Thread: Storing keys and wallet

False / secret panel in a piece of furniture / hinged seat on a chair / spring loaded dummy powerpoint.

Just some off the cuff thoughts

Ledge inside a kitchen or vanity cabinet or drawer set, about 120mm deep and set below the bench top, bottom flush with top spreader rail of the cabinet. Open the drawer or door, reach in, flip wrist and deposit or retrieve, remove hand, and close drawer or door. Can accommodate other goodies in the same or similar spaces as well.

Leave a set of spare keys including a car key that fit nothing you own and a wallet with some expired cards and a $5 note in the obvious position for a thief to quickly find and pinch, and put the real keys and wallet somewhere less obvious.

My kitchen drawer has a tray about two thirds the depth of the drawer and about 60mm deep for the cutlery which is on timber runners, and it can slide back to reveal less used tongs, mixing spoons etc., which could be a possible place for storing wallets etc.

Hopefully others will come up with some clever ideas.

Alan...

Bruce Willis?
Taliban?
AK47?
Rotweiler with a lacky band around his goolies?

Update on this one.
I made a pivoting tray that fixes to the underside of the breakfast bar. It holds three sets of keys and a mobile phone.
Better to see the photos than try to describe it. Easy to flip it out throw in your gear and know that it isn't visible to intruders.

where I life keys stay in car, wallet is either in car or back pocket, nearest neighbour 2.5 k away and CCCTV cameras around driveway entrance

Might be a good idea not announce to the world where we stash our valuables if you know what I mean.

You never know who might be looking

Yeah I agree about showing hides but if nobody does then the ideas can't grow. It is amazing how an idea can produce many variations and sometimes totally different concepts.

I also came up with a good wallet hide but will keep that to myself for the time being.

A hide is not a secure place to store valuables and is only meant to stop the opportunist and I think I have achieved that.

These hides are very convenient to use so there is less chance of going back to the bowl in the kitchen to store everything.

One of the things for me is line of sight. The keys and wallet are in my eye sight even when i go to sleep.

Originally Posted by Christos

One of the things for me is line of sight. The keys and wallet are in my eye sight even when i go to sleep.

We can only presume that you don't roll over in your sleep

Originally Posted by Bob38S

We can only presume that you don't roll over in your sleep

Wow. It's like you are reading my mind.

Hey Beer is Good, you forgot the Hoff and Jackie Chan!!!

But Chuck Norris is the one you really want

A Book hide would be a good place , and a quick build as well .

If not a book, the next step up could be a box which is full of junk that has a secret drawer that slides out from the end or back , the drawer can be spring loaded and the box of mitered construction with some marquetry design applied . The marquetry will help disguise the drawer front . A spring loaded button for the release of the drawer can be hidden inside with the junk. Ive seen plenty of this in Victorian writing boxes and Georgian writing bureau's . With writing boxes the usual release is hidden as part of the sections dividing the inkwells , a little divider slides up a little and the cover over the three secret drawers springs off. The most amazing one I remember seeing which had all the older guys in the workshop amazed was a high quality box , the release turned out to be a spring loaded piece of wood , part of the inside wall of the box , the wall had a long crack in it , it followed the grain which wandered a little , the builder had cracked it intentionally and the lower part , pushed in, released the cover and sprang back into position . A fault built into it !! ha ha , it was passed around for each guy to solve it for themselves, all older cabinet makers than me . Most of the time if it wasn't the inkwell dividers it would be a brass button .

One group of guys at another restoration business heard a noise while shifting a large Oak 1850s cabinet base. when they found the secret compartment they opened a time capsule of letters and coins and a leaflet saying that this cabinet was going to be displayed at the Great exhibition of 1851 in London.

Don't make it too well hidden

https://www.google.com.au/search?q=H...ed=0CAYQ_AUoAQ

http://how2dostuff.blogspot.com.au/2...llow-book.html

Rob

ps Here is another good idea with a box, the lift up side.

https://dbcww.wordpress.com/projects/boxes/

Hi Rob,
I have seen a secret compartment like you describe in a Victorian writing box.
Thanks for reminding me and for the links - plenty of ideas in those.