"Jim" wrote in message
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You need a vacation.

I need somthin'.

Do you remember the "apartment" in our house? The little living room has
half of a cathedral ceiling and then there was a big, flat wall that came
down from the peak of the roof to the ceiling level of the kitchen area. In
the attic, above the kitchen and behind that flat wall was a roughed in room
that was never finished. My project for the past month or two involved
insulating, sheetrocking, plastering and wiring that room and cutting out a
large, rectangular section of the flat wall, along with a doorway creating
an office "loft".

I built a custom "ladder" (as opposed to a staircase per building codes) up
to the loft. The main event was rigging a block and tackle tied into the
main header of the rectangular opening to hoist my 300 lb desk up into the
new office space. Took me two weeks to build up the courage to haul it up
there.

Anyway, the best part follows:

One end of the new office space has another doorway leading into the rest of
the attic area. I've built a hallway behind it and then a hobby workshop
off of it. I hoisted a couple of big, wooden bookcases into the office and
installed hidden casters under one of them. The top of the bookcase is
attached to the door frame opening with a heavy duty steel drawslide. This
bookcase hides the doorway, but with a gentle push, slides to the right,
revealing the "secret" passageway to the workshop area.

The grandkids freaked out when they saw it. In fact, so did Mrs.E.

Eisboch