We found a secret room in our house, picture included

I stand corrected - she mentioned a hatch to get to it

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OP doesn't say that - she says it has a low wall you have to step over, which is probably just a strut. They didn't open it. It is just a nook in the corner.

It was completely concealed - it is open now because they opened it up after discovery

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The Dream Home by TM Logan!
I also read that book a few months ago, still had to Google to find the title though 🙈 hopefully doesn't turn out to be quite so sinister for OP though... 😬

As I thought

No, but as a teen I dreamt of having my own little space and decorating it. I'm sure parents would prefer that they find a hangout with minimal investment needed, but maybe - especially during the pandemic - that wasn't an option.

Anyway, teenager is just one of many innocent possibilities.

They should have made it into this cosy attic room

www.facebook.com/reel/1501535184288295

Children's camp?

You don’t have teens do you? @Oftenaddled

because the best teen hangouts at home involves the bare minimum of effort. So hauling down the ladder, and climbing up to a pokey hole to get up there…. Nah, can’t be arsed as well as not close to the kitchen.

best thing I ever did to tempt my teens to hang at home with friends was a have a large garden room built with super fast WiFi, a fridge, heating and sound proof!

Could just be old rolls of wallpaper - though actually if you search polka dot yellow wallpaper, there's still quite a market for it. Magazines sound very interesting in themselves!

Have you asked your new neighbours about it ? They probably know what it's for

'Back in the 2980s' :
has this thread become Back to the Future as well as The Shining😃

People didn't vlog in the days of that wallpaper and magazines!

Someone has definitely been restrained and kept in that chair for long periods. It has mad woman in the attic vibes, especially with that wallpaper. In fact, look up The Yellow Wallpaper, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.

Or it could just be a place for a world weary mum to sit, think, read and Google stuff, away from her baying family. I try this most days, but everyone follows me around the house instead. I move to an empty room, and suddenly it is full again.

That room has suddenly grown on me... even the wallpaper.

Sorry but am I right thta you have another entire space that you can't see?! How have you not torn this down? There could be another horror film scene there.

It looks like a sex chamber. The triangular aspect with legs open. I wouldn't sit on the chair if I were you!

Dunno.

I don't think you could use it for anything practical beyond hiding. I did think maybe it would be a grow, which might explain the lights. But no need for wallpaper and hauling water up there would be a pain.

I guess it is possible that it was actually done by two people. One built a room for storage (why you would want a storage room with such an inaccessible entrance who knows) and then another came along and decided to repurpose it as a some sort of extra room before discovering it was totally impractical and abandoned it half way through. There are often simple explanations for stuff that looks weird.

I guess we will never know. The boarded off bit on the other side is more strange to me though as it is hard to imagine any motivation for that. I would want to check in there just in case someone had done something really stupid like removed the W truss to make the space bigger and then not propped the roof up properly. I've seen that done before.

Burn the house down quick !

Right. Should we all be calling the police about our “weird” attics?

Is there an old piano behind the green door?

I think it was most likely occasional use for work / online meetings / vlogging and the wallpaper is to give a homely background. Or to cover a botch job with the plasterboards! Or someone had a hobby space up there and liked the wallpaper - it certainly warms up a dark space.

I think it's far less likely that someone would wallpaper a "secret" prison cell, punishment room, or porn studio with such distinctive wallpaper. And I wish I could understand why posters aren't calling the police about every nook and cranny in their attics that "could" once have been boarded. Do you need wallpaper, carpet and chairs to use a space for nefarious purposes?

It looks like a makeshift bedroom. I think maybe a growing family with kids who couldnt share bedrooms any more..So one of them has thought it would be fun to sleep in the loft, so mum and dad have rigged up a sort of bedroom. An agile teenager would think nothing of climbing up and down ladders or crawling into small gaps. If it's been entirely blocked off or hidden or boarded up then thats disturbing, but you seem to be saying it was just open at the end of the loft and not hidden at all ??? Is that right..

Loads of assumptions there - people are perfectly capable of cleaning up after builders. The only one that we have at reason to think applies is fire escape, and people do hang out in lofts regardless of fire exits. I agree that I would (now) look to mitigate fire risk in such a space, but whoever used the space may well have done so.