Bookcase doors

This may have already been posted, but anyway:
http://hiddenbookcasedoors.tumblr.com/

Inspiration for us all there I hope. I intend to have a bookcase door to my library once I get around to fitting it out properly. Real soon now, as they say...

Cool photos, thanks for posting. When you do your door, make sure light doesn't shine through the crack like in that first pic, if you want the room to be truly hidden.

Personally I'm more interested in the aspect of using doors as bookcases - running out of wall space :-)

A how-to link - http://www.instructables.com/id/The-Mysterious-Bookcase/
More photos would be a big help.

Os.

>3 Nicole_VanK: Likewise - reckon there's a good 10m or more of shelf space if you use both sides!

Yes, you would need some very sturdy hinges to support the lot though. But those should be available somewhere.

Quite so - I think in practice you'd need to have it on castors or some such. Mind you, the floor of my library isn't overly sturdy...

>3 Nicole_VanK:
I would think a fairly strong, well mounted door would support an over-the-top hanging set of shelves deep enough for paperbacks without doing much more than making sure the hinges are strong and installed with long screws well into solid wood. And if the shelf unit is narrow enough, the door would still open nearly all the way.

Something like this - http://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/EnlargeProduct.asp?SKU=13167435&ZMPHT=380/77... - but with shelf height more uniform for mass market PBs? Wire shelves would work (and be fairly light-weight) if you add something across the shelf to span the spaces between the wires.

Os.

Yes, but we were now thinking of having books both sides of the doors - making the door much deeper and heavier.

(One tip I can give: for heavy doors it's better to place two sets of hinges near the top. They have to carry the weight. The one near the floor is just for keeping things in line, and so is the one you'll usually find in the middle - but in fact, if your door is placed properly, that one is pretty much redundant).

By my calculations, 10+ metres of MMPBs might weigh up to 100kg - maybe you have more confidence in the strength of your building than I do, but mine was built in the days when horsehair was considered a sensible building material :-( So it'll be castors for me I think, the only problem then being that I don't think the floor is especially flat. And will probably get less so with that much weight swinging across it. (The ceiling if way off flat - I still haven't worked out how to deal with that problem wrt the floor to ceiling cases in the rest of the room.) It's problems like this that are generally inhibiting me getting around to starting the project...

Oh, my! What a great idea...

http://hiddenbookcasedoors.tumblr.com/post/20516868062/secret-door-closet-wardro...

And this, which I really, REALLY want...

http://hiddenbookcasedoors.tumblr.com/post/16109072630/secret-bookcase-door-conc...

>10 mart1n:: maybe you have more confidence in the strength of your building than I do

Yes, that's definitely another consideration. Just what are you attaching the door to? My building, crappy as it is in every other respect, is built in ludicrously robust concrete (I even had to borrow special equipment to drill holes, to hang a few pictures*).

ETA: * In those places where I couldn't fit bookcases anyway, obviously ;-)