Looking for ideas...hidden room

[Zakk]

Where the heck is that?  In NS you can camp out on an tiny island for a two weeks and not see another person.  There was a lake where I grew up that if you were on it, and saw another person, you'd be thinking"who the hell is THAT guy" for days.

I'm talking outside of the "within 100 miles of the US border" part of Canada.

Muskokas.  Actually almost anywhere in Ontario.

If you go farther north you get eaten.  Everyone knows that.  That's why nobody is there.  Eaten. 

[lilshawn]

Too bad I never got into more trouble than poaching lobsters, I suppose.

You can get away with anything until you start bragging about it.  As soon as someone else knows, everyone else knows.

 

[pbj]

RIP

[ChadTower]

Oh man, if there's one thing you DO NOT want to get caught doing in NS, it's poaching lobsters... you'll end up chained to a dock post at low tide.

[Deadpool]

Okay so I'm making this here hidden room thing, it's actually a 'gun vault' (a requisite for easy storage of firearms in Canada).   Anyway, I've got it tucked away, and thinking of hiding the entrance behind a bookcase (basic ply construction, 5 shelves, on a hinge in front of the door opening, likely a caster on the bottom for weight).  Any tips on a) construction of the swinging bookcase, and b) cool add-ons in the gun room?

Room will feature LED lighting (backlit on the most interesting guns), a motion sensing camera, a control panel (for lights), in-wall first aid kit (you never know what can happen).  But it's small (6'x7') so it's not like I can get a TV in there

Any ideas for cool 'wow' items I can install?  Walls are either concrete or a mix of wood, rebar, binder twine and concrete board.  The actual door is a steel exterior door (with reinforced steel around the deadbolts). 

Ok so here it goes.  I would enclose the guns in some character.  What I mean by that is, instead of just having a gun on a wall, perhaps add some color to it, a rich maroon or dark forest green, to give it that estate look.   In terms of doors, here is a great article on how to build a bookcase door.

http://prepforshtf.com/build-secret-bookcase-door/#.VIH_MHu3ExJ
Dont worry about putting a chair in there, unless you want to make the room bigger and make it a man cave, in that case add some scotch and a cigar humidor for some more character building, just make sure to have a proper ventilation system..lol

This is where I'm at in designing.  So far the room is built and the birch plywood is up (not stained).  Not sure what the back wall is going to be made of, I'm not sold on the brick, might be too dungeon-y.  Apologies to those that are anti-gun