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I built a craft room for the wife in the basement. When I was framing the walls up and checking levels the basement walls gave me a headache. The house was built in '67. I don't know how they done things then, but these basement walls are not level. They lean outward by about 5-10 degrees. I wound up keeping the frame against the floor wall but the top of my wall was a few inches out from the basement wall so I could build level walls. When doing this I got the idea to pull one of the walls out by a whole framing segment. This created an approximately 2 foot gap between the basement wall and the room wall. At the time I was worried about door to door forced vaccinations. So this allowed me to build a secret room where we could hide. I blended the door in by using trim to decorate the wall. I also created a method for locking it, and I sound proofed it as best as I could. Thoughts? I can post pics of the whole wall, but most of the trim is blocked by bookshelves and such.

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I built a craft room for the wife in the basement. When I was framing the walls up and checking levels the basement walls gave me a headache. The house was built in '67. I don't know how they done things then, but these basement walls are not level. They lean outward by about 5-10 degrees. I wound up keeping the frame against the floor wall but the top of my wall was a few inches out from the basement wall so I could build level walls. When doing this I got the idea to pull one of the walls out by a whole framing segment. This created an approximately 2 foot gap between the basement wall and the room wall. At the time I was worried about door to door forced vaccinations. So this allowed me to build a secret room where we could hide. I blended the door in by using trim to decorate the wall. I also created a method for locking it, and I sound proofed it as best as I could. Thoughts? I can post pics of the whole wall, but most of the trim is blocked by bookshelves and such. https://pic8.co/sh/nwdhPc.jpg https://pic8.co/sh/ka20ee.jpg https://pic8.co/sh/MGp5Cr.jpg

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You don't sound like a jerk at all. I don't mind the critique. I've got some other ideas for hidden rooms and compartments that I'll be working on in the future. Some of them will be beefed up much more than this. In fairness though, this was just kind of thrown together with little planning. However it did give me a lot of new ideas in how to go about building these as well as other ideas in how to hide the entrance.