Where should you install a cupboard safe?

Security in the home or workplace is an essential consideration in order to safeguard your belongings, whether they have high financial value, personal value or commercial value. One of the most important considerations when choosing the right safe for your needs, is where it will be located. This can be dictated by circumstances and the space you have available, but given the option, you would ideally want a safe to be hidden away from view. This adds a secondary layer of security and protection. In this respect, the wall or floor safe are amongst the most popular, because these are a type of safe that can be entirely concealed from view, but the cupboard safe is also popular for the same reason.

What is a cupboard safe?

A cupboard safe is a type of safe that can be concealed inside a cupboard. This means that if an intruder is on your premises and searching for a safe full of valuables, they won’t immediately be able to see it. They may then spend important time searching for it and getting nowhere, and in their haste may decide against going any further, and if you are lucky they will beat a retreat without anything to show for their criminal endeavours. At the very least, while looking for a safe, an intruder may be disturbed before getting their hands on as many valuables as they wanted to. But if an intruder can’t find a safe at all, that is the best result for you, and in that sense, where you locate a cupboard safe is vitally important.

The best location for a cupboard safe

You might be thinking that surely a cupboard is the best location for a cupboard safe, and of course it is, but this goes much deeper than that, and if you think about this strategically, you can locate a safe to adequately foil and outfox the intruder. Here we have listed the key considerations you need to make when thinking about the best location for your cupboard safe.

• Not the first room – Don’t locate the safe in the first room an intruder is likely to come to. This is where they will carry out the largest percentage of their time, and so there is a higher likelihood that they will search more thoroughly in this room. Some people locate a ‘decoy’ safe in a room such as this, filled with inexpensive jewellery or other dummy valuables. If you are lucky this could completely throw them off the scent, while your actual valuables are stored safely elsewhere.
• Not a high traffic room – By high traffic we mean, the most obvious. This would normally be a living room or the master bedroom. These are the higher profile rooms that are more regularly occupied, and hence an intruder will expect one of these to be the room you choose to store the safe. Instead you should choose a cupboard in a spare bedroom or a utility room.
• Space – Can you store the safe in a cupboard where there is some space in front of it? This can help you store items in front of the safe so that it is even further concealed. This kind of disguise can prevent an intruder being successful because they are making a very quick visual scan, and often in dark conditions, so any attempt to conceal a safe within a cupboard, is likely to be successful.
• Securing – Can you choose a cupboard location where the safe can be securely anchored into the cupboard cavity? This is not always possible due to the weight or design of the safe, but most commonly because of the framework or surrounding structure of the cupboard. If you can choose a cupboard location where the safe can be secured within it, this prevents the intruder picking up the safe and taking it away in its entirety. Instead, the intruder has to access the safe there and then. Again, this costs the intruder vital seconds and is more likely to result in them retreating from your property without much success.
• Convenience – This is a low priority requirement, but convenience is also a consideration you need to think about. Essentially, how often will you need to access the safe? If you need to access the safe regularly (once a day, or more) then the safe needs to be located where this regular access doesn’t become a nuisance and too much trouble. If you only have to access the safe very rarely, the location is less important and perhaps it doesn’t matter if this process takes a little time.

Strong and robust cupboard safes from MB Direct

Our range of cupboard safes at MB Direct can be supplied according to the style, size and insurance rating you require, and you can also choose the access method that most suits you; key, code/PIN or biometric feature.  We have a number of options to choose from, so check out our range and make the ideal choice for your cupboard safe today.