Surely you would like to keep important documents, money, expensive jewelry and accessories away from prying eyes! For example, a safe requires a lot of extra space. In general, safes are usually installed inside the wall and covered, for example, with a picture or a mirror. Not everyone has the opportunity to organize such storage. That's why today we decided to show you some examples of furniture with secret drawers! Store your valuables in safe places, protect yourself from prying eyes. As examples, look at our selection -!
Excellent coffee table with mirror surface
We must remember that we are talking about secret compartments! Therefore, you should not neglect optical illusions! After all, these are the most reliable comrades in this matter! The Italian company Loto knows exactly how important it is to keep secrets! Just look at this one coffee table! The shiny black glass plates combined with the white bottom will fool everyone!
Functional Tula furniture with chic design
This round coffee table also doubles as a great hiding place! It is difficult to imagine that these tiles can be safely moved.
Coffee table with wooden top
You thought this one was cute small table has only one compartment? The legs of this table have extra seats for storage! Feel free to hide your most valuable documents in them! It is unlikely that anyone will be able to guess the existence of these caches.
Storing items in built-in secret compartments
Look at this beautiful white coffee table with leather trim. At first glance, it seems that a wooden tabletop is just a decorative element that fits perfectly into general style table Surely you didn’t even pay attention to her. The table is like a table... But no! It is under this wooden table top and there's a hiding place! Cool piece of furniture, isn't it? 🙂
Storing things in unusual places
Decorating this attractive ottoman with colors can do you a huge favor! Firstly, the ottoman serves as a nice coffee table! And, secondly, under soft upholstery there's a hiding place! Agree that you don’t pay attention to such little things at all! But it works to our advantage! 😉
Furniture with secret compartments
Under such a massive tabletop you can easily hide many valuable things! This piece of furniture provides practical use of space and functionality! For a more reliable averting eyes, place a vase or tea set on the table!
Wooden table with drawer and lockable shelves
This durable and functional wooden table has a deep and spacious compartment that can only be seen when the top is slightly open. You can safely store alcoholic beverages in one of the drawers, and more valuable items in the other. You can be sure that if your guests discover the secret door from the bar, they will not even think that there is another secret drawer in this table.
Convenient design and secure secret drawer
You don't have a comfortable workspace or your coffee table is so low that you constantly have to bend over? Then you will like this table model! After all, this coffee table can turn into an excellent laptop table with one simple movement! On the other hand, you can always leave valuable things in this shelf that no one will ever find! After all, it’s elementary, we are all accustomed to the fact that all the drawers simply slide out. We have long been unaccustomed to the fact that the shelf can be lifted up. 🙂
AND urn table with matte finish and secret drawer
If you need a comfortable coffee table with simple design, perhaps these two clean-lined options are for you! Enlarged edges provide a stable position when moving the tabletop to the side. The compartment is perfect for storing a notebook or valuable accessories.
Extraordinary storage space
Who would have guessed that a window sill could provide excellent storage! Converting a window sill into a box will provide you with safe storage of valuables!
Chest of drawers
This chest of drawers in the living room makes it look like it has a single shelf that is behind the door. It is difficult to imagine that the top tabletop can be moved back.
Furniture with secret compartments
A small table for storing small items. Perfect for the living room! Stop losing the remote control and other little things! 🙂
Chair with secret drawer
How do you like this idea? Bright colors and the massive appearance attract attention and dispel thoughts that there may be a hiding place in this chair! Take a look around, maybe you should refurbish your old chair?
Original design and hiding place
This chair has an interesting and unusual pattern and has a hidden drawer! Unusual design and the combination of contrasting colors distracts us from looking at finer details.
Picture with a hidden compartment for jewelry
In the first photo you see a mirror with a narrow vertical drawer, in which you can safely store jewelry! And the right photo shows a painting with a secret compartment, again, for decoration! It’s unlikely that anyone will be able to guess that there is a hiding place in the picture! 🙂
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Today we will tell you what secrets the most ordinary furniture at first glance can keep.
Some pieces of furniture seem to have come straight out of a science fiction or spy movie. In fact, they are not at all what they seem. This cannot be said to be a modern invention: furniture with additional secret functions has been made since ancient times. Inside the extant antique furniture very often various hiding places and secret boxes are discovered. Tables, dressing tables, chests of drawers and cabinets created by ancient masters usually had a dual purpose: they were not only used, but also money, documents and jewelry were safely hidden in them from prying eyes and intruders, which was vital in those turbulent times.
In France in the 18th century they even began to produce new look furniture - secretaries. The name itself suggests that these interior items were intended to keep the owner’s secrets. As a rule, these were miniature bureaus with many visible and hidden shelves and drawers and a folding tabletop used as a desk.
