Backyard bunkers you won't believe are real Gallery View. Expand View. Unbelievable home shelters hidden underground Survival Realty. With a global pandemic still hitting the headlines, an underground bunker suddenly seems like a smart idea. While there are plenty of options out for there for the perfect post-apocalyptic hideout, where better to have one than your own backyard? From subterranean shelters you can install at home to unbelievable hideaways real people have built on their properties, these are the perfect places to hunker down and wait out the worst.
The master bedroom is hidden behind a hand-carved screen. Decorated with an ocean-front mural to keep any long-term residents relaxed, it also boasts a fan with a charcoal filter to get rid of any contaminants in the air. Alabama bunker home Century Overlooking the tranquil creek, the cabin-style home also has a large indoor-outdoor pavilion with a firepit that would make the ideal workshop space for a thrifty prepper.
But that isn't all Modular fallout shelter Atlas Survival Shelters. The perfect fit for a large back garden, the modular square shelter is designed as an emergency home away from home. It features an L-shaped entrance with gas-tight interior doors to help stop gamma radiation in its tracks, plus a quarter-inch thick steel exterior.
This well-appointed bunker comes decked out with a stunning fitted kitchen and dining area, a stylish living zone, an LED TV and DVD player, wine racks, throws, cushions and an array of other creature comforts.
A number of potentially life-saving options can be snapped up too for an additional charge. These include camera surveillance, short-wave radios, solar panels and last but not least, multiple radiation detectors. Corrugated pipe bunker Atlas Survival Shelters.
For something that you can build yourself, the Round Culvert bunker from Atlas Survival Shelters ticks all the boxes with sections of the corrugated shelter bolted together, making it ideal for DIY aficionados. The corrugated metal walls ensure the interior of the bunker is silent, eliminating any echoes that might come with smooth-walled shelters.
And if you're worried about fitting in all of your supplies, the backyard bunker has extra storage under the floors and beds. Luxury backyard bunker Rising S Bunkers. Packed with state-of-the-art amenities, the luxury bunker offers all the creature comforts you'd expect and then some, from the multi-vehicle garage to the greenhouse, gym and huge storage room.
The plush units are equipped with full plumbing and septic systems, plus they're wired for dual power so they can run on or off the grid. They also have NBC air filtration systems, hot water heaters and infrared security systems to keep you and your family safe. Miniature garden bunker Rising S Bunkers. If you're searching for an emergency retreat to fit a smaller area, the Mini Bunker is a more compact and affordable option.
Designed to protect its occupants from bomb blasts and nuclear fallout, the solid steel structure can be lifted into place to provide an instant garden shelter. Measuring just eight feet by 12 feet, the snug bunker offers a basic survival space that can be decorated with homely touches for a more welcoming feel.
The dinky living area has an air filtration system, a bunk bed and an alcohol-burning stove to keep its residents toasty and warm in the colder months. The bunkers are made to order, so buyers can select their ideal floor plan and amenities. For those wanting a middle of the range fortress, Rising S Bunkers also provides a selection of more spacious backyard bunkers. Customisable steel bunker Ultimate Bunker.
The company work alongside contractors, designers, architects and advisers to create a bunker floor plan that's designed around their client's individual needs, whether you're after a snug survival space or a sprawling layout to accommodate the whole family.
Ultimate Bunker uses sturdy Fort Knox vault doors to secure their safe rooms, which feature a reinforced fire door and strategically placed locking bolts. If disaster strikes, you'll have a super-secure space to retreat to. Each shelter comes with five-star amenities and a bespoke layout that can include a stylish kitchen and living areas, plus storage and workspaces.
We have 15 hidden cameras around the property for surveillance, and have rehearsed an escape plan to the bunker that will take 25 minutes to be locked in. Decorating is a completely different problem with the solid walls, and he uses a lot of magnets to hang the decor.
The space fits 50 people, and comes with game rooms, a sauna, gym, media room, bowling alley, gun range, and a swimming pool. In addition to those features, the massive bunker also has custom flooring and carpet, a custom kitchen, multi-vehicle garage with motor-cave, greenhouse for sustainable food sources, and large storage rooms. The bunker also comes with an above-ground safe house near the entrance. And behind the standard shop door there is a heavy blast door. Once you are inside the safe house, it offers one more layer of protection for the bunker entrance.
