AUDIO: SECRET DOORS AND ROOMS ARE BECOMING VERY POPULAR
Secret doors and passageways are more popular than ever with homeowners these days. A company called Creative Home Engineering in Gilbert, Arizona, specializes in secret doors that are used to hide secret rooms or closets in someone’s house. Owner Steve Humble makes doors look like a bookcase, or a dresser, or grandfather clock, or brick wall. Humble said that some of his clients want a secret door to hide a kids’ play area or movie room. Others want a place to hide a large safe or some guns. High-end clients want custom-built panic or safe rooms where they can hide in case of a home invasion. He says people will see a movie with a secret door and want one just like it. He says customers love their secret doors so much they often have trouble keeping it secret, showing it off to the neighborhood.
* Americans are so horrible with secrets. It’s a wonder half the country doesn’t know the nuclear launch codes.
* What you do is, you have a secret door, and then you have a decoy secret door you show your friends.
* Secret closets, play areas, movie rooms, but mostly bondage and discipline cells.
* When you meet with Steve Humble, you wait in his office, then he jumps out of the grandfather clock and scares the crap out of you.
* This is what happens to people who played a lot of “Clue” as a child.
* It would be cool to have a staircase that opened up and have Herman Munster walk out of it.
CLIP: An abbreviated Bookcase Scene from “Young Frankenstein”.
