On the stairs looking into the kitchen and dining room beyond:
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Back bedroom / home office:
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From the dining room looking into the living room:
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In the living room looking south...that is just a temporary front door:
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From the same spot looking towards the dining room:
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The living room bookcases...there will be a panel on the mantel, but we need access to the vent for when the stove is installed:
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Neil is such a craftsman...all along I wanted to have a secret door/ bookcase, but I had no idea how it would be built. I just did a bunch of arm waving and said what I wanted and he was able to build it.
LOVE IT!
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There's not a lot of room back there, but we needed to create access...and this is a cool way to do it. We also put a second crawl space hatch in here. Because the existing house had a half underground basement, we have an extra deep crawl space...about 3'-6" from the bottom of the joists. We spent about $1000 extra and poured a slab down there...so it's a nice clean crawl, instead of a dirty, scary spider haven they typically are.