Stylish Secret Room

I'm loving this posh secret room. See more from this designer at desire to inspire.

A Secret Bar

The History Channel had a show on today about a cool bar in Milwaukee, the Safe House. Its a spy-themed bar/restaurant filled with secret passages and tricks. (Here's a good description.) If I'm ever back in Wisconsin, I'd love to check it out.

Photo of the secret entrance above from flickr.

Staircase/Library

Check out this cool staircase/library on Apartment Therapy.

Secret Library

Wow! A (mostly) secret library in a regular house! Okay, sure, the people who own it are probably fairly well-to-do since she wrote a series of books that were recently made into a movie, but still, its cool. It makes me feel like maybe someday I really will have my own secret library.

Thanks for the link, bookshelves of doom.

London's Secret Tunnels

Continuing on my interest in secret rooms and tunnels, comes word that the (no longer) secret WWII/Cold War tunnels under London are for sale (link via Archinect). See the BBC for a slide show. 

You'd  think secret tunnels would look a little more mysterious, you know? Maybe a pool (or snooker) table kills the mystique a bit.

Secret Rooms and Passages

WebUrbanist has a great story today about secret rooms and passages. Some of them are well-known, and most are kind of gory (like the secret murder room constructed by H. H. Holmes, which you can read all about in The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson). The coolest one, I think, is the secret bookcase door at the Mont Sainte-Odile convent library (see photo above). I definitely need one of these for my dream library!