Recommended locations to hide your wall safe

By Harvey Brodach

A wall safe is the best place to hide your valuables where burglars cannot find them. You have a right to protect items that have a financial or sentimental value, but it is not easy to do. The hardest part of installing a wall safe is choosing a location that is hard for a burglar to find. Gangster movies often show a safe hidden by a painting in the living room, so forget about that idea. Burglars have seen the movies also.

Most burglars look in your bedroom and your closets, so you need to avoid putting a safe there. Choose a location that is a work space, a child’s room or one that is hidden by your sofa. You can outsmart a burglar when you choose an unusual location for your wall safe.

Laundry room options

Your laundry room is a perfect place to hide a wall safe. A room that is usually untidy has several spots that do not draw attention. Look around your laundry for ordinary objects that can hide your safe:

• clothes hamper
• drying rack
• stack of clean clothes

Your child’s bedroom

Burglars usually focus on private spaces like your master bedroom. A child’s bedroom is probably a distance away from there, and it is not likely to draw a burglar’s attention. Objects that provide cover for a wall safe include these:

• A poster
• A chest of drawers
• Shelves full of toys or books

Your living room

A burglar probably has to walk through your living room to get to your bedroom, but you can safely hide a safe there. A sofa is the largest object in most living rooms, but it does not attract attention as a camouflage. Most burglars work alone and cannot move heavy furniture, making a spot behind a sofa an excellent choice. If you have to open the safe often, you may prefer to put your safe in another location.

In the garage

An electric panel has the appearance of an ordinary item in a garage. You can get one from your home improvement store and use it as a disguise to conceal a safe. It has the advantage of providing easy access that does not require you to move furniture or shelves.

Future plan

A safe in the floor is one of the most impossible locations for burglars to find. When you build a new home, arrange for the contractor to create a space in the slab that can hold a safe.

Try to avoid sharing your ideas for concealment with your friends at the bowling alley or the ball park. You never know who may overhear your confidential conversation. By keeping the location of your safe a secret, you can make it nearly impossible for a burglar to steal your valuable possessions.

About the author: Harvey Brodach is the owner of Global Safe Corporation for many years. We invite you to visit and learn about safe products at our website.

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