Floor Safe Alternative

Finding a Suitable Home Safe

• When you determining the type of safe you need, you must first analyze your risks and what you will be protecting. A bank would obviously have a relatively high risk of robbery if they did not employ the best safes or vaults on the market to keep their product safe. The average home or small-business owner, however, does not need a safe with identical security specifications as a bank, so you must look at the safes that are more suited to your individual needs. The most common and widely used safe for home and small-business use will be a fireproof and theft proof safe that costs $200 to $400.

What Size Do You Need?

• The size of the safe you require is based on your own personal need and preference. Their are many different sizes, ranging from a safe that looks like a pop can to a larger safe that measures 72 by 60 by 28 inches and is primarily used for gun storage. If you plan to keep only small valuables and emergency cash, then a safe measuring 16 by14.5 by16.5 inches should be more than substantial to fit your current valuables and any that you may acquire.

What Style Do You Need?

• The styles of home safes are nearly just as numerous as the size, and these styles are made with the thought of a diverse set of people buying safes for innumerable personal reasons. The most traditional is a floor safe that is free standing and sits in a room in plain view, but many kinds of safes can be hidden from view. The most simple of these is the "soda can" safe, which is extremely popular for hiding small cash reserves. A drawer safe is another very popular style for which you can choose one of three options with most manufacturers: You install the safe, allowing complete secrecy, the maker installs it, or the maker installs it in a piece of furniture and ships it to you. Wall safes are probably the most popular style of safes and can be hidden in places such as behind a portrait or in a false air vent.