“You can shoot at it all day long and you’re not going to get in there,” Rigdon says. “In the type of residence we’re working in, they can be 1,000 square feet.” The room itself-walls, doors and windows-will be blast-resistant and impervious to ballistics and forced entry, he explains: “We base the criteria on what the US government does for their embassies overseas.”īill Rigdon, CEO of Los Angeles-based Building Consensus, whose panic rooms start at $50,000 and go up to more than $1 million depending on the specs, makes his doors out of AR500 armor plate, used in bank vaults and by the military. “It tends to be her walk-in closet,” which he says can double as a vault for jewelry, guns and art and a place to shelter in case of home intrusion. The new generation of panic rooms are usually multipurpose, says Tom Gaffney, president of Gaffco Ballistics, based in Vermont. That last line of defense between you and the bad guy should be controlled only by you and your loved ones.īut the sudden popularity of reinforced-concrete shelters may say more about the state of our national psyche than about an actual lack of residential security. Though safes, alarm systems and cameras are now standard fare, and private security services have a host of other methods at their disposal, part of the appeal of a panic room, Vranicar says, is that “you pay me once, we put it in there, and you can lock me out.” That’s not the case anymore.” Demand is roughly four times higher than it was pre-2020, he says, and requests are increasingly elaborate.Ī panic room door designed by Fortified & Ballistic Security. “In order to be our client, you had to be really, really paranoid and you had to be really, really wealthy.
“We used to be the niche within a niche,” says David Vranicar, managing partner at Fortified & Ballistic Security, in Miami. Today, purveyors of concealed armor-plated doors say demand has moved decisively from the fringes into the mainstream. Carter, who asked that we not use his real name because of security concerns (of course), built his six years ago, when custom bunkers were still uncommon outside of celebrity compounds and doomsday cults. Peace of mind is what panic-room manufacturers sell. The Co-Founder of Honey Lists His Mega-Mansion in Bel Air for $150 MillionĪdam Carter, owner of the house and its hidden internal refuge, describes himself as “a very ordinary, nondescript 58-year-old, with a family, working from home.” A marketing consultant from the Southwest, Carter has “valuable possessions” to protect, but not “bars of gold or stock certificates.” Instead, he wants to ensure that his wife and children “can get someplace safe where there is literally no way that anybody can force entry,” he says. Phillips Is Opening an LA Outpost After Hitting a Record $746 Million in Mid-Year Sales You Can Now Rent Renowned Photographer Douglas Friedman’s Charming Bellport, New York Estate
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