The door should have pushed into the secret room. That way you can seal the front wall with trim and not see the door and also means it won't open out on to her clothes.
with the deapth of this door, if you push it inwards the 45 degree roof/cieling stops it after 10cm. You can see at 2:10 how small the room is or at 12:29
Yup. Also, the finish is awful and is basically shit glued together and plywood. The jinge interfering with the hinge opn top looks awful and is telling as well.
The first half of the ruclips.net/user/postUgkx3ICSK6nSknaL_45CU2NmFSoXjarGMDiJ book is everything about wood: types, tools, finishes, setting up shop etc. The second half is all about doing projects for inside and outside of the home. The color pictures are helpful. After reading a dozen of these types of books, this is probably the best overall (layout, color photos, plans). Only detraction is that many of the projects use a table saw/router/planer, which are usually expensive and take up space, so the plans are less friendly to newcomers and the budget conscious. But I know I can use a drill, circular saw or a jigsaw to make the projects.
She always had the room, it's just now secret with the bookcase instead of door, but it's pretty obvious something is up with that book case cause it's trimmed out like a door cept for oops we forgot about that little part that would be going in instead of out. The solution, I think would be to nail it above the door instead of to the door, but that's just a thought.
One of the best hidden room stories I have heard is from Turkey. In the 1960s a man in the Cappadocia region was clearing his cellar and uncovered a door that lead to an abandoned underground city that went down eight levels and could have housed ten thousand people.
There is a whole world underneath us. Where do you think the millions who go missing each year go? Especially children.. The diamond steak caviar currency of the elites. Area 51 is 140 levels of pure evil. The deeper the level the more dark and twisted and depraved it gets.
@@1888.cfc. "Area 51 is 140 levels of pure evil" This is what happens in "The Internet Age". People will believe any silly thing. Turn off your devices and just go for a hike. Get some perspective.
Instead of the complicated spring loaded dowel with cables and pulleys, you could have just made the dowel the axle attached to the locking bar. The mechanism would be simple and less likely to malfunction. A quick twist of the dowel lifts the bar and unlocks the door. If the length of the bar makes it awkward or too heavy to unlock by turning the dowel, adding a bit of counterweight would fix that.
That sounds great until you have wood twisting inside of wood with weighted friction a few dozen times. So, you would still end up with the same amount of engineering since you'd need to get some bearings, match and countersink them for that purpose to prevent wear and still keep the outward appearance correct, keeping it internally locked in position so you don't need a limiting washer on the outside identifying which one it is, etc. Either way is fine, the way they did it is just simple, cheap, and it's a fun mechanism.
I just have certain spot I put something steel against on my book case which then the magnet draws to the metal unlocking door.. 4 years n still never malfunctioned
@@MandrakeDCR I think a ball bearing ring set into the door with the dowel passing through would work then he could have a thin wood ring covering / holding the ring in place
@@TheFallenFaob I'm sure it would work, but the whole point of it was to have something visually fun for his daughter. Not to mention, you're still talking about a lot of extra detail work for no good reason other than 'for the sake of it'. If you're going to do that, then just simplify it and do a magnet catch. No muss, no fuss - but then you don't have any fun gadgetry to look at once you're inside your little secret room.
Prawject! Great job. Remind your daughter to leave lights off if she has to go in there because of intruders. Light can give her location away. Really great use of space.
How fun! As a child I always wished for a hidden fort. At age 70+ I am still wanting a secret room. You guys did such a good job! Quick question ~ Is the upper left corner of the door/shelving unit intentionally missing the finishing trim or is it an oversight? Couldn't take my eyes off it. Thank you. Love your work.
Very cool prawject, unfinished plywood is not my thing thought -- I made a hidden compartment in giant 12 foot long wall unit in the basement, and as time consuming as it was, everything was sanded smooth edge banded(where exposed) and finished with BLO. For a closet, since the plywood looks to be paint grade, I'd stain it or paint it. Leaving it raw, gives it a basement furniture vibe to me.
@@tdgrogan a peephole would give it away I think. would work with a camera, like if she has a computer desk having a facecam just wired to a small screen in her secret room ( could even get a fish eye facecam so it has a greater field of view. Just my opinion tho.