This wall will open to the bunker entrance once you release the hidden locking mechanism. This is a BETA experience. You may opt-out by clicking here. Edit Story. Searching the world for the most amazing People, Places and Things. Follow me on Twitter or LinkedIn. This was precisely the model Hall was operating on — though rather than two weeks, Hall was planning for up to five years in lockdown. Over 60 metres ft below the surface of the Earth, we looked over racks filled with year shelf-life food stored on the grocery store level — a convincing replica of a supermarket, complete with shopping baskets, an espresso machine behind the counter and a middle-class American aesthetic.
Hall said they needed low black ceilings, beige walls, a tile floor and nicely presented cases because if people were locked in this building and they had to come down here to rifle through cardboard boxes to get their food, they would soon get depressed. It was also necessary to implement a rule that no one could take more than three days' worth of groceries because shopping is "a social event".
Hall said that "since everything in here is already paid for, you need to encourage people to come down here to smell bread and make a coffee and to chat or barter supplies and services". We visited one of the completed 1,sq ft condos, which felt like a clean, predictable hotel room. I looked out of one of the windows and was shocked to see that it was night outside. I guessed we must have been underground for more than a few hours at this point. I had completely forgotten we were underground.
Hall picked up a remote control and flicked on a video feed being piped into the "window" — an LED screen — much like you might see in a futuristic film. Oak leaves suddenly shuddered in the foreground just in front of our cars, parked outside the blast door.
In the distance, the camouflaged sentry posted at the chain link fence was standing in the same place as when we arrived. These empty bunkers on the Great Plains have become the largest "prepper" community on the planet Credit: Bradley Garrett. The screens can be loaded up with material or have a live feed piped in, but most people prefer to know what time of day it is than to see a beach in San Francisco or whatever," Hall explained.
But all this preparation is for life during lockdown. Is there any prepping going on for life after the blast doors re-open? I imagine spending time in there with my family, safe and secure, becoming my best version of myself. When you get rid of all the distractions and crap around us keeping us from doing these things, who knows what you can accomplish?
The bunker is imagined by some as a chrysalis for transformation into a "model self", where preparations lead to a perfectly routine existence after which time a person can emerge as a superior version of themselves. Many of us experienced this playing out during the early weeks of the Covid pandemic, which for some brought relief from unwanted travel obligations and for others provided a productive period of isolation and privacy.
A utopia for some was a disaster for others, who were without the resources to hunker down and were left jobless, sick, and dead. So in this sense, the rational, orderly, planned space of the bunker is the antithesis of what some see as the pointless acceleration and accumulation of modern life.
These narratives contrast the media's representation of prepping and bunker building as a gloomy, dystopian practice. My research found that prepping is ultimately hopeful, if a little selfish. Selfish because the preppers are looking out for themselves, given that they don't trust the government to do so. However, as many of them have made clear to me during the current pandemic, the fact that they are self-sufficient has alleviated pressure on critical resources and health-care facilities, putting an altruistic spin on what looks to be a self-centred endeavour.
Unlike survivalists, the goal of the prepper is not to exit society, but to help prop it up through personal preparedness. This cross section shows the full scale of the bunker, built in an old missile silo Credit: SurvivalCondo. One bunker builder in California explained to me that that "no one wants to go into the bunker as much as they want to come out of the bunker".
As such, the bunker is a form of transportation, but one that instead of transporting bodies and material through space, it transports them through time. To preppers, the bunker is both a controlled laboratory in which to build better selves, a place to reassert lost agency and a chrysalis from which to be reborn after a necessary "reset" of a messy, complicated and fragile world.
In the light of the Covid pandemic it has become clear that the preppers are not social anomalies, but gatekeepers to understanding the contemporary human condition — just as survivalists of the past were a reflection of Cold War anxieties. As Hall suggested at the end of our tour:. The defensive capability of this structure only existed to the extent needed to protect a weapon, a missile — this bunker was a weapon system. So, we converted a weapon of mass destruction into the complete opposite.
But what the preppers are building is less important than our need to understand that prepping refracts underlying anxieties created by inequality, austerity, shrinking trust in government, despondency about globalisation and the speed of technological and social change. So it may well be that the future of humanity is not in the stars after all — but deep under the surface of the Earth.
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If you liked this story, sign up for the weekly bbc. The bunker builders preparing for doomsday. Share using Email. By Bradley Garrett 14th May From The Conversation. For some, the current crisis is a dummy run for long-term lockdown.
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