My secret room serves as vault, cheese cave, AND a good place to store the sex furniture when not in use.
Yeah! With a hook hanging down from the ceiling where you can hang a side of beef and practice your carving skills. You’ll want several layers of plastic drop-cloth, of course, and a few holes on the interior walls so cameras on the outside can record what occurs inside.
Oh! You’re in Atlanta, not Chicago.
Never mind…
Perhaps adding a drum kit, then? Or a Mark Erlewine Chiquita and a full Marshall stack – but don’t mess with the volume knob…
—G!
I can do amazing things with a blade.
I can even cook!
Thanks, all, for the suggestions. After reading them and thinking about the space, I realized that there are really very few reasons why anyone would want to spend time in a closed 6x8-foot space. So ideas like a wine tasting room, reading nook, and even sex room don’t make much sense, since there are plenty of other spaces in the house, and even in the basement, in which we could those things more conveniently and/or comfortably. And the basement already has plenty of storage space.
One interesting idea is Fiendish Astronaut’s link to the attic spaceship (nice user name/post connection). Since I like open-wheel racing, my take on it might be a racing gaming station or two that I could build up over time. Although that might appeal to the grandkids when they’re a little older, it would probably not be a big hit with my wife. And I don’t really know if I have the time, money, or interest to spend on it anyway.
The best idea so far seems to the the infrared sauna. I had not heard about them before. It could fit in the space, and it is something we could do on a regular basis, like a hot tub, that we couldn’t do elsewhere in the house. They seem to be reasonably priced, especially compared to hot tubs. It appears that most manufacturers promote them with dubious health claims about purging toxins and that kind of rubbish. But if using them is a pleasant and relaxing experience, similar to being in a hot tub, the woo nonsense doesn’t really matter.
Has anyone here used one? I’m wondering about how comfortable they are to sit in for 20-30 minutes, and what the experience is like, compared to being in a hot tub. My wife particularly likes the massage-like experience of a hot tub, which the sauna obviously can’t provide. Any thoughts?
It’s very much personal opinion. I can’t stand being hot, I can’t understand why anyone would do it on purpose (well, I do, when they are in Sweden and it’s all cold and snowy, but not here, we’ve got enough stinking hot, and it’s all for free).
Find a gym where they have one and test it out to form your own opinions. It’d be an expensive white elephant if it’s something you don’t like.
And your enemies can scream all they can but not be heard.
Hotbox.
I don’t like being hot and sweaty either, but if it were relaxing, the way a hot tub is, it might be pleasant. Of course, there isn’t the massage aspect of the water jets in a tub.
Your idea of checking out an IR sauna at a gym is good. I’ll have to see if I can find one.
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You sweat. Rivers of sweat. Then you jump under a shower to cool off. I don’t see the point of it. (As I say, I hate the heat, I could never find being cooked in an oven “relaxing”). Hot tubs are different, they are like a bath. The water supports you so you feel all light and if you have a sore bit and those “attack bubbles”, they can help loosen up your muscles. I don’t find sitting on a bench dripping sweat to be remotely relaxing, but as I said, it’s a personal thing. I’d rather a freezer that I could go and sit in when it’s hot. 
Well, a sauna wouldn’t pose much of a moisture problem, since saunas are dry heat (though I gather sometimes people splash a bit of water onto the heat source).
Personally: make sure the entrance is at least somewhat hidden, and it can only be opened by pulling on a candlestick or the like :D.
It’d be a great place for whatever collectibles you might have (as others have suggested).
But the most basic usage would be to just put some shelves and use it for storage. Could be your “society has fallen” food store, off-season clothing, or whatever… but the hidden entrance is a must :D.
No?
What have you as far as a total defense system for whatever physical threats happens to come your way?? :dubious::dubious:
Using the space as any kind of sauna is going to result in it stinking unless you leave it open to allow it to dry and air out. That defeats the whole secret room idea. If you say you don’t need a safe room, that is good enough for me. You don’t. You also say you don’t need any extra storage. Okay, you don’t. Really, at this point I don’t know what kind of cool use a space so small could be put to. Maybe install shelves and use it as a pantry for canned and dried foods.
Isn’t it obvious? A fort.
Many people do enjoy the sensation of being baked for a bit. As far as purging toxins etc., well, woooooooo, but the overall sensation of heat might be pleasant.
It’s not remotely the same feeling as a hot tub though. Not by a looooong shot.
Have you ever been in a place that was too well air conditioned, then jumped into a hot car that’s been sitting in the sun? If so, think of whether you enjoyed that sensation (I have been known to, but only for a couple minutes at a time).
I’ve tried saunas a handful of times, and didn’t love it enough to want to do it habitually. Before you invest in something like that see if you can visit a health club that has one, and try it out.
To clarify: a sauna is NOT the same as a steam room. A sauna is dry heat. Qhile I can imagine that the sweating you’ll do in a dry sauna might lead to some smell - and in some saunas, people splash a bit of water over the hot rocks emitting the heat, it’s not anything like you’d have with an actual steam room. And you’ve already got one of those: just step outside any day for about 8 months of the year :D.
I know the difference between a sauna and a steam room, thank you. Any such small area in which people are sweating will stink if not aired out and dried.
That’s what I’ve nicknamed my kitchen. Because of the stove & oven, not because I’m usually stoned when I’m in there. Got nothing to do with that.
Well its my understanding that one could always use such a place to grow certain recreational herbs whose existence one might prefer not to be general knowledge. Of course I wouldn’t know anything about that.
Recreational herbs? Play thyme?
That sounds like a good size for a sauna.
Sex dungeon anyone?