@@olehbakklund2828 just like a webcam on the pc streaming to her phone should do the Trick 😅 But if you do that, make sure to add a lens flap to cover it for Privacy purposes when irs not in use, because yeah that may make people paranoid 😇😉
Prawjects! I throughly enjoyed your video and the wonderful secret room update for your daughter. Awesome time spent doing something wonderful for your girl. This will be a life time memory she’ll share and cherish.
Great hidden room! I don't have my house anymore (it got to be too much work for my 70 old years) BUT I did help my son put one in for my grand daughter as her safety room. It even had an emergency phone line...and it's own toilet room.
Isn't that a bit different though? This guy just knew about a space and made into something fun. Your project was making a panic room for a purpose. Does your family expect the purge to happen at the home anytime soon?
YES!!! That room is already pretty small. Putting those boxes in there makes it even smaller. If you HAVE to have them, make them shelving units with thick banding for all the hardware you added. Also, terrible preplanning not to realize that your door will stick out from your wall by a half a foot. Big oops.
The thing about hidden rooms that everyone seems to forget is ventilation. There is NO fresh air coming into that room. There are enough holes in that setup to let some oxygen in but it is going to be stuffy as hell. You need some AC venting in there or 1-2 people will roast each other from their own body heat and the humidity from their breath. You don't even need a full-sized vent, just a small one made out of that foil slinky tubing that people use to connect their dryers to outside air, and a vent tacked onto the end where it comes out of the wall. If your AC installers used that square fiberglass duct board crap, be sure to shut off the AC first and then vacuum out around the hole inside and out. You don't want fiberglass fibers blasting out of your vents.
Prawject!! So neat!! Love dads like this! While at the doctors office as a 12 year old, a magazine I was looking at had a neat setup with a ‘top bunkbed’ with a ladder at the end of the setup and a study room underneath it… fell in love. Ok, ok, did a kid thing and quietly tore the picture out of the magazine and took it home to show my dad. That was a Friday and before the weekend was over I had a similar setup in my small room.. only difference was no door on the study (mom nixed it😛 so I had a bamboo bead curtain.. 70s then😁). Used it tilI I left home after high school. Fond memories from decades past.
It's all in how you look at it. I would have loved a secret room as a kid. Speaking if nightmares, a home invasion would be a nightmare. A secret room with a hidden entrance would be great to have in that case.
“Prawject”. This was fun to watch. Too complicated for me to follow completely but still fun. Chloe is a lucky child to have such a clever dad and his friend to do this for her! 🇺🇸MesquiteTX
Johnny awesome video this week. This is most definitely unique project. Can't wait to see more builds. Keep up the great craftsmanship and hard work my friend. Keep making. God bless.
Great prawject, 2 things tho, you should put some kind of peephole so she can see into her room & you shouldn't have just let everyone know how to enter her secret room with this video.
It’s cool, but…… doesn’t everybody knows the secret door now? 😅 Also it looks very fragile, you could build the important parts with metal for security 👮♂️
Wow. I did one in a closet with 10% of the complexity in the video, and it is hidden because it just looks like the wall. Nice build here, but way over engineered.
@@EdurtreG We have moved... Imagine a cedar lined wall in a closet, with a push to release door with offset cedar boards on kitchen cabinet hidden hinges (a non square door). It was invisible, and the clothes we had in front of it hid it even more. It was a four by six foot room, ceiling height. We listed it without telling the agent or prospective buyers. After the offer was accepted, we showed them the door. It is a secret.
I should add that I used some cardboard to space the cedar boards. That way the gap on the ends of the door boards matched all of the other boards on the wall. Invisible.
prawject. Great idea and I would have loved a hidden room when I was growing up. I’d love one now. I hope your daughter loves it. Great idea Chris and Dad. Hope it doesn’t get too hot in there. Have fun from Australia 🐨
I really hoped you checked for asbestos before demo as it appeared that it may be a older home and the plaster I saw generally contains some, at least wear dust masks n95
Imagine having such an Awesome father who would have made you such a nice room. Some place you can just hang with your friends after school. She must feel very lucky :)
When I had 15 year old we rent a large house 3 floors very very old house castell style and one day by causality I found a secret passage inside the wall that could be walk for the hole house and the floors, some time later my father also found a secret room empty only inside a table 2 chair a big chain with a shackle and a strange tool that we could never know what it was for
Creepy, prolly a torture room, or maybe used for a little light S&M... Thinking 50 shades... lol... Very curious what this unknown tool looked like... For historical purposes, obv... He he...
