A questioner said:
Suspicious security door in wealthy home, with interesting openings. Right next to the living room and kitchen, not subtle at all. What is the usual purpose of all this?
Some of the answers were:
- Dude this forreal looks like a solitary confinement cell door
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Mirror glass on the outside says panic or high security room to me. If you were locking someone up you’d want your one way mirror the other way around. Maybe the door was bought second hand from some sort of institution helps explain why its beat up in a new house and also the redundant features.
- If the owner let you in that house with a full chance of you guys seeing that I’m guessing it’s not creepy serial killer victim storage. Also if you do have access to the house cant you ask the owner what it is?
- It could be an access door to a safe room that has not been covered over and finished yet.Safe rooms are becoming prevalent features in new build homes for wealthy owners.
- House was still being built, or maybe being remodeled. Door could not be opened. Google search on the brand “Armstrong Seguridad” (Security) advertises the door and a few accesories, but not these specifically.Is this like a panic room? And even if it is, what kind of situation would require the passing of medium and small-sized objects within your own home?
Could it hold something of great value inside, and the opening gives the option to surrender it to any aggresors without exposing themselves? I might be over-thinking this.
Given it’s a family home, what would be the common use for these functions on the door?
- My thought is that it’s literally a solitary confinement door, installed by someone who collects things related to killers or other serious crime (either aesthetic-wise or items literally associated with specific psychos). It’s supposedly illegal to sell things related to serial killers, but there’s apparently quite the black market. This could have been purchased from a closed prison.
- We have those doors in banks too.We hand over bags of cash through the rotating drum to the armed guards.
I’m sitting at work looking at a very similar door as I type this.
- Looks like a very self contained room leaving just limited access for passing items between doors and I suspect the top is a one way mirror which might have a cover over it on the other side.Edit: it appears to be a small keyhole to the right side, maybe look for a key or a lock Smith? Maybe they can quickly identify what sort of doors matches to those sort of locks.
- Rehab room? Maybe a family member with a drink/drug problem. Lock them in to go cold turkey?
- Wealthy home? The chipping, stained paint doesn’t reflect that.
- Wealthy home? This might be a stretch but what if this person kidnapped people and kept sex slaves to sell for trafficking? There is big money in that. It’s creepy as hell.
