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{{trope}}
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A subtrope of [[Bigger
Basically, it's when [[Bigger
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* When ''[[Shade the Changing Man]]'' moved into a crack in the pavement of Times Square, it was already [[Bigger
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* Arguably Death's Domain in ''[[Discworld]]''. The initial hallway is intimidating enough, but several of the rooms along it open up into cavernous chambers filled with books or hourglasses.
* ''{{color|blue| House}} [[House of Leaves|Of Leaves]]''. The {{color|blue|house}} on Ash Tree Lane is this, having doors that open from the normal part of the {{color|blue|house}} to a seemingly never-ending sequence of cold, colorless rooms, hallways, and stairs, just like a [[Clown Car Base]].
* The Room Of Requirement in ''[[Harry Potter (
* Lady Door's house in ''[[Neverwhere]]''. It's got a nearly-infinite number of rooms, scattered across all of space and time. There's no need for a physical connection between them, as her family has the ability to open portals by touching anything that opens and some things that normally don't.
* John De Chancie's ''Castle'' series features Castle Perilous, a castle containing portals to 144,000 different universes.
* Morwen's cottage in the ''[[Enchanted Forest Chronicles]]'' appears small on the inside, but has a door that leads to a different room every time it's opened.
* The Godmothers hut in Mercedes Lackey's ''[[The Fairy Godmother]]'' looks like a normal cottage in the woods even from the first few rooms. Then you realize that there really shouldn't be room for two stories, a big kitchen, a pantry, a library, and several other rooms. Then, later in the book, Godmother Elena reveals the true nature of the totally not just a house. It's simply magic.
* The titular ''[[
* [[Charles
* ''[[The Neverending Story (
== Live Action TV ==
* Though they rarely bother to show it anymore, the TARDIS from ''[[
** Has happened to a couple of houses in the new series, when aliens attached new rooms or floors to an existing building.
* This happens in the first episode of ''[[
* In [[The IT Crowd]] episode ''The Red Door,'' Jen suddenly becomes curious about the titular door in the corner of the office, which hasn't been shown on screen previously. At the end of the episode another, more terrifying door is briefly shown (and never mentioned again).
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== Video Games ==
* Peach's Castle in [[
* [[
* The player's house in ''[[Animal Crossing]]'', once you start adding on extensions.
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== Web Original ==
* [[
== Western Animation ==
* The Classic ''[[Scooby Doo]]'' thing where they are running from the bad guys, hiding in barrels or [[Scooby
* In ''[[Futurama]]'', Fry spends a whole episode living in Bender's 'apartment' - a room just big enough for two people to stand up in - before discovering a door in one wall which leads to the closet, actually a spacious apartment with several further rooms leading off it. The door wasn't even being hidden by clever use of camera angles or anything - it was a blank wall in all previous scenes.
* In ''[[King of the Hill]]'', the Hill family takes a vacation to Japan. In their tiny hotel room, they do all their cooking and sleeping in a space about half the size of their living room, as a parody of overcrowding in that country. However, at the end of the two-parter when Hank's brother comes to help them check out, it is revealed that that was just the sitting room; there was a sliding door leading to several other rooms, and even a fountain.
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== Real Life ==
* The [
* [http://www.unforgettable.dk/ 42.zip], while mentioned on the [[Bigger
* It's an old joke about housing in [[New York City]] that everyone is always secretly hoping they'll notice a door one day that they [[Failed a Spot Check|never saw before]], and it turns out that their apartment is [[Friends Rent Control|twice as big as they realized]].
* Many used book shops are like this, since they tend to be built into old houses. For example, one has a main room that many people never get beyond... despite the fact that beyond it, through a tiny opening, there are five more rooms of equal or greater size.
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