Wooden furniture with secrets at home

Furniture with hiding places has been known for a long time. During the time of palace coups, secret letters, treaties, plans to overthrow the government were reliably hidden in them. In the houses of eminent officials, there were always cabinets, tables and secret niches and drawers in furniture, where important documents, money, and jewelry were kept.

Despite the fact that times change, caches in furniture for some buyers remain quite relevant.

In some types of modern furniture sets designed for offices, as well as their individual elements, you can find secret places provided by the design, where you can store something that is not necessary for everyone to see.

Advantages and disadvantages of furniture with secrets and hiding places

Furniture of this kind is structurally quite interesting, because it demonstrates the master's capabilities in decorating seemingly ordinary interior items with various secrets.

There are a huge number of options for their arrangement. Some of them are well known. Today you will not surprise anyone with a built-in small safe, which is disguised as one of the sections of cabinet furniture. It usually stores large amounts of money and especially important documents and other papers that are not intended for public viewing.

Using secrets has many benefits, including:

• exclusion of access of unauthorized persons to the contents of the cache;
• the possibility of arrangement in various pieces of furniture and their elements;
• when making with your own hands - the originality of the design, excluding access to the cache of other people;
• self-production or individual order, providing structural exclusivity.

There are disadvantages for this type of furniture, among them:

• a mandatory sign is required by which you can find a cache if it is equipped in one of the same pieces of furniture, in one of the chairs, for example;
• if a niche can only be opened with a special key or other device, it should have a separate storage location, or, conversely, on a common bundle, but located only with the owner and easily recognizable by him;
• in case of force majeure it will not be easy to get to the storage facility and pick up its contents.

How to make furniture with secrets and hiding places with your own hands (cabinets, drawers and other furniture)

Despite the fact that most of us buy furniture in stores, there are enough home craftsmen with skillful hands who can not only make furniture that is beautiful, but also unusual in design, filled with secrets.

Among the items that are traditionally used to decorate secret places are:

• tables with additional drawers;
• bookcases with an additional hidden shelf;
• hollow-legged chairs;
• hollow headboards
• "Double bottom" beds, tabletops;
• other parts of furniture items.

What you need to make

To make furniture with hiding places and secrets, you need:

• determine what exactly will be manufactured;
• draw up a sketch;
• make calculations for the acquisition of the necessary material;
• prepare the necessary tools;
• execute the drawing.

Preparation of all materials and tools

To complete the plan, you will need a set of tools, the mandatory list of which includes:

• hand saws for wood and metal, planers and jointers, chisels of various sizes, furniture stapler, cutting tools, a set of screwdrivers;
• electric drill, screwdriver with sets of bits and drills;
• workbench with a vice;
• measuring instruments.

This is the minimum set of tools that will be required for the job. Depending on the sample being executed, it can be supplemented.

As for the materials, their choice is also individual, depending on whether it will be a full-fledged piece of furniture, or the work will be aimed at making secret sections.

Schemes and drawings

The presence of a sketch, and then drawing up a drawing are prerequisites for high-quality and productive performance of carpentry work. Making wooden furniture with secrets with his own hands, the master will be able to most realistically think over and calculate the required dimensions of the furniture itself and built-in hiding places, as well as the financial costs that will be required for manufacturing.

In addition, during execution, it is necessary to constantly check with the drawing so that the finished product fully corresponds to the idea.

For those who do not have the skills of a draftsman, graph paper will become an assistant, on which it is quite simple to apply all the elements, observing the dimensional parameters.

Manufacturing process

The order of work depends on the location of the secret niches, shelves and boxes. You can get acquainted with the exact manufacturing procedure by visiting one of the thematic sites or by taking part in a master class conducted by experienced home craftsmen.

How and where can you order ready-made furniture

Not everyone is given to be craftsmen, and not everyone wants to be engaged in the manufacture of furniture, so for those who want to acquire furniture with hiding places, you can use one of the methods: buy a finished product or order it according to an individual project. In the latter case, you can place an application in different ways:

• personally visiting the office of one of the companies;
• invite a representative by phone;
• make an online application via the Internet.

It should be noted that in many cases the latter option may be preferable. On the website of a reputable company, as a rule, there is a virtual catalog, which contains samples of manufactured furniture with an indication of the materials used.

It is possible to agree with the manufacturers on the introduction of individual requirements into the offered products - in this way, you can get ready-made furniture with the equipment of hiding places, only the customer will know about the functioning, location and features of use.

At the same time, it is precisely wooden furniture that should be given preference: it fits perfectly into the interior of any apartment, does not attract unnecessary attention from overly curious relatives or thieves.

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