Blueprint Hidden Bookcase Door Plans
Sub step 4 sketch the jambs.
Blueprint hidden bookcase door plans. The doors slide open along a steel roller system at the top and the bottom to reveal the secret room. First measure how wide the bookshelf will need to be to cover the door. If you have ever desired a hidden door in your home this hidden door project from gary katz one of the best ones that i have come across. Then determine whether or not you can put the bookcase far enough away from the soon to be hidden door that it can swing outwards without hitting any neighboring walls or furniture.
Book case plan click here to see a free plan for a wall book shelf plan. Rustic wood bookshelf plan. He shows a close up pic of the hinges pivots and the caster wheels he uses below the shelf that are hidden by wooden panels at the bottom of the bookcase. Since this is an outswing shelf and uses wheels it might develop.
May 15 2014 free hidden door plans how to build a hidden door for a safe room. When brooke wrote yearn tree state asking to trace up plans for. The opened bookcase will take up to 13 1 2 or more inches of the door opening. The bifold style doors look like a typical bookcase when they re closed.
Bookcase 4 door 5 hidden 1 pivot 1. Cut a rabbet to accommodate the 1 4 plywood for the back 6 mm but measure it make it about 10 mm 3 8 wide so fixing it to the back is easy. These bookcase doors from woodfold manufacturing are perfect for disguising the secret entrance. 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.
Rip one board 185 mm 7 1 4 wide out of each left over piece. Build a built in wall bookcase with a door opening. Hidden door bookcase plans woodworking plans blueprints download wood cart blueprintsstorage bed plans king how to build double wood fence gate free wood toy box patterns secret bookcase door diy hidden door bookcase plans secret bookcase free hidden door bookcase plans threshold plans. Make sure that the hidden door won t swing into the bookshelf either.
Bookcase door plans hidden door. I have been thinking of building a hidden bookcase door myself but i was a bit hung up on how to hinge it and how. In fact you can even load up the shelves with 500 lbs. Of books or knickknacks.
With the right plans materials and equipment you can construct a hidden door to a safe room as shown here. Featured wood plans indoor plans february 1 2013 woodworkcity 0. Ana white has a free bookshelf plan that will get you this beautiful rustic wood bookshelf made of solid pine boards. How to make a secret bookcase door to hide a safe room.
Must begin with a closet opening to a closet or secret safe room. Mark these two pieces inside left and inside right. Hidden door bookcase here is a great how to article with pics on this small secret bookcase door concealing a closet. It is now time to sketch out the door jambs.
Each bookcase door has a fixed middle. This bookshelf plan includes step by step instructions photos diagrams.