The boxes were often equipped with secret locks and secret locking mechanisms. Among antique dealers and collectors of antiques, there are many legends about untold riches accidentally discovered after pressing some inconspicuous stud inside an antique secretary. Or how an antique secretary, having changed many owners, fell into the hands of an experienced specialist who was able to figure out the location of the hiding place, searched for a long time for a way to open it, and, of course, eventually found it secret drawer, full of ancient treasures.
But even today, the romance of secrets and mysteries has not gone away: people still like to create unexpected and original places to store valuables. For a number of reasons, this is easiest to do in furniture and other interior items. Some caches cannot be created without help good master-furniture maker, in some cases furniture is already sold with secret niches for storage, but there are also ways to reliably hide something inside ordinary furniture itself.
Hiding places in ordinary furniture
The simplest example: if you need to securely hide an envelope or flat package, simply tape it to the bottom drawer from the bottom side. Even if someone goes through all the drawers of your desk, in most cases he will hardly think to look under them. For greater confidence, use the lowest drawer so that inspecting its bottom is also physically inconvenient.
The same principle applies to hiding places under the seats of chairs, but in our opinion, this is less reliable: chairs are often lifted to be rearranged, and they can also accidentally fall. The probability of quickly discovering such a cache is very high, so this one is better original way storage to be used for something not very valuable.
It is quite common to store valuables in a piano. By its design this musical instrument has a lot inside free space, which can be perfectly used to place anything: from household supplies to important documents. Of course, provided that there is no professional musician living in your family who will not allow you to treat the instrument so frivolously.
Hiding places are often installed under furniture - in the empty space between the legs, which is closed decorative facade. Someone builds a convenient drawer there. Or you can simply find a flat box of suitable size, put valuables in it and put it away under the closet. You can also make the simplest double bottom inside a drawer yourself.
Ready-made furniture with hidden niches
Naturally, not all ready-made furniture can be used to store valuables: most often it is simply intended for the convenient placement of ordinary household items. For example, in an ottoman in the hallway it is very convenient to neatly lay out shoes, and in ottomans or banquettes in the bedroom or living room - those things that are often used in these rooms.
The same applies to storage under the bed: you won’t get a full-fledged hiding place from this place, but you can put away unnecessary ones in at the moment items are very convenient.
Among finished furniture designed for secret storage of valuables, special shelves and tabletops should be noted. According to them appearance it is impossible to guess that there is a hiding place inside.
Wall mirrors and paintings of a special design can also become an excellent hiding place, which is almost impossible to detect. Real safes are sometimes disguised as paintings.
Another way to create a hiding place at home is to purchase a secret drawer or safe disguised as an outlet.
Do-it-yourself or custom-made caches
It is very popular to place caches made from books on bookshelves. This does not require any special skills or expensive materials: the main thing is to choose the spines of the books in such a way that they look harmonious among the other publications on the shelf and do not attract attention to themselves.
You can try creating your own simple secret storage spaces inside or under countertops.
More complex projects Made to order from a good craftsman. This applies to secret drawers or special secret niches for storing various furniture inside.
Each of us has things in our home that need to be hidden from prying eyes and hands. And these could be not only thieves or intelligence officers, but your own children. Therefore, in this article I would like to tell you how to hide things dear to your heart from the attacks of persons to whom they do not belong.
Upholstered furniture
So, simply an unlimited flight of fantasies represents upholstered furniture . Agree, it’s quite easy to arrange a hiding place in the hollow part of the back of a sofa or chair. Carefully cut, remove the filling if necessary, put in everything you need, and sew it up. Just make sure that the tone of the threads matches and the seam is as invisible as possible. If you decide to use a mattress, do not place bulky items there. Otherwise, the mother-in-law, who has come to visit for a short time, while resting at night, may suspect something is wrong. She's not the princess and the pea!
If what you are hiding small sizes and not very heavy, then this can be fastened to the bottom of a bed, sofa or chair: remove the fabric, remove everything that is necessary, and fasten the fabric again as it was before.
Hollow furniture legs and stands
A classic example of a cache is hollow furniture legs and stands. To do this, a small hole is drilled inside required diameter, which only the owner knows about. Of course, you can’t hide much in such a hole, but you can still hide a certain amount of valuables. But be careful not to make the holes too large or in all four legs of the stool. Otherwise, your wife’s friend of a substantial build will be very surprised when she comes in for tea, under which at the most unexpected moment a chair will break and her great-grandmother’s diamonds will appear from it. Don't forget to cover the hiding place, for example by gluing a piece of felt or installing a plastic plug.
