Making A Bookcase Door

With a few tools and materials you can build your own bookcase that doubles as a secret door into a crawlspace or attic.

Making a bookcase door.

Build the bookcase in the frame. Note if a different size opening or bookcase in in the plans proceed the same way but ensuring that the plywood is large enough to accommodate. Build a bookshelf into a door. We were presented with options from a small single door to full wall bookcase with one bookcase being the secret.

This hidden bookcase was build for a customer who didn t like the existing shelving. He shows a close up pic of the hinges pivots and the caster wheels he uses below the shelf that. He also wanted a place to hide all his av equipment. Making the secret bookshelf door was interesting.

How to build your own fake bookcase to hide a secret door. Build the bookcase into and around the frame. Rob has come up with a super smart and super effective idea. Also shows how to create fake books.

Attic rooms and areas under stairs often have crawlspace storage behind the. Who wouldn t welcome more storage into their home. The opened bookcase will take up to 13 1 2 or more inches of the door opening. You can make the swinging bookcase 2in 5cm shallower than the other shelves to allow clearance behind it for when it is swung.

When sizing it be sure to verify the clearance.