13 Mar Extraordinary Hidden Door Ideas
Secret doors are so popular that they’ve become a social media trend for homeowners who want to take their interior design creativity to a new level. Personalizing your home is exciting and Instagram-worthy, so homeowners are getting more creative with their renovation projects by making them function as security features. Your interior design upgrades can protect your loved ones at the same time. Here’s how the Creative Home Engineering team turns hidden door plans into stealth storage solutions, secret rooms, and more.
Design Tips for Maintaining the Ultimate Discretion
Poorly designed hidden door ideas don’t stay hidden for long. People can easily locate an interior entrance if they see hinges, a standard doorknob or a frame’s outline. The imaginative crew at Creative Home Engineering knows how to maintain discretion with design and precision engineering. Our experience ensures homeowners know to include details like:
- External materials that match the rest of your interior design
- Specialized hinges that open up and out to prevent things like hidden stairway doors from opening in a way the space can’t accommodate
- Safety options to prevent wall features from falling, like hanging wine bottles, books, and picture frames
We also know which top-of-the-line security features are available to make your new doorway more robust. Trusting your living space to a practiced team makes all the difference in quality, style, and safety.
The Creative Home Engineering team has made thousands of security-focused secret doors into realities that might work in your house.
Inspired Secret Door Ideas
Hidden door designs are unique opportunities to make any household safer. We love taking on difficult projects that contractors might say aren’t possible, but we’re experts at making the impossible possible. No ideas are too ambitious when it comes to making your home feel safe and look beautiful:
1. Convert The Room Under Your Staircase
Staircase doors are popular because they focus on unutilized space. The empty wall beneath your staircase could turn into a bookshelf made with cherry wood that appears built in as a permanent fixture. When you tug on the frame or activate the opening mechanism with a fake book, the door will open to reveal things like extra storage, an office or a reading nook.
This is also a notable design idea for individuals with customized staircases. For example, commercial buildings need stairs measuring 36 inches wide and at least 11 inches deep, per the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Hidden doors beneath the stairs don’t alter the specific sizing, making it easy for owners to have the secret doors they prefer.
2. Rotate Your Fireplace
Your fireplace might be a fixed household feature, but it could become a hidden passageway. The Creative Home Engineering experts know how to convert fireplaces into doors with heavy-duty electromagnetic locking systems that rotate the entire unit. Select exterior materials matching the rest of the room, and no one will be able to guess there’s a door behind the fire keeping them warm. Rotating fireplace secret passageways typically use electric fireplace inserts, but could safely contain a real fire given the right circumstances.
3. Add a Decorative Telephone Booth
Fans of Superman, Get Smart or Dr. Who would love to convert a telephone booth into a secret passage. You can pass right through the back wall into your secret room. Your vintage phone booth could even include the wiring to operate as a regular phone if that’s what you want for your home, and we can even use special glass that can switch between transparent and opaque on command. Clients regularly dream up new requests, unlike anything that existed before.
4. Make a Mirror Your Newest Doorway
Oversized hanging mirrors make lovely secret doors. Consider where you have one now, such as a bathroom, bedroom or hallway. The design team could make a doorway with the mirror’s dimensions to replicate it, even down to the gold leaf trim or vintage frame. An auto-open feature and a secret switch will be all you need to make a hidden door to another area of your house.
5. Hide a Door With Wall Accents
Don’t worry if you don’t think you have a space that could convert into a doorway. You can make any wall a secret door design with accents. The hallway wall covered in beige paint could transform into a stunning stone veneer. Program the wall to open after you press a specific combination in the stones and you’ll gain a hidden passageway wherever you have wall space.
For an extra wow factor, consider doors hidden while open. They can remain open until someone enters, closing behind them without them even realizing they were walking through a door.
If you’d rather install a secure door that doubles in functionality, design one with a built-in hanging wine rack. One of the bottles could be fake, doubling as the handle you pull to open the secret door to a more extensive wine cellar, closet or storage space.
6. Turn a Wall Into a Pocket Door
Pocket doors are highly secure hidden passageways that slide into the wall instead of swinging outward. This option is particularly popular with clients who would like a discrete panic room that doubles as a space that they can use for other purposes. It’s a clever, minimalist door style that works where hinges can’t fit in a doorframe or traditional doorways. No matter where you install your pocket door, the motorization and secure materials ensure no one can get through without your permission. As long as you have accurate measurements, designers will create a unique pocket door with your approval.
Creative Home Engineering Can Work in Any House
Anyone can enjoy hidden doors in their home, even if they have unique decorating tastes. Dream big with examples like these to design a door that matches your home. The sky is the limit and our team loves hearing the fascinating ideas clients come up with.
Creative Home Engineering makes interior design dreams come to life. Our expert team crafts design plans for each client’s unique needs and preferences. Learn more about how we create hidden doors by contacting us today and discussing how we can add a secret passageway to your home.