So how could you use this idea in your home? I like the "bookshelves hiding a door" idea, like at the 3 Rings offices. We (well, mostly Ben, with some of my help), built shallow bookcases covering one wall of our guestbedroom:
I wonder if we could just extend them somehow to cover the door as well, giving the illusion of a room with no door? (Kind of missing the point, though, doesn't it, to have the hidden door on the *inside* of the room?)
Of course, there's always the hidden door at the back of a wardrobe.
Previous post on the 3 Rings Offices.
http://www.comforthouse.com/fauxbook.html has handmade leather book spines used as wallpaper.
ReplyDeleteWe covered the front of a huge filing cabinet at my school with the spines of water-damaged math textbooks that my students and I cut apart by hand.
If you don't have (or don't trust) a room full of teenagers with razorblades and exacto knives, many photocopy shops have a cutter that will make quick and safer work of the job of seperating the paper from book spine. They charge around a dollar a cut.
I don't like chopping up GOOD books just for decor. It would be easy to cover your door with college textbooks or end-of-summer garage sale finds.
I actually had to do something similar to your file-cabinet project for the bookshelves. If you look on the right hand side of the fifth shelf down, you'll see about six books with a seventh laid on top of them. They are actually only half an inch thick, and conceal some wiring and a light switch.
ReplyDeleteI found a standard bandsaw did the trick nicely. And I used the most horrid dreck I could find -- Tom Clancy Op-Center/NetForce spinoffs purchased used at thrift shops.
I would absolutely LOVE to be able to incorporate a hidden doorway into our home... Now to do some thinking and planning. HM..... So worth the brainpower and planning. thank you.
ReplyDeleteWhat a perfect rooms, also the title reminded me I have a house with a lo of secret trials, that's perfect because nobody knows where I am.
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