I heard you mention McMaster Carr in a couple of your videos. I have been on their website many times, while researching parts at my last job. 2.5 yrs of searching specs for washers, bearings, belts, and the like was pretty fun!!
The door should have pushed into the secret room. That way you can seal the front wall with trim and not see the door and also means it won't open out on to her clothes.
@@wrk3182 also the bar across the front of the door
So true! That upper left corner of the front trim bugged my OCD, wish it was hidden better!
The wall is different materials and colours and the indent where the door is also screams something is there.
with the deapth of this door, if you push it inwards the 45 degree roof/cieling stops it after 10cm. You can see at 2:10 how small the room is or at 12:29
Yup. Also, the finish is awful and is basically shit glued together and plywood. The jinge interfering with the hinge opn top looks awful and is telling as well.
The first half of the ruclips.net/user/postUgkx3ICSK6nSknaL_45CU2NmFSoXjarGMDiJ book is everything about wood: types, tools, finishes, setting up shop etc. The second half is all about doing projects for inside and outside of the home. The color pictures are helpful. After reading a dozen of these types of books, this is probably the best overall (layout, color photos, plans). Only detraction is that many of the projects use a table saw/router/planer, which are usually expensive and take up space, so the plans are less friendly to newcomers and the budget conscious. But I know I can use a drill, circular saw or a jigsaw to make the projects.
She can now clean her room SO FAST with a place to shove everything out of sight!
She always had the room, it's just now secret with the bookcase instead of door, but it's pretty obvious something is up with that book case cause it's trimmed out like a door cept for oops we forgot about that little part that would be going in instead of out. The solution, I think would be to nail it above the door instead of to the door, but that's just a thought.
lol
hi
Ha! Yes indeed. Same principle as "everything in the oven"!
She could also shove her bf out of sight…
One of the best hidden room stories I have heard is from Turkey. In the 1960s a man in the Cappadocia region was clearing his cellar and uncovered a door that lead to an abandoned underground city that went down eight levels and could have housed ten thousand people.
Yep thats the ancient underground city of Derinkuyu such a cool find
There is a whole world underneath us.
Where do you think the millions who go missing each year go? Especially children.. The diamond steak caviar currency of the elites.
Area 51 is 140 levels of pure evil. The deeper the level the more dark and twisted and depraved it gets.
@@1888.cfc. ...wat?
@@1888.cfc. I like how your picture is Santa but your talking about conspiracies
@@1888.cfc. "Area 51 is 140 levels of pure evil"
This is what happens in "The Internet Age".
People will believe any silly thing. Turn off your devices and just go for a hike. Get some perspective.
Instead of the complicated spring loaded dowel with cables and pulleys, you could have just made the dowel the axle attached to the locking bar. The mechanism would be simple and less likely to malfunction. A quick twist of the dowel lifts the bar and unlocks the door. If the length of the bar makes it awkward or too heavy to unlock by turning the dowel, adding a bit of counterweight would fix that.
That sounds great until you have wood twisting inside of wood with weighted friction a few dozen times. So, you would still end up with the same amount of engineering since you'd need to get some bearings, match and countersink them for that purpose to prevent wear and still keep the outward appearance correct, keeping it internally locked in position so you don't need a limiting washer on the outside identifying which one it is, etc.
Either way is fine, the way they did it is just simple, cheap, and it's a fun mechanism.
Magnets. End of. 🤷♂️
I just have certain spot I put something steel against on my book case which then the magnet draws to the metal unlocking door.. 4 years n still never malfunctioned
@@MandrakeDCR I think a ball bearing ring set into the door with the dowel passing through would work then he could have a thin wood ring covering / holding the ring in place
@@TheFallenFaob I'm sure it would work, but the whole point of it was to have something visually fun for his daughter. Not to mention, you're still talking about a lot of extra detail work for no good reason other than 'for the sake of it'. If you're going to do that, then just simplify it and do a magnet catch. No muss, no fuss - but then you don't have any fun gadgetry to look at once you're inside your little secret room.
