Every time dictates the style, including the furniture design. However, besides the beauty, many home furnishings should have also additional functionality: to have the boxes, drawers and shelves. And in some cases - caches, small safes disguised as ordinary tables, dressers or other furniture, as well as built-in bookshelves and wardrobes.
Secretary with curved legs, decorated with carving
Their presence has always had its own meaning: it could hide something that did not need to see the rest. And, since the XVIII century, in any rich house you can find a secretary, and in the Russian version - the desk where the owner kept a particularly valuable documents: bills, money, jewelry.
Inside extant antique furniture is often found various hiding places and secret drawers
Content
- 1 Furniture with a secret: the benefits and features
- 2 Geocaches in ordinary furniture
- 3 Finished furniture with hidden niches
- 4 Geocaches with their hands or to order
- 5 Hollow legs and rack furniture
- 6 Geocaches in boxes
- 7 Geocaches in closets
- 8 Video: how to do - the easiest cache
Furniture with a secret: the benefits and features
Furniture with secrets - a table and a cabinet with additional boxes
In past centuries in homes of wealthy special mandatory accessory working room was a table or cabinet with secret boxes, which were used for storage of critical documents, money, valuables, enabling protect them from thieves. Later, in France, it was invented by a special table, wardrobe, bureau named, because it really could save various secret documents and small valuables.
Boxes are often provided with security locks and secret locking mechanism
Popularity Writing desks and other furniture "frills", equipped with a variety of concealed spaces, was not accidental. Their design has its advantages not possessed by ordinary tables and cabinets, and features unique to such products.
No less relevant they are today: in a stylized safes and caches hold securities, expensive jewelry, important correspondence and documentation. Among the obvious advantages of such furniture can be noted:
- storage of valuables without access to outsiders;
- their arrangement in various furniture items;
- possibility of making secret storage with their own hands.
Additional factors specific for furniture with secret distinguished design features of such products, allowing to prepare a place for storing a particular type of property. As a rule, if the caches are equipped specifically, they are equipped with security locks, and today - the system of electronic protection.
Today, the furniture market offers products not only for personal use, but also for businesses and organizations. In addition, it can be custom made according to individual drawings.
To open the table you want to place a special magnet to the right place, no other knobs and levers are no
Geocaches in ordinary furniture
Caches often equip a kitchen - in the empty space between the legs
Antique furniture - a storehouse of secrets and mysteries. Old master cabinetmakers transformed elements of furniture design in works of art. The current master of contemporary furniture made in the old style, helping to create a special interior and supplement it with blind elements.
Geocaches in antique furniture
Purchase of special tables, cupboards and cabinets with hiding places - fun fairly expensive. But this does not mean that the very important documents and jewelry and will remain on the shelf in the closet.
Option hiding in a house on the bookshelf
Finished furniture with hidden niches
Wall mirrors and special design pattern may also be a great cache
Today, it produces various kinds of conventional furniture, equipped with secret spaces. Recesses may be located in any part of it, and can equip them as the owners themselves with their own hands, and by ordering their production masters, hiding places can be located:
- on the back surface countertops;
Desk can be fitted with pull-out shelves, the existence of which is not easy to guess
- in the hollow spaces of the legs of tables and chairs, banquettes;
Chairs-piggy banks or custodians of domestic secrets
- under the bottom drawer of his desk;
A box with a false bottom, you can do it yourself
- in hollow headboards;
The idea of everything conveniently hiding in the back of the bed
- in the arms of chairs and sofas.
Original recesses in the arms of an old sofa
The secret drawer or safe disguised as a wall outlet
Geocaches with their hands or to order
Hiding place in the table, custom
It is not always necessary to buy expensive exclusive furniture, equipped with hiding places. You can use a budget option for ordering an item of furniture interior specialists in their own drawings. A handyman can try to create and equip it with their hands.
It can be equipped with hiding places under the sink or inside, the door closets and cabinets and shelves and drawers that can be embedded in the locks.
Interesting equipped in the depths of his desk drawers small niches "turnkey" with a secret.
An interesting variant of hiding in the dresser
Hollow legs and rack furniture
Simple cache for furniture - in the hollow legs of the chair
Cache, equipped in these parts of furniture, is considered a classic. To make it quite simple: you have within the furniture element to drill a hole the size selected. It is assumed that about this "secret" is to know only one person - the one who has made it.
It is clear that the place of deposit box is not equipped with a large number of them suggests that you need to remember to disguise a convenient way.
Council. Make holes should be very careful not to overdo it with their diameter, so as not to weaken the structure and cause it to malfunction.
Cache in the chair seat
Geocaches in boxes
A box with a false bottom - a real classic, which operates to this day
Traditionally recesses are arranged in a desk drawer or chest, where it is possible to make a "second bottom." For its equipment take the same material of construction of the furniture itself, the same size, to fix it:
- Velcro;
- magnetic strips in the plastic frame;
- other convenient ways.
The idea of a small cache - box inside the box
Put there can be flat objects:
- documents;
- cash;
- photos;
- securities.
Hidden "treasures" must also be mounted on the "second floor".
Boxes with secrets for conventional lockers
Geocaches in closets
Secret drawers securely hidden in the most ordinary-looking bookshelf
Scope for hiding places equipment from thieves offer cabinets. Their large internal and external space allows to hide a large number of objects of various configurations.
Caches are built into an ordinary closet
| Location cache | What can hide | How to fix |
| Under the bottom of the cabinet, in the far corner | Jewelry, small items of value | · Lay down in a box of suitable size and placed on the floor; · Packed in a bag and attach Velcro to the bottom of the cabinet |
| Behind the rear wall | Documents, securities. Jewelry, art paintings |
Secure in batches and attach with tape or glue |
| Over the inner surface of the mirror | Only flat objects | use tape |
| At the bottom of the cabinet - forming a second bottom | Any items corresponding to a height of the second bottom | Fold in the niche, the second bottom cover |
| In the far corner of the inside of the cabinet, disguised as a shoebox | Items suitable for the size of the box | Box with lid, lockable, put in a box from under the shoe, attached with screws to the the floor of the cabinet, put a pair of shoes, which nobody uses, cover of the shoe boxes |
Drawer in the cabinet, hidden from prying eyes
Attention! Before hiding the thing you need to decide who may know of the existence of the cache, and have access to it, so that, in case of detection of the household, not to get into an awkward situation.