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Beano Builds: Secret Den

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A house with hidden rooms can be extremely profitable if you live there. People may use their secret rooms to hide valuables or as a safe place from outsiders. Others use Dungeon Cinemas to showcase their creations. These are 22 of the most interesting and mind-blowing secret rooms, as revealed in their own right. Homes With Secret Rooms In the Autumn wild fungi like to grow in this clearing. The red Fly Agaric might look like they’re out of a children’s fairytale but they’re poisonous. In late Winter snowdrops take their place. Soon there will be a carpet of bluebells. At one point there were more than 200 Post Office engineering staff working throughout the tunnels. Our plan was to build a fun den in the woods using only natural material they’d scavenged from the ground. Little did we know that soon they’d have put together a working den branch by branch that my son would describe as ‘mind boggling’! Make a wooden frame for your single mattress. For the sides, use two lengths of 18mm planed whitewood timber measuring 168mm (W) x 1900mm (L), and for the foot, use one piece of timber measuring 168mm (W) x 970mm (L).

The wooden frame was screwed into the skirting board at the bottom and our marvellous ex-joiner friend, Richard, managed to secure it to the wall. This frame would support the plywood base you can see in the picture once it was butted up against the wall. We screwed the plywood into the frame from above. Ikea Nordli chests of drawers in white (2 x 80cm three drawer chest and 1 x 40cm three drawer chest) – We considered the cheaper Malm drawers but there isn’t a narrow three drawer chest in this range, only a two drawer chest. Thus, it is the 18mm plank that needs to be fixed to the wall using anchor bolts/heavy duty wall fixings. The anchor bolts/wall fixings you use depend on whether you have solid or hollow walls, so it’s best to ask them at Homebase or B&Q. Whichever they advise, you need to make sure they are the right length screws as they will need to go through the 18mm plank, then into the wall/plasterboard. Here are some plasterboard/hollow wall fixings http://www.screwfix.com/c/screws-nails-fixings/plasterboard-fixings/cat840020We used our daughter’s existing wooden bed frame for this project. If you don’t have a suitable bed frame, you can easily make a frame for the mattress (with or without slats) using 18mm (T) x 144mm (W) timber.

Since the last days of winter and the first days of spring, Luce and Theo have been spending hours in their den. Sometimes they call ittheir little fort. I think they have another name for it but they won’t reveal it to me!

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This image I took of my son building the den (above) is now in the permanent collection of the Young Victoria & Albert Museum in London in their Build it, Play Gallery. Smooth planed timber (T)18mm x (W)168mm x (L)1800/2400mm* for the mattress frame. As you will post likely be building the mattress frame yourselves, you will need enough timber for the 2 x 1900mm sides of the mattress frame and 1 x 970mm end panel. You may prefer a different width of timber e.g. 145mm, depending on the depth of your single mattress. The famous naturalist, researcher and author E. O. Wilson said that it is a “fundamental trait of human nature” for children to wanta hideaway. They are magical places where kids are not only inspired by nature but allow them to dream and make up their own worlds.

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