The Secret Room

We've had many requests to put up a post about the secret room :-). A brief recap of the story of how we discovered it: We removed some of the ceiling tiles in the kitchen the month after we moved into the house, to see if the same 10 foot ceilings were in the kitchen that were in the rest of the house. While looking up, I noticed a window that I originally thought was Teddy's room. Then, I realized that the curtains were different! We went outside around the house, and verified that there was indeed a window on the west side of the house that we had never noticed. Our neighbor brought over his ladder and climbed up to look into the window (mainly to make sure there were no dead bodies, or anything creepy in there!), and verified that there was a full room in there! So, Jeff took the sawsall and cut into the wall in Teddy's closet. Sure enough, there was the "secret room" . Completely walled over, but still complete with trim, curtains on the windows, and even an old wooden bed frame!



There was also a fair amount of construction debris in there, including a door frame, and lots of other stuff. There was also a capped off radiator pipe in there as well- showing that heating used to run up into the room.

The back part of the room was seperated by a half wall, and in the corner there were hooks on the walls, and even some old windows.

The plan is now to take down the half wall, make a real entry into the room from the bedroom (instead of climbing through the hole Jeff cut in the closet!). Then, we will switch rooms with the boys and make that the master bedroom instead :-). While we have the ceiling torn out in the kitchen, we will have a plumber run plumbing up into the secret room, and it will become a master bath (something we had given up on having when we bought this house!). Instead now, we'll have a 10x10 bathroom (and hopefully even enough room for a whirlpool tub :-)!