Toolbox

Toolbox and garage diversion safes

The garage is the one room in the house that nobody has an inventory of. Boxes of screws, half-used tins, tools in a drawer, a shelf of things kept because they might be useful one day. One more box on the bench is invisible, and that is what makes a garage or a workshop one of the best places in a home to keep something out of sight.

Toolbox diversion safes are workshop objects with a compartment inside: a fixing, a tool, a maintenance product. They sit on the bench or in the drawer with everything else, and nobody going through a house in a hurry is going to open a box of screws one at a time.

What fits inside

Compact fixings take rolled banknotes, a key, a USB stick or a memory card. Larger tools and containers take cards, a small jewellery item or several folded notes. Every product page gives the outside dimensions and the usable compartment separately, so you can measure what you want to store and choose once.

Where to put it

Among its own kind. A screw goes in the box of screws, not alone on a shelf. A tool goes in the drawer with the other tools. A maintenance product goes on the shelf with the sprays and the oils. Anything standing apart from its family is the one thing that gets picked up.

A garage also has an advantage no other room has: it is dusty, and dust is the best proof that something has not been touched. One thing worth knowing is that garages and sheds get damp and cold in winter, so cash, keys, coins and metal keep perfectly well out there, while paper documents and anything with a battery are happier indoors.

Why the garage works

Because searching it properly takes time nobody has. Somebody in a hurry goes straight to the bedroom, the desk and the living room, where valuables usually are, and leaves. A wall of boxes and tins with no obvious place to start is skipped altogether, and whatever you left in there is still in there.

It works for the household reason as well as the security one. A garage or a workshop is often the one part of a shared home where nobody else has any business opening anything.

The rest of the range

The kitchen collection covers food tins, jars and drink cans, the bathroom collection covers personal care containers, and the car collection covers accessories for the glovebox and the boot. Everything is in the full catalogue.

Made by hand, shipped from Spain

Most of these objects are assembled by hand to order, which is why preparation takes about a week before the parcel leaves. Orders travel in plain, unbranded packaging with a tracking number, to more than fifty countries. Times by destination are in the shipping policy, and the FAQ answers the rest.

These are decorative containers with a concealed compartment, not certified safes: they offer no protection against fire, water or forced entry, and they are intended for the lawful storage of your own belongings.