There is a growing trend among preppers and non preppers alike of creating hidden storage to secure valuables, weapons, or even food. From small in-the-wall spaces to large safe rooms, hidden storage is becoming more and more creative.
Preppers hide things for a several reasons. Like everyone else, they want to conceal their valuables: jewelry, money gold. Above and beyond that, they want to prepare for the dire times when their neighbors and even friends become desperate enough to break into their houses looking for their “stash.” In these circumstances, preppers expect that everything becomes valuable and look to conceal the things they have invested in, such as food, seeds, medicine and so on.
Here are a few ideas to get you started…
- Wall Storage. There are many options for creating secret storage spaces in your walls. One of these options is behind the cabinet box. It involves placing a storage box inside of the wall behind the interior area of the cabinet. Another interesting wall storage idea involves placing a small storage area behind a plug or a light switch. Perhaps one of the most familiar ways to create a secret storage space is to put it behind a picture. It is in fact so familiar that it becomes far too easy to find. It is probably a good idea to avoid placing your valuables behind a painting. Instead, consider a shelf equipped with a switch, that pulls out of the wall to reveal a secret drawer or a wall light that comes out and exposes a cylindrical hiding space in the wall.
- Staircase Storage. Another common storage option is inside the staircase. Install the hinges on a step to open it and reveal the hidden space.
- Floor Storage. Floor storage is another convenient space that can accommodate larger items. It is also easy to have several storage units in multiple rooms. They are very easy to install. You simply have to lift the floor boards, find the spaces that were left by carpenters for easy pipe and wire access, build boxes of corresponding sizes, insert them in the spaces you find in the floor and cleverly cover them up. This is a great way to conceal some of your survival supplies
- Basement Storage. One of the easy (and frequently ignored) places to install storage is the basement. Basement are prime candidates for secret storage spaces because they are usually a labyrinth of rooms, wires, furnaces, water heaters and other smart and important things that are essentially the “internal organs” of your house. The benefit of building hidden storage in the basement is that everyone expects idle space between the basement walls, but not many people expect to ever find anything in that space.
When you think about creating hidden storage spaces, think “plain sight.” Use the idle spaces that naturally occur in your home to create storage for your survival supplies.
To your survival,
Joseph Wilkinson
