I think my first and proudest DIY was cutting several hundred pages out of a book from my father's library so I could fashion my own secret compartment to stash away a few lucky keepsakes, jr. high love letters, and whatever else I deemed important at the age of 12. I believe I got a bit of a whooping later when my dad realized I had altered his riveting copy of The New Isolationism: A Study in Politics and Foreign Policy Since 1950, but it was worth it. Secret hiding spots were and remain cool, like this fake stack of dishes that reveal a small storage section inside...

We agree with one of the comments mentioned; the design would be improved if the first plate ontop was fake (or "real"), so any suspicious snooper would lift to just find another plate instead of the compartment residing one plate in. But who would be suspicious of a stack of plates in the first place?