Hides in boxes
Let's remember detective stories, where the heroes often use a hiding place according to the principle: In the drawers of the table, it is not difficult to equip it. Take the same material, the same size as the actual bottom, and secure it with Velcro or plastic-framed magnetic strips, available at dry goods stores. Ready. You can only hide flat objects there (documents, photographs, a small amount of money). Be sure to record what you are hiding inside. So that nothing attracts attention with unnecessary noise or knocking.
You can also install it in boxes false posterior wall. It’s no secret that in drawers that don’t extend all the way, there are still ten centimeters in the back that can be useful in our difficult task. Again, the wall should not differ in any way in shape, size and color from the real one, but located a little further. Again, be sure to carefully secure whatever you are hiding.
Between the tabletop and drawers there is also empty space. The cache must be organized so that it does not interfere in any way retractable structures. You can build a small drawer inside the table, and make the tabletop, for example, liftable.
Hides in closets
Before hiding something, you must decide whether you need access to it constantly or whether you can easily do without it for at least six months. And if you come to the understanding that you can’t admire your gold bars so often, then I suggest you hide them under the furniture, without making any hiding places at all. For example, did you assemble a bookcase before placing it on permanent place, place your precious metals in the hollow space between the floor and the bottom (base). And then load your closet with literature to the fullest extent. Thus, even if the thieves guess (which is unlikely) where the treasure is hidden, they will have to take out all the books to get to it. If you can’t live a day without touching your grandmother’s antique necklace, make the furniture base removable. Actually there is big advantage the point is to assemble the furniture yourself, since when assembling in sections of shelves, for example, you can make hollow spaces and hide, hide, hide….. However, getting to what is hidden will, of course, be a bit difficult.
IN closet In general, with certain skill and technical equipment, you can hide a person. Just don’t forget about him so that it doesn’t turn out like the unfortunate lover in the joke. Use the double system back wall, for this it is necessary to deepen the concrete structures, to which the cabinet will be adjacent. A safe can be placed in the same recess.
false ceiling in the closet is also a good solution to the problem. Cut a piece out of wood that exactly matches the size of its internal perimeter. Inside the cabinet, nail the slats on three sides to create a U-shaped frame. It will hold the outer parts of the friction latches around the perimeter that hold false ceiling on the spot. This is necessary so that the secret compartment can be opened without using a special protruding handle. To open the secret compartment, you need to push up the loose side of the ceiling. Then the other side will be released from the friction latches and go down. Such latches do not withstand heavy weight. Therefore, a false ceiling cannot be used as a shelf for storing things. Make one or more shelves above it where you will put things that need to be hidden. Remember, lighting is strictly forbidden in cabinets where something is hidden!
A good idea for a hiding place is to make it inside the wall and close the seams of the secret door hanging shelves or a rack. A removable section of shelving will cover the edges of the door, which hinges in the usual way.
This article is devoted to the topic of how to make a cache in home furniture.
The times of widespread furniture with secret compartments are a thing of the past - they are now being successfully replaced by home and bank safes.
It is best to hide photographs and documents in a box with a double bottom. If the gap between the bottoms is minimal, the cache is almost impossible to detect.
The second bottom is inserted from behind into the grooves in the walls of the box. Grooves for the main and second bottoms are selected in the side and front walls of the box at a distance of 1.5-2.5 mm from each other. In the rear wall, only the upper groove is selected. In the assembled box, the second bottom is installed in all grooves, and the real one can be pulled out and pushed in. 
If the back wall is assembled from two parts and a round cutout is made at their junction, then you can pull out the false bottom.
To avoid having to clean the box, you can use the back wall of two parts, securing the lower one to the real bottom and thereby forming a kind of tray. If you go even further, you can make four walls along the contour of this tray, installing them on all sides, and get a mini-box.
It is not difficult to create secret compartments in a classic chest of drawers. Unused space is left behind the front parts, between the side walls and drawers, and between the drawers themselves. In these places, narrow wooden boxes are simply built in. You can only find them if you pull out the drawers. You can secure the box in any way you like - with magnets, dowels, slats, on a shelf or with pins.
However, secret compartments formed by a double bottom, additional partitions, as well as hidden drawers a seasoned eye will discover it sooner or later. For this case, there are designs “ increased secrecy" These are, for example, cavities in the walls of boxes. In our case, in the edge of the back wall of the drawer, covered with the bottom (it is fixed with a screw), two cavities with dimensions of 6x150x40 mm were selected. Finding such a hiding place is very difficult.
DESKS
Flat drawers behind the edge of the tabletop above the paper compartment are widespread.
