Adding Bedroom Security to Your Home

At Northeast Security Solutions, we take a whole-house approach to home security. This means taking into account the security threats that each area of your home faces. By taking into account what each room holds, potential access to the room, and the level of life safety it deserves, we can secure your home as effectively as possible. When we take these factors into account, bedrooms rank at the very top of the household security “totem pole” in almost every instance. After all, bedrooms contain jewelry, cash and credit cards, and identifying documents. They almost always allow access from the outside of the home. Finally, they also house your and your family while everyone sleeps at night, making life safety a top priority! In today’s post, we share some valuable tips to help your efforts in adding bedroom security to your home to help you secure these important rooms.

First, we’ll show you how we can help you secure any weapons that you store in your bedroom or elsewhere around the home. Obviously, weapons can help defend you if a crime occurs at your home. However, you need to keep these same weapons locked up to avoid accidents, as well as to avoid them falling into the wrong hands if a break-in occurs in your absence. Then, we’ll detail adding surveillance-related security to keep eyes on your bedrooms at all times. From there, we’ll review some security system-related bedroom security measures. These will include both security sensors as well as valuable monitored life safety equipment as well. Now, let’s dive in by seeing how adding bedroom security to your home starts with properly securing your firearms and other weapons.

Properly Securing Any Weapons Stored in Your Bedroom

Our customers who own weapons often keep these weapons in their bedroom. Many of these same customers believe that their weapons will keep them safe from burglars. Of course, this is only true if the homeowner is home at the time of a break-in. Homeowners walking in on a break-in can find themselves in great danger if a thief finds these weapons first. We recommend using safes to safeguard your weapons. In fact, Massachusetts requires keeping guns in a locked container, if they are not locked with a tamper-resistant safety device, such as a mechanical lock. Even knives and other potential weapons should be stored in a safe place.

The potential for tragedies due to children or criminals finding your weapons in your absence make it well worth it to purchase a safe to secure your weapons. We have a wide variety of safes that will suit this purpose. If you own guns, we offer a variety of gun safes for all sizes and quantities of firearms. Using a safe to store your weapons adds bedroom security against both accidents and burglars. If you are considering purchasing a safe, make sure to follow our Best Practices for Safes to ensure proper maintenance and installation of your safe as well. Next up, let’s see how adding cameras can aid in adding bedroom security to your home.

Using Home Video Surveillance to Monitor Your Bedrooms

Residential surveillance systems have gotten more and more popular with our customers. We can install cameras both inside and outside your home. Exterior cameras provide a great overall view of your house. In the case of a burglary, homeowners have often found then invaluable in identifying how and when a crime occurred, at times even leading to an arrest of the criminal. To watch over the most important areas of your home, also consider adding interior cameras that monitor your bedroom doors. In the event something does go missing, reviewing your surveillance footage can help you track down the culprit.

Most homeowners also tie their cameras in to their local internet network, which allows for remote viewing. Taking this step provides the ability to look in to your home at any time. If you do install cameras, make sure to follow our Best Practices for Surveillance Cameras Maintenance. That post includes plenty of information on choosing the right cameras and maintaining them properly. It will also help prevent your cameras’ footage from leaking to outside observers. Now, let’s turn our attention to adding bedroom security to your home with security system-based security equipment.

Alarm-Based Bedroom Security Tips

If you’ve read our blog at all, you know that we’ve long recommended people install a monitored burglar alarm to secure any home. Doing so creates multi-layered security in the case of a life safety or burglary-related emergency. For starters, an activation creates a siren response to alert anyone at home to the danger. Moreover, this response often scares away any intruders. Additionally, our monitoring service also ensures that our central station responds to your alarm as well, and even creates a police or fire department dispatch if needed. In this section, we’ll show you how you can use alarm equipment to better secure your bedrooms. Let’s start with a description of some alarm contacts you can add to secure your bedroom against the threat of a burglary!

Securing Your Bedrooms Against a Burglary

When it comes to bedroom security, we recommend taking any additional steps possible to secure these areas against a potential breach. Since people sleep in their bedrooms, this is where they would be most vulnerable during a home invasion. We suggest adding window sensors to any accessible bedroom windows. We especially recommend this for parents of small children. Doing so ensures that a burglar attempting to directly enter a bedroom will sound your alarm’s siren. This will wake everyone in your household up and will quite possibly scare the thief away before entering your home.

Above and beyond window sensors, we also offer sensors that can create valuable layers of additional security to your bedroom. After all, window sensors only catch thieves if they open a window to gain entrance. Our glass break detectors can react to the sound and air impact of breaking glass in a room. This catches thieves trying to enter your bedroom without opening the window! Additionally, our window shock sensors detect the force of someone attempting to force the window open before it actually happens. This catches them in the act before breaching your property! Both of these security sensors make great additions to your bedroom security plans.

Adding Life Safety to Your Bedrooms and Sleeping Areas

We’ve always recommend adding life safety to your alarm in the form of smoke and carbon monoxide (or CO) detection. Monitored smoke and carbon monoxide detection can add tremendous bedroom security by alerting you to an emergency in your home and creating a fire department dispatch at the same time! In Massachusetts, homes built before 1997 do not require any smoke alarms or detectors inside bedrooms. However, we recommend adding this security even when not required. Having alarm-connected smoke detectors and CO detectors both inside and outside of bedrooms goes a long way towards securing the people sleeping inside the bedrooms in your home. Next up, let’s see how you can use a variety of different types of safes to create unique security for your most important possessions!

Putting it All Together and Adding Bedroom Security to Your Home

We hope that this post aids you in adding bedroom security to your own home. Moreover, we encourage you to contact us if you have any questions concerning the material in this post. We will gladly answer any and all of your security-related inquiries. Additionally, we also invite you to take advantage of our free site survey program. We offer free security audits and equipment quotes to both new and existing customers alike.

Perhaps you have some security measures in place, but wish to take advantage of the tips you’ve read today. Or, maybe you have very little in the way of security now, and and want to get a plan in place. Either way, we are here to help. Over our 36-plus years in business, we’ve helped over a thousand customers create home complete home security plans. Together, we can create a security plan for your entire property to help keep your home, your valuables, and your family as safe and secure as possible!