Prawject! Great job. Remind your daughter to leave lights off if she has to go in there because of intruders. Light can give her location away. Really great use of space.
yeah that is true
What a lucky young woman your daughter is, to have such an amazing dad
How fun! As a child I always wished for a hidden fort. At age 70+ I am still wanting a secret room. You guys did such a good job!
Quick question ~ Is the upper left corner of the door/shelving unit intentionally missing the finishing trim or is it an oversight? Couldn't take my eyes off it. Thank you. Love your work.
Very cool prawject, unfinished plywood is not my thing thought -- I made a hidden compartment in giant 12 foot long wall unit in the basement, and as time consuming as it was, everything was sanded smooth edge banded(where exposed) and finished with BLO. For a closet, since the plywood looks to be paint grade, I'd stain it or paint it. Leaving it raw, gives it a basement furniture vibe to me.
Some people like the honey colour of the wood, though.
Prawject lol I love this 😂
And now the entire planet knows your daughter has a "secret" room in her closet and how to open it 😁😁
There's a secret room in the secret room
😉
Trust me the pets will use it after she is to old for her hiding place.
You mean 300k people know not the whole world silly goose
N yet they wont have any luck gettin into the house
Oh man, watching this makes me want to come back and visit/move in… Love Chloe’s reaction.
All she needs now is a camera so she can see who's outside the door before coming back out :-)
I thought peephole!
@@tdgrogan a peephole would give it away I think. would work with a camera, like if she has a computer desk having a facecam just wired to a small screen in her secret room ( could even get a fish eye facecam so it has a greater field of view. Just my opinion tho.
@@olehbakklund2828 just like a webcam on the pc streaming to her phone should do the Trick 😅
But if you do that, make sure to add a lens flap to cover it for Privacy purposes when irs not in use, because yeah that may make people paranoid 😇😉
I am utterly jealous of your daughter's hidden room! That is super cool and her reaction made me smile.
You're a great dad and your daughter's sweetheart disposition is a reflection of that. Well done all around!
That was real neat. I am surprised that you didn’t paint it and finish it so that it blends in with the rest of the room.
Prawjects! I throughly enjoyed your video and the wonderful secret room update for your daughter. Awesome time spent doing something wonderful for your girl. This will be a life time memory she’ll share and cherish.
Great hidden room! I don't have my house anymore (it got to be too much work for my 70 old years) BUT I did help my son put one in for my grand daughter as her safety room. It even had an emergency phone line...and it's own toilet room.
Isn't that a bit different though? This guy just knew about a space and made into something fun. Your project was making a panic room for a purpose. Does your family expect the purge to happen at the home anytime soon?
@@Danielson1818 If it’s hidden it’s hidden
Did you consider making that trim box a shelving unit instead? Storage is always good!
YES!!! That room is already pretty small. Putting those boxes in there makes it even smaller. If you HAVE to have them, make them shelving units with thick banding for all the hardware you added.
Also, terrible preplanning not to realize that your door will stick out from your wall by a half a foot. Big oops.
Boring, her room her choice.
@@bjornanderson3645 Not sure she got consulted.
@@crasor5780 yes girls are weak and can't make their own decisions 🙃👍🏻
The thing about hidden rooms that everyone seems to forget is ventilation. There is NO fresh air coming into that room. There are enough holes in that setup to let some oxygen in but it is going to be stuffy as hell. You need some AC venting in there or 1-2 people will roast each other from their own body heat and the humidity from their breath. You don't even need a full-sized vent, just a small one made out of that foil slinky tubing that people use to connect their dryers to outside air, and a vent tacked onto the end where it comes out of the wall. If your AC installers used that square fiberglass duct board crap, be sure to shut off the AC first and then vacuum out around the hole inside and out. You don't want fiberglass fibers blasting out of your vents.
