Comments on: Perfect for your own personal batcave.

Perfect for your own personal batcave.

crunchland — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 13:55:13 -0800

is a registered contracting company that adds value to homes by integrating silent, automated, hidden passageways. [note: flash]

By: crunchland

crunchland — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 13:55:24 -0800

via the architecture blog, life without buildings.

By: Faint of Butt

Faint of Butt — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 14:00:02 -0800

I wish I were cool enough to deserve this.

By: Outlawyr

Outlawyr — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 14:18:13 -0800

You, sir, have appealed to my inner geek. That is so cool. Thanks.

By: octothorpe

octothorpe — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 14:20:58 -0800

Put... the candle... back!

By: mr_roboto

mr_roboto — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 14:21:32 -0800

$1500 for a kit! That's actually pretty reasonable.

By: armoured-ant

armoured-ant — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 14:22:02 -0800

Want.

By: Wolfdog

Wolfdog — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 14:24:19 -0800

This is what my apartment needs.

By: Sibrax

Sibrax — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 14:27:30 -0800

I will give one million dollars* to the person who recreates the Clue mansion. * To be paid in Monopoly money.

By: recurve

recurve — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 14:28:23 -0800

$10,000 would be reasonable if it included a bribe to the building inspector.

By: justkevin

justkevin — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 14:30:35 -0800

I know it's passe to say, but octothorpe wins.

By: BrotherCaine

BrotherCaine — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 14:50:06 -0800

Awesome. I remember always wanting a house with a secret passage as a kid. I loved shows which featured secret hallways and rooms such as 'Tenspeed and Brown Shoe'.

By: elendil71

elendil71 — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 15:03:58 -0800

Coolest. Thing. Ever! I recall visiting the Salem Witch House in Salem, Mass. years ago and the tour guide said that most large homes of the era had secret rooms/passages so they could hide furniture, etc from the tax collector, rather than, for example, hiding the candlestick after a brief meeting with Colonel Mustard. Good stuff.

By: ori

ori — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 15:04:53 -0800

Funny, I was just looking for a place to keep my batmobile.

By: davejay

davejay — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 15:24:29 -0800

My father-in-law wanted to put a secret passage in his custom-built house for his twin sons, but the opening through their upstairs-closets to the basement would have needed a ladder down that ended over a staircase, which is a building code no-no. Sadly, the housing plans were too far down the road to find another solution. Also: when I visited my sister (who was staying in a Ronald McDonalds house near a children's hospital for reasons too depressing to mention here), I was looking at the kids' library, lined with various bookshelves. I opened the doors to one, and instead of books, found a passage up a curved staircase. The top floor rotunda was the highest room in the building, was round with huge pillows all the way around it, and windows all the way around. It was exactly the kind of "hidden" room a kid would love. I am determined to provide something similar to my kids, either in my current house or my next one.

By: GuyZero

GuyZero — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 15:33:25 -0800

I seem to recall a web page put up by someone who home-built a similar hidden room... to hide his collection of "real dolls". Though maybe I shouldn't admit to having seen that.

By: Citizen Premier

Citizen Premier — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 15:37:06 -0800

davejay, be sure not to tell your kids about it. Let them discover it on their own!

By: Astro Zombie

Astro Zombie — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 16:12:36 -0800

Secret passages are overrated. They lead to basement dungeons far less often than you might expect.

By: odigity

odigity — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 17:26:50 -0800

Am I the only one who's Firefox browser immediately resized upon performing a right-click-open-new-tab on the link? Cause I'm pissed, and I'm wondering why ya'll aren't.

By: crunchland

crunchland — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 18:34:51 -0800

Didn't do it to me.

By: wanderingmind

wanderingmind — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 21:36:37 -0800

Didn't resize my browser either, but they don't seem to credit Moby anywhere for the music (it's "Down Slow", off of "Play").

By: onegreeneye

onegreeneye — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 23:39:58 -0800

The closet in my childhood room opened on the other end into my parents' closet. It used to be fun to vanish from my room and appear in theirs until...it wasn't. ("My eyes! Oh God! My eyes!" You get the picture. Yeesh.)

By: sotonohito

sotonohito — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 03:14:09 -0800

odigity: mine resized to about half width, then resized back to full screen. I have no idea why it did that, but I'll admit its annoying when a website resizes your browser.

By: OmieWise

OmieWise — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 06:41:28 -0800

Pretty f-ing cool! Of course, I was just at the Anne Frank House a couple of weeks ago, where the idea of a secret room had a meaning far beyond fun.

By: Sk4n

Sk4n — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 07:24:35 -0800

We didn't have a secret passageway, but we used to escape down the laundry chute from our bedrooms, bypassing the ground floor into the basement.

By: uni verse

uni verse — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 09:38:13 -0800

Just in the way the animation is done the chair turning into a slide is creepy. (In video->animations).

By: mammary16

mammary16 — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 11:35:30 -0800

I've always wished for a tunnel, or any kind of hidden place where I can pick off intruders with my composite bow.

By: OmieWise

OmieWise — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 11:49:19 -0800

mammary16 writes "I've always wished for a tunnel, or any kind of hidden place where I can pick off intruders with my composite bow." Thats' like something out of The Burrow by Kafka.

By: crunchland

crunchland — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 12:00:59 -0800

camper.

By: mammary16

mammary16 — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 12:11:10 -0800

What's that? A teddy bear? Pick it up. Hey, there's a note on it! Lemme see... "Turn around" What the - THUNK! Damn that arrow smarts!

By: crocos

crocos — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 20:58:35 -0800

Did anyone else think "Scooby Doo" when they saw the revolving fireplace?

By: recurve

recurve — Sat, 04 Mar 2006 09:29:02 -0800

no.