Single women living alone, or wives whose husbands travel, will sleep far better at night if they have a secret place they can retreat to if trouble should come. In addition, all bedrooms should have solid-core doors with long-throw deadbolts. If you do not yet have this protection, I urge you to get it done with all possible speed.
Even if you are renting, you can have a carpenter build you some sort of furniture with a secret hiding place. If you already own your home, you may be able to turn a guest-room closet into a safe room.
If you are about to remodel or build, then locate a copy of Secret Rooms, Secret Compartments, by Jerry Dzindzeleta (Plastic comb binding, self-published, 1990). Don’t be put off by the unedited writing, the photo-copied pages, the typos, or the $29.95 price. Dzindzeleta gives detailed plans for secret places and spaces that are better than any others I have ever come across. My favorite is The Moving Closet. This closet can be constructed with both walls and ceiling made from single sheets of drywall or paneling, so imagine a burglar, a rapist or a stalker trying to figure that one out!
(This information is taken from the e-book
Invisible Money.)
Labels: bedroom doors, burglars, deadbolts, home privacy, privacy help, rapists, secret compartments, secret hiding places, secret room, solid core doors, stalkers, women living alone
Privacy blog post by JJ Luna at 12:04 AM