Prawject accomplished!!😊💕
Awesome build!! What a great "prawject". Would've loved to have had something like this when I was younger.
Prawject!! So neat!! Love dads like this! While at the doctors office as a 12 year old, a magazine I was looking at had a neat setup with a ‘top bunkbed’ with a ladder at the end of the setup and a study room underneath it… fell in love. Ok, ok, did a kid thing and quietly tore the picture out of the magazine and took it home to show my dad. That was a Friday and before the weekend was over I had a similar setup in my small room.. only difference was no door on the study (mom nixed it😛 so I had a bamboo bead curtain.. 70s then😁). Used it tilI I left home after high school. Fond memories from decades past.
I really like the concept of hidden rooms! The locking mechanism was really cool!!! Great job with the prawject!
Her boyfriend is going to LOVE that room...
Hidden room in daughter closet sounds like stuff that fuels nightmares.
My dad would have found a way to get rid of that room. No lie!
Thought the same lol
It's all in how you look at it. I would have loved a secret room as a kid.
Speaking if nightmares, a home invasion would be a nightmare. A secret room with a hidden entrance would be great to have in that case.
@@susanfarley1332 No nightmares if its YOUR secret room.
@@katehenry2718 isn't that what my comment meant? I was trying to convey that
I think it is a fun, nifty & practical 'quiet room'. Forget all the negativity, Cloe loves it as it is. Don from South Aust.
“Prawject”. This was fun to watch. Too complicated for me to follow completely but still fun. Chloe is a lucky child to have such a clever dad and his friend to do this for her! 🇺🇸MesquiteTX
Praw-ject
Pro-ject
And if we repeat it:
re-ject
I will climb back into my "hidden room" now.
The epic slo-mo gearing up shot at the beginning is fantastic. I love it
Johnny awesome video this week. This is most definitely unique project. Can't wait to see more builds. Keep up the great craftsmanship and hard work my friend. Keep making. God bless.
Pretty fantastic work, Jonny! 😃
It really turned out great!
Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
Awesome. Just what's needed in South African homes as a safety feature.
Any plan to finish trimming out around the door? Top left looks unfinished
I love the idea on this, very cool & so many possibilities to do what you need.
Great prawject, 2 things tho, you should put some kind of peephole so she can see into her room & you shouldn't have just let everyone know how to enter her secret room with this video.
Really cool. Your daughter was really excited.
As a bonus, in case of a breaking your daughter has a safe place to hide where the assailant wouldn't know about unless they watched your video.
at least then he would know that the "locals" have been watching
Yeah
Those Rixson pivot hinges are super useful.....but, yes, they can be a pain to install especially if the door is very large and heavy.
This video was wholesome AF. I can’t wait til my boy is older to do stuff like this 😁
We strive to provide family friendly content 🤣
Now I want a tee shirt that says “wholesome AF”!
How fun is this!! This is every teens dream. Thanks for sharing!
Jonny Builds featuring Chris, coming out of the closet ......... 😄 😁 😆 😅 😂 🤣
Hey, wait a second. Haha
Haha!!
Hi, great work. Prawject. What a great dad your daughter has!
It’s cool, but…… doesn’t everybody knows the secret door now? 😅 Also it looks very fragile, you could build the important parts with metal for security 👮♂️
Only the 1,120,502 views so far!
Wow....such a fun project! Your daughter is the luckiest girl ever 🥰
Sounds like it was just a loft space for storage rather than a "secret room" , which is common in houses with triangular ceiling lines
That is very cool! With teenager or even adult wouldn’t want to have a secret room in their house.
Should have kept a narrow door that could open all the way instead of the wider one that doesn’t open all the way.
Let's make a big door for a girl says big men😏
Awesome prawject !!
Wow. I did one in a closet with 10% of the complexity in the video, and it is hidden because it just looks like the wall. Nice build here, but way over engineered.
Can you show us?
@@EdurtreG We have moved... Imagine a cedar lined wall in a closet, with a push to release door with offset cedar boards on kitchen cabinet hidden hinges (a non square door). It was invisible, and the clothes we had in front of it hid it even more. It was a four by six foot room, ceiling height.
