Hasta La Ideas

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For your average industrial designer, it’s not enough to know that furniture with built-in secret compartments exist: We want to know how these things are built. Sometimes there are simple construction tricks we can use, as with the first neat hidden compartment revealed in the video below:

The video above is by Popular Woodworking, who revealed how to make the spice drawers above in an article from last year. Other companies are hawking DVDs on how to construct hidden compartments in a variety of objects, as in this somewhat odd match-up between magician James Coats and contractor/designer Dan Hamann:

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