'Secret Room' in Couple's House Accessible Only via Ladder Stuns Internet - Newsweek

Footage revealing a couple's "secret room" successful their home that tin beryllium accessed lone by a ladder has gone viral since it was shared connected societal media.

In a TikTok video, idiosyncratic thewynhome, from Austin, Texas, explained they had a "secret room" successful their house.

Stock representation of a house. The concealed country had a glorious presumption of the neighborhood. Getty

Real-estate marketplace institution Zillow said the mean 2022 location terms successful Austin is $625,705, a 5.5 percent summation connected 2021.

According to the security examination website The Zebra, the mean location terms successful the U.S. successful 2022 is $348,079. Hawaii is listed arsenic the astir costly authorities to bargain a location in, portion the astir affordable 1 is West Virginia.

The video starts disconnected showing a country supra a doorway adjacent the beforehand of the location that needed a ladder to get to.

Captions shared successful the video read: "Our location has this 'secret room' that we've been wanted to cheque out. So we bought a ladder astatine HD (Home Depot) connected Black Friday.

"I got implicit my anxiousness of going up a ladder and conscionable kept climbing. Finally, I'm up present with a small, cozy country with [a] beauteous view.

While the country was bare, determination was plentifulness of abstraction upstairs to make a unsocial country for guests.

The TikTok idiosyncratic admitted that she was somewhat hesitant to spell down the ladder, adding: "I was truthful terrified of the climbing down part."

Since being shared connected Sunday, November 27, the clip has been viewed much than 7 cardinal times and attracted immoderate 632,700 likes.

The overwhelming bulk of those who posted comments nether the video wrote that the abstraction could beryllium a large spot to store Christmas decorations oregon gifts, portion others believed it would beryllium a cosy country to stock with friends.

Sakura101113 wrote: "A bully spot to enactment a Christmas histrion and small Christmas display," portion Kari Gates added: "That's however you fell each the Christmas gifts earlier you wrapper them."

Audrey Lousy commented: "Make a cozy hideout for your friends to ticker Netflix and chill."

But TikTok idiosyncratic Ganjoo took contented with the country being billed arsenic a "secret" space and posted: "That concealed country isn't secret, it's virtually close determination for each to see."

Newsweek has contacted TikToker thewynhome for comment.

There person been different cases wherever homes person gone viral connected TikTok, owed to their unsocial vibes.

Alex Quandt, from Cleveland, spent $5,000 to alteration her location into thing consecutive retired of the '70s.

The location is mostly filled with antithetic shades of brown, orange, yellowish and green, arsenic good arsenic lukewarm tones and bold floral prints.

She antecedently told Newsweek: "I person ever felt connected to the 1970s usage of lukewarm tones and the information that decor from that epoch didn't instrumentality itself excessively seriously. It's cozy and layered and feels lived in."