could lead to a smaller storage area below.

I was more surprised to learn how affluent TikTok users apparently are. It's obviously a much more profitable venture than I had thought.

Check out an old episode of the Munsters and you will find the great staircase rises with stairs that go down to Grandpas Lab. lol about 50 or 60 years ago. It was about 6' or more wide with all the ornate woodwork, it was Beautiful.

9:35 ok no. If I ever ended up in an attic where I saw all of that, I'd have either two options 1. Burn the house 2. Burn the house