Drawer safes may not be as commonplace or popular as other types of safes such as office safes or fireproof safes, in fact up to last year I wasn’t even sure what a drawer safe actually was! However all that changed when my home was burgled last year and I lost not only many items of value but items of sentimental value as well which no amount of financial compensation could ever replace.

The beauty of a drawer safe is that thieves will not know where it is, and if they do happen to stumble upon it they will not be able to open it. This is why drawer safes are sometime known as hidden safes and by having one I could have prevented the theft of my family’s personal valuables.

Companies who supply drawer safes for the home market specialize in the design and installation of hidden safes and secret compartments. The most popular models are designed to protect jewelry, cash, passports, handguns and other small items that don’t need to be lying around. Often manufacturers call this hidden safe the “jewelry drawer safe” because most people want to hide jewelry in it.

There are a vast range of drawer safes available to the consumer and I did my research carefully and thoroughly before purchasing. Many drawer safes on the market have easy opening feature which means that it can be opened in about a second! But only the owner will know where it is and how it opens. This means there is no fumbling about with combinations or losing keys; all you need to do is just activate the hidden switch/switches and your safe opens like magic. These safes can be hidden so well that, unless you tell them, your family members won’t even know about it.

Most drawer safes are fire-proof and will operate on a 12 volt system making them functional even during a power cut. Also there are a range of switches which will open drawer safes however I don’t think it wise to say too much about that on the Internet!

Have you though about other items you could store securely in your drawer safe? Increasingly family medications both prescribed and off the shelf, are being kept in drawer safes. We have all know the consequences of children having unsupervised access to prescription drugs therefore many parents will buy drawer safes to give peace of mind that their children are unable to gain access to them.

Of course drawer safes are not just for the domestic market. Nowadays many hotels have found them to be a cost-effective and efficient replacement to the usual cupboard safes which you would normally expect to find in your hotel room. The advantage of installing a drawer safe is that it maximizes precious space in the room and with real estate costs rising, this is a bonus which the developer cannot afford to miss out on. Also it has the added advance of holding most sizes of laptops, a feature which hotel rooms with conventional cupboard safes cannot offer.