Secret under stairs room

It’s finished! Whew! Three weeks from the start of the project, when you might recall, it looked like this: A concrete floor… Concrete block walls which Glenn had just begun to cover with the pine bead board… But we did have a door! And here’s what it looks like now. Let’s take a peek inside, […]

Remember that closet under the stairs? We turned it into a temporary hangout for my girls for fun. It will go back to being a boring closet right when we get the office finished, but they’re having a blast with it for the time being!

Years ago I lived in a studio apartment in New York City on a super-quaint West Village street. I loved the location — the actual apartment not so much — and imagined, due to my love of the immediate neighborhood, I might live there, for maybe the rest of my life. A major drawback to…

A DIY-loving couple looking for extra storage space in their home decided to utilise the hidden room under their stairs, adding a nifty hinged cupboard right beneath their feet. While some people c…

For centuries, people have been locking up their most precious possessions in a variety of secret rooms and compartments. Whether it’s hidden chambers in Egyptian pyramids, mysterious passages in medieval castles or speakeasies during the Prohibition era, it seems that we've gotten pretty good at it over the years.