It was a sliding wooden door behind a woodworking shelf (the door blended perfectly with the handtool holder wall). The room was about 3m by 2m.
When we found it, it was empty and had hooks on the ceiling with two power outlets.
We didn't tell his parents and thought it was a "cool" after school hangout spot.
A few months later, we went back and a new shelf with weed plant cuttings was in the room. My buddy asked his dad and it turns out he had been growing a few weed plants hydroponically for the prior few years.
Someone I knew growing up really had a secret room in their house. Inside of a closet there was a wall that opened to a room that was really just the space between the walls of the room to access some ducting and the water heater. The secret door was definitely not obvious.
A friend of mine showed me a room he found under their house in a basement(which isn't common in South Africa) in the storeoom he found a bunch of unlicensed firearms. Think they belonged to his dad, but there were so full of dust even if the police had found them they might have thought they belonged to a previous owner.