>>2947167
>safe in the most obvious hiding spot ever
If you did it right you could make it look like that little cubby doesn't even exist. Not like some thief is going to go around measuring your chimney width outside then come inside to measure and verify that it is fully in the corner of the room and there isn't some hidden area there... In fact I'm pretty amazed that it wasn't just walled off during construction to eliminate are that little cubby anyways.