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This is not what they advertise. Only one hidden room? I've seen a better one at the Gillette Castle in Southern Connecticut. The hidden room was above the bathroom complete with a fireplace. This is bunk when there is only this one photo. Why advertise "Hidden Rooms" if there is only one to be shown?
i always wanted to buy an old house with hidded room that was use for runaway slave. a long time ago on HGTV a guy was show his and i saw another and the person love it but didnt want to sell it. to bad i live in the Northeast hard to find them. they are hard to find on the market and people who own those house dont even sell them, their kids would be the one selling them.
Must be a very slow news day at MSN, they are starting to recycle old articles again
It's very convenient, but when the thief is in a home invasion they know how to find anything, And for the rich husband, who care? I like to live in peace......they all trouble, and a very happy person, working for myself and traveling the world by myself................see ya!
What's the big secret?
By Leah L. Culler of MSN Real Estate
A hidden room or secret passageway isn't any fun if it's not hidden well. We've gathered images of entryways hidden in all sorts of homes. Take a look at these pictures and see whether you'd know there was more than meets the eye.
If you're stumped, click through to the next image to see what it looks like when the room or passageway is open.
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This wall of bookcases in Arizona sure looks fancy. If you weren't reading about secret rooms, would you suspect that one could be concealed here?
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What's the big secret?
Pulling one of the books on the shelf causes two of the bookcases to unlock and open automatically, revealing a vault room. Steven Humble of Creative Home Engineering, which designed the setup, says this is one of his favorite bookcase projects.
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It's just a wall, right? There's no way this wall and the nearby grand piano could somehow work together to do something magical.
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Aha! When the proper tune is played on the piano, this wall opens to reveal a passageway that connects two remote sides of a home in Colorado. You go through a hall, up a stairway and exit through another passageway.
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These built-in bookcases are in the basement of a home in Montana. Architect Andrew Porth designed the house as a second home for the Gorum family from Georgia. The family's children, ages 20 and 17, had one request: a hidden room.
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What's the big secret?
Porth found a way to work a hidden room into the basement. The bookcase is on rails attached to the ceiling, but has a catch on it so it stays shut unless pushed on with significant force. Other than a few electrical outlets and light fixtures, the room remains unfinished. It's up to the kids to figure out what to do with it.
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This dresser, in a home in South Dakota, was part of a home makeover for "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition," on ABC. Yes, those are real, working drawers.
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If you turn the hands of one of the clocks to 12, the secret door opens. The passageway leads to a young boy's secret spy room.
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There's something hidden in this home in Arizona, but where?
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The entire staircase lifts up when activated by remote control, revealing a playroom.
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This fireplace was part of Creative Home Engineering's display at the International Builders Show one year, but what's so special about it?
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What's the big secret?
The fireplace slides over, revealing a secret room. It's activated by what appears to be an ordinary chess set nearby.
"You could play a round of chess and never know it was a key," Humble says. It's wireless; so as long as it's within 100 feet, it can open the door.
There's another way to open the fireplace door, and this one is really something taken right out of a TV show — the old "Batman" series, to be specific. Remember the Shakespeare bust that had a secret button to open a passageway? Well, if you tilt back the head on this bust, you find a fingerprint scanner that triggers the fireplace.
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