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...
Faux-semblant Ceramic Secret Box
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?
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I heart secret compartments.
view K T G's profile
me too.. like the can of beans that unscrew at the bottom.. ingenious.
view animalhouze's profile
love love love!
i went to a spy shop in nyc and found myself most attracted to their crazy collection of secret-compartment objects.
i think this is a great (looking) idea!
view kdkaboom's profile
I barely have enough room for my actual plates. But this is just plain genius!
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Haha. I made myself a stash-book as well when I was around 15, but I made sure it would be one nobody would ever bother to actually pick up. It was a Book-of-the-Month copy that never got mailed back, and it was Howard Cosell's autobiography. This was in the mid-late seventies.
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I love this idea even more than the "secret book"! Awesome!
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if only I had any available cabinet space!
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