How to make furniture with secrets and hiding places

Each time dictates its own styles, including in furniture design. However, besides beauty, many interior items must also have additional functionality: have drawers, drawers and shelves. And in some cases - caches, small safes, disguised as ordinary tables, dressers or other pieces of furniture, as well as built-in bookcases and wardrobes.

Curved legs secretary decorated with carvings

Their presence always had its own meaning: here it was possible to hide what was not necessary to see the others. And, starting from the XVIII century, it was possible to find a secretary in any rich house, and in the Russian version - a desk where the owner kept especially valuable documents: bills of exchange, money, valuables.

Inside the furniture that has survived to the present day, various caches and secret boxes are very often found.

Furniture with a secret: advantages and features

Furniture with secrets - table and dresser with additional drawers.

In past centuries, in the homes of wealthy persons, a desk or cabinet with secret drawers, which were used to store especially important documents, money, and valuables, which made it possible to save them from thieves, was an indispensable attribute of a study. Later, in France, a special cupboard was invented, called the secretary, because it was really possible to keep various secret documents and small valuables in it.

The boxes were often supplied with secret locks and secret locking mechanisms.

The popularity of secretaries and other furniture "frills", equipped with various secret spaces, was not accidental. Their design has its advantages that ordinary tables and cabinets do not possess, and the features peculiar only to such products.

They are no less relevant today: in stylized safes and caches they store securities, expensive jewelry, important correspondence and documentation. Among the obvious advantages of such furniture include:

• storage of valuables without access to them by outsiders;
• their arrangement in various furniture elements;
• the possibility of making secret repositories with their own hands.

Among the factors characteristic of furniture with a secret, stand out the design features of such products, allowing you to prepare space for the storage of a particular type of property. As a rule, if the caches are specially equipped, they are supplied with secret locks, and today - with an electronic protection system.

Today, the furniture market offers products not only for personal use, but also for enterprises and organizations. In addition, it can be made to order according to individual drawings.

To open this table you need to place a special magnet in the right place, there are no more handles and levers

Caches in ordinary furniture

Caches are often settled under the furniture - in the empty space between the legs

Antique furniture - a storehouse of secrets and mysteries. Old cabinet makers turned furniture design elements into real works of art.The current masters make modern furniture in the old style, helping to create a special interior and complement it with hidden elements.

Caches in antique furniture

The acquisition of special tables, cabinets and cabinets with hiding places - the pleasure is quite expensive. But this does not mean that particularly important documents and jewelry will remain on the shelf in the closet.

Option cache in the house on the bookshelf

Finished furniture with hidden niches

Wall mirrors and pictures of special design can also be an excellent cache.

Today, various types of ordinary furniture, equipped with secret spaces. The caches can be located in any part of it, and the owners themselves can equip them, and by ordering their production to craftsmen, hiding places can be located:

• on the back surface of the table tops;
  

  The desktop can be equipped with sliding 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 keepers of home secrets

• under the bottom of the drawers of the desk;
  

  A double bottom box can be made by yourself

• in the hollow headboards of the bed;
  

  The idea of ​​arranging a convenient cache in the headboard

• in the armrests of chairs and sofas.
  

  Original caches in the armrests of an old sofa

Secret box or safe disguised as an outlet

Caches with your own hands or to order

Stash in the table, custom

There is not always a need to buy expensive exclusive furniture, equipped with hiding places. You can use the budget option by ordering the necessary element of furniture interior specialists in their own drawings. And you can try to create a homemade master and equip it with your own hands.

It can be equipped with secret places under the tabletops or inside them, in the doors of cabinets and cabinets, as well as shelves and drawers on which you can hit locks.

Interestingly equipped in the depths of the desk drawers are small “turnkey” niches with a secret.

An interesting version of the cache in the dresser

Hollow legs and furniture racks

A simple hiding place in furniture - in the hollow legs of a chair

Cache, arranged in these parts of the furniture, is considered a classic. It is quite simple to make it: you need to drill a hole of the selected size inside the furniture element. It is assumed that only one person will know about such a “secret” - the one who made it.

It is clear that the place of storage of valuables equipped here does not imply a large amount of them, which you need to remember to disguise in a convenient way.

Cache inside the chair seat

Caches in boxes

The double bottom box is a real classic that still works today.

Traditionally, caches are arranged in the drawers of a desk or dresser, where you can make a "second bottom". For its equipment they take the same material from which the furniture itself is made, of the same size, fasten it:

• stickies;
• magnetic strips in a plastic frame;
• other convenient ways.

The idea of ​​a small cache - a box inside the box

You can put flat objects there:

• documents;
• cash;
• Photo;
• securities.

Hidden "treasures" must also be fixed on the "second day".

Boxes with secrets for ordinary lockers

Caches in cabinets

Secret boxes, safely hidden in the most ordinary-looking bookshelves

Cabinets provide a wide field of activity for equipping hiding places from thieves. Their large internal and external space allows you to hide a large number of objects of various configurations.

Caches embedded in a regular cabinet

Sliding panel in the closet, hidden from prying eyes

Video: how to make - the easiest cache