Hidden hideaways

Published in Modern Architecture | On April 2nd, 2009

hidden-hideaways

Pull a favorite book from your library shelf or twist a candlestick on your fireplace and voila! a secret passageway has been opened to reveal a hidden room.

Whether for safety or storing valuable objects, Creative Home Engineering can include optical and thermal sensors, fingerprint scanners, voice recognition systems just like in the movies.

Behind bookcases, cabinets and cupboards or even underneath the staircase – i love how every object in your home can be a hidden passageway to a room or even a whole section in your house – Now you see it, now you don’t!

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28 Responses to “Hidden hideaways”

  1. Daniel White says:

    So that is where the boogie man is hiding when we were kids!

  2. canvas prints says:

    wow these are great think i need one for work

  3. No Britnny no says:

    You know if someone takes a picture moves a little and takes another then the two pics would not match up. The different angle will capture different things in the room. If you’re talking about things like the lamp in the third one then look again its been pushed down because it was in the way.

    I am a photographer and graphic artist. These are not fake. In fact they would be suspect if they did match up. And don’t start talking about pixels. They are low resolution pictures that happens with low res pics. When you say things like “that’s shopped. cant you see the pixels.” it just says that you don’t know what you’re talking about.

    Just because something is alien does not mean it’s fake.

  4. canvas art says:

    Thats brilliant, ive wanted something like that since i was i kid, after seeing these going to have to get a secret hide out some were in my house.

  5. Title Police says:

    hidden hideaways?

    Welcome to the department of redundancy department.

  6. Sam says:

    Did the Adams family have those stairs? I know the munsters did… haha

    I want one of these… not the stairs one though I feel like that’s an accident waiting to happen for someone like me heh

  7. wka0 says:

    no doubt that nasty fritzill bloke had such a thing

  8. Brittany says:

    Dude, those pictures are fake. If you look at them really closely none of the before, during and after pictures match up. They are heavily photoshopped, or something. If you look at the details like the door frames — the stuff on the walls or in the background– you will see that the pictures don’t quite match up.

    What the hell?

  9. Will says:

    the third one reminds me of harry’s room from harry potter.

  10. jjaammeess says:

    OMG THATS SO FREAKIN’ AWESOME!!!!!

  11. Nambengele says:

    this is so exciting i am building and would definitely borrow some of these fabulous ideas, If only there were equally good contractors!!!! already lost the slab off the 1st floor, am back where I started.

  12. Jean-Jacques says:

    Simplicity secrert

  13. johnt54 says:

    Hey,lay off! The model’s pretty hot

  14. 3 star says:

    Great idea until someone in your household tells all their friends about it!

  15. tom says:

    It’s no longer a secret door if there are pictures available for the whole world to see.

  16. MonkeySmack says:

    The front bookshelf is what you want people to think you read (Faulkner, Tolstoy, maybe some Kant). The hidden bookshelf is the stuff you’re ashamed to admit to reading (Twilight, Koontz, Us Weekly).

  17. wayne says:

    The last one is genius! Although perhaps more for teenagers than older :D

    Yup, can be real hard to collect a porno collection sometimes :P

  18. robb says:

    the staircase is totally awesome !!

  19. Adelle says:

    yeah, the Addams Family had one, but didn’t that make you want to have one? I’ve always wished for a house with a hidden room…maybe someday, I will get one! yah!

  20. U.B. says:

    I thought it was the Anne Frank family.

  21. annon says:

    Original? Didn’t you ever see watch the Adams Family? They had that.

  22. Stinger503 says:

    Last one seems kind of badly used: I open my book shelf hideaway to reveal… another bookshelf!

  23. ursulamajor says:

    Put ze candle…..beck!

  24. txdesign says:

    Great Panic Rooms. Especially the one under the stairs, very feasible for a 2 story house.

  25. doug says:

    … haven’t you seen the munsters?

  26. Jhon says:

    I like the stairs! its original

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