We listed it without telling the agent or prospective buyers. After the offer was accepted, we showed them the door. It is a secret.
I should add that I used some cardboard to space the cedar boards. That way the gap on the ends of the door boards matched all of the other boards on the wall. Invisible.
The dog during the intro timelapse had me chuckling. Twitchy lil' cutie XD
I would definitely love to have a room like that
prawject. Great idea and I would have loved a hidden room when I was growing up. I’d love one now. I hope your daughter loves it. Great idea Chris and Dad. Hope it doesn’t get too hot in there. Have fun from Australia 🐨
Vacuuming the rug in that room is going to be a huge pain
That’s Awesome
Hi how are you doing?
“Let’s make a secret, panic room. Nobody will know!”
….puts it on RUclips
Wow! That's amazing!😳
I really hoped you checked for asbestos before demo as it appeared that it may be a older home and the plaster I saw generally contains some, at least wear dust masks n95
Imagine having such an Awesome father who would have made you such a nice room. Some place you can just hang with your friends after school.
She must feel very lucky :)
When I had 15 year old we rent a large house 3 floors very very old house castell style and one day by causality I found a secret passage inside the wall that could be walk for the hole house and the floors, some time later my father also found a secret room empty only inside a table 2 chair a big chain with a shackle and a strange tool that we could never know what it was for
Spooky.
You found the servants corridor most likely. As for the room, insufficient data. :-)
Creepy, prolly a torture room, or maybe used for a little light S&M... Thinking 50 shades... lol... Very curious what this unknown tool looked like... For historical purposes, obv... He he...
She now has an awesome space of her own and safety . Great job
Cool project, excellent execution. Gotta say: what a great dad you are!
Awesome job! Love the humor with the Canadian ❤❤ I'm a little bias though 🇨🇦🍁
You should have painted it white, it would have been a better finish.
What a nice and incredible Dad to do this for his little girl.
What a wholesome dad!!!
Her secret room is priceless. Do you see how much plywood was used?? Its a small fortune!
Very nice prawject. Love secret rooms especially for kids and grown up kids.
You are a good father … wowzer that was technical. Loved it.
That’s was cool secret door
Hi how are you doing?
What an amazing build, what an amazing step-dad!!
Great build! Prawject! ;)
As a Canadian, I can confirm that Maple Syrup chugging. Is face check true. We all enjoy a nice refreshing drink of syrup to rehydrate! 😂😂😂
This was an awesome prawject!! I would love this.
Clever building Prawject! Love it!
Prawject!
Awesome build :)
I heard you mention McMaster Carr in a couple of your videos. I have been on their website many times, while researching parts at my last job. 2.5 yrs of searching specs for washers, bearings, belts, and the like was pretty fun!!
You did a great job.
I'm glad she likes it.
I love this .. it’s your daughter’s little sanctuary or she shed 🤩
This PAWJECT was amazing. Any girl’s dream to have a secret room in her room.
The secret room is so cool! I always wanted a house with hidden rooms, and other secret features.
Prawject! Very cool build.
Prawject) Was fun to watch, hope she really loves it and use it!
Nice built!! But did i miss a small trim piece above the door? ;)
Awesome "prawject"! Forget big kitchens and spacious bathrooms. Secret rooms is the most important part of home building!
I love homes with hidden rooms or hidden storage areas.
WOW - I thought it was awesome that you had found a secret room - but it's perfect now with the door and locking system you made!
Very cool build!
So fun and cool!
Awesome design. I do worry about those nylon washers drifting out of place over time, though, with the notch cut out of them.
Such a fun prawject to watch! I love how it turned out
pretty cool, the daughter has a nice chill out place now 👍
"Prawject"
Sweet Build ❣ Thanks for sharing 👍🏼
Cool! Make a secret room, with a very hidden way to access the room . . . then tell EVERYONE ABOUT IT ON YOU TUBE!
YEAH, SECRET
“Prawject” :) Fun build and very fun to watch!
What a great prawject! Well done!
Super cool!!!
Prawject. Cool build!
You and Chris are a hoot!
Prawject! Awesome project.
Nice Prawject. Very creative.
Awesome...Hello from Arlington Washington state PNW 🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