Secret Book Case Rooms

[Paul Whybrow]

I think that I've found my favourite hotel in Amsterdam. Hotel No Hotel features extraordinarily themed suites, including Secret Book Case, whose various rooms are hidden behind swinging book cases.

http://www.hotelnothotel.com/rooms/

Even better, they have one-way windows, disguised as mirrors or paintings, so one can check if it's safe to come out!

I've been hiding behind books all of my life...

 

[Jennifer Stone]

That does look pretty cool tbf.

 

[Nicole Wilson]

This is my goal. If I ever have the money to build my own house, my husband and I are going to have secret rooms and a full library just like in Beauty and the Beast. And if they can be the same, even better.

 

[Jason Byrne]

I did the exact same thing when I was ten years old — made a list of all the features my house would include. Among them:
- A super-narrow two-story hallway, with upper-story doors opening onto thin air of the hallway
- Doors opening on an empty brick wall
- Stairs leading up to the ceiling
- A room painted and tiled completely in 1-inch (2.5 cm) black and white checkers, with a single black-and-white-checkered chair in the center
- Windows opening into the adjacent room
- Exterior doors on the walls of upper floors

It was an exciting house. Kind of like the Winchester Mystery House. Only I didn't know about that one yet.

 

[Nicole Wilson]

I did the exact same thing when I was ten years old — made a list of all the features my house would include. Among them:
- A super-narrow two-story hallway, with upper-story doors opening onto thin air of the hallway
- Doors opening on an empty brick wall
- Stairs leading up to the ceiling
- A room painted and tiled completely in 1-inch (2.5 cm) black and white checkers, with a single black-and-white-checkered chair in the center
- Windows opening into the adjacent room
- Exterior doors on the walls of upper floors

It was an exciting house. Kind of like the Winchester Mystery House. Only I didn't know about that one yet.

And of course the door opening to a tilted book in a bookshelf.

 

[Jason Byrne]

And of course the door opening to a tilted book in a bookshelf.

Exactly. Instructions on how to construct such a mechanism found here.

'Cause he never planned on actually picking up Great Expectations anyway...

 

[Nicole Wilson]

AWESOME. Guess who's going to be doing some work on their apartment this weekend???

 

[Jason Byrne]

AWESOME. Guess who's going to be doing some work on their apartment this weekend???

The switch has to open the fridge. It just has to...

 

[Marc Joan]

Fab fantasies. I share them. All of them. I also want a cellar with a concealed entrance to a tunnel that leads away from the house and eventually exits through a hollow oak tree. You climb up the inside of the tree to an artfully concealed tree house. It has a small stove for cold days.

 

[Jennifer Stone]

Only thing I really wanted in a dream house was a 'Beauty and the Beast' library, I think a lot of us here would agree with that. My bathroom would be decorated like a crime scene; you can get shower curtains and bath mats that are white when dry, but turn red when wet. My kitchen would look like a medieval torture chamber.
Barbie, eat your heart out!

 

[Nicole Wilson]

My bathroom would be decorated like a crime scene; you can get shower curtains and bath mats that are white when dry, but turn red when wet. My kitchen would look like a medieval torture chamber.
Barbie, eat your heart out!

WHERE CAN I FIND THESE MATS??

 

[Jennifer Stone]

I'll look for you, be a few minutes.

EDIT; http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Present-Store-Blood-Bath/dp/B002JE6D3I

 

[Jason Byrne]

I'll look for you, be a few minutes.

EDIT; http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Present-Store-Blood-Bath/dp/B002JE6D3I

Okay yeah that's awesome.

 

[Jason Byrne]

WHERE CAN I FIND THESE MATS??

Hahaha... you are actually that excited about these. That's awesome.

 

[Nicole Wilson]

Hahaha... you are actually that excited about these. That's awesome.

How can I not be excited? They make my bathroom into a crime scene. Though my current theme of Texans football is fun, this is way above that. There are few things more awesome than this.

I'll look for you, be a few minutes.

EDIT; http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Present-Store-Blood-Bath/dp/B002JE6D3I

Thank you! If you all will excuse me, I've got some online shopping to do.

 

[Marc Joan]

In my experience, two children can turn a bathroom into a crime scene pretty quickly.

 

[Quillwitch]

I think that I've found my favourite hotel in Amsterdam. Hotel No Hotel features extraordinarily themed suites, including Secret Book Case, whose various rooms are hidden behind swinging book cases.

http://www.hotelnothotel.com/rooms/

Even better, they have one-way windows, disguised as mirrors or paintings, so one can check if it's safe to come out!

I've been hiding behind books all of my life...

When I become a best selling author i´m going to make me one of those!

 

[Quillwitch]

Fab fantasies. I share them. All of them. I also want a cellar with a concealed entrance to a tunnel that leads away from the house and eventually exits through a hollow oak tree. You climb up the inside of the tree to an artfully concealed tree house. It has a small stove for cold days.

OH THAT IS OS AWESOME!!!!!!!