Besides, ideal place To install a false back wall, there are paper compartments, letter shelves and cabinets with doors. Access to the cache is either from the front through a removable part of the rear panel, or through a removable panel at the rear of one of the vertical partitions. The panels can be installed with hinges or magnetic latches. Simply press the panel and it will jump to the side. For a hinged door, one latch is enough, for a hinged panel - two with stop strips. 
a small groove for the fingers is selected. The panel is inserted into the upper groove 8 mm deep and fixed in the lower groove 3 mm deep.
HOLLOW LEGS AND STANDS
This is another classic example of a hiding place. The volume, however, is small, but you can stuff a lot of valuables into the 040 mm hole.
It is much easier to work with turned legs than with square ones, because the hiding place with round lid It's easier to make it invisible. The hollow bed post is completed with a decorative element.
The leg is turned with a length allowance of 15-25 mm for the round tenon of the removable lid. Having turned out a tenon of the required diameter, remove the leg from lathe and saw off top part along the lower edge of the spike. Then, using a drill with a diameter equal to the diameter of the tenon, a hole is drilled in the leg. To increase the useful volume of the cache, you can choose the material inside the decorative lid.
A wooden key on the tenon prevents the lid from accidentally turning (and revealing the hiding place). The location of the key is determined as follows. Place in the hole in the leg thin wire, then install the cover, matching the wood texture. The wire is pressed into the wood, leaving a mark for the groove. The latter is chosen with a depth of 3 mm and a width of 6 mm in each part and a 6x6x13 mm dowel is glued in. After this, the leg is ground clean to hide the joint.
DOMESTIC TABLES
Behind the frames or under the tabletop there is a huge space, ideal for placing hanging shelves. They can be attached on one side with hinges, or they can simply be laid on the harness, securing the other end with a removable bar on dowels. Our example shows a table with a central drawer that has secret shelf. The last one on the left rests on the harness, and on the right it is fixed with a latch. Having removed the box, support the shelf with one hand and open the latch with the other. Now the free edge of the shelf can be lowered until the shelf slides off the strapping. 
CABINET COVER AND BOTTOM 
The space between cabinet lids, as well as inside their bases, is usually little used. Tall cabinet with a 75 mm cornice around the perimeter of the lid, in addition to the real one, there is a false lid 13 mm thick under the cornice - it serves as a stop for the doors. Between the false lid and the first shelf two partitions are inserted into the grooves. To prevent this closed volume from disappearing, there is a hatch cut into the false lid that can be lifted from the inside. Thus, a secret compartment was created. 
To insert the hatch, mark two grooves running perpendicular to the rear wall in the false cover, and saw the cover into three parts. After this, the middle section is sawed across along the line of the grooves. Now the false cover consists of five elements. Glue the two outer sections and the outer parts of the middle section, creating an opening in the center. The remaining part fits tightly into it. Its edges are processed with an end plane, and then two planks are attached to it with screws perpendicular to the texture, protruding 15 mm on each side. They grind the lid, select the grooves in it and put it in place along with the partitions. The hatch can be lifted with your fingertips, but it will not fall inside, as it rests on the partitions and is held in place by two slats. 
You can also make a cabinet with a false bottom. In this case, the lower part of the front frame is made removable. It slides up and down along the groove and is secured in place with spring-loaded ball latches.
HIDDEN COMPARTMENTS IN BUILT-IN FURNITURE
Built-in wardrobes give much more possibilities for the arrangement of secret compartments. Even a cabinet as small as a 100mm deep first aid kit can serve as a means of accessing the same volume or even more space between wall frame studs. A full-size closet in a shortened attic wall can accommodate a hidden compartment large enough for a person to hide in it.
Most built-in bookstores and even kitchen cabinets stand on plinths ~100 mm high under the bottom of the cabinet. Here you can place the second bottom, either by securing it at the back with hinges, or simply laying it around the perimeter on slats. The second bottom must be made of the same material as the cabinet, otherwise, due to the difference in the expansion coefficients of the materials, the second bottom may jam. The second bottom should be designed so that it can be removed without additional handles. This can be done with a short piece of string, a metal gripper plate, or even a handle that is put in place only when necessary. A lever lift will also work.
The only thing that reveals the second bottom is a 04 mm hole near its front edge. A 3 mm dowel is inserted into it, which recesses the lever and raises the bottom.
When repairing and remodeling old houses or arranging an attic, wall niches are often not used, as well as openings behind the shortened walls of attics (where the roof meets the floor). All this can be partially used by embedding bookcases or chests of drawers. Built-in furniture is ideal for hiding access to unused space behind and next to it. Plywood back walls can be hung on loops and fixed magnetic latches or latches.
Paneled rear walls with flat plywood panels that slide to the side are not bad. The sliding panel on rollers, driven by a cord, also makes a great impression.