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Just wondered if anyone here has been in the situation of coming to sell their house and what they did about house viewings and cabinets.

My cabinets are out of sight of casual viewers, since they're in my office. However if we're showing visitors round there's little way to make them more discreet, cover them in sheets? Say nothing? Draw no attention?

Anyone encountered this. How did you handle it?

Only from the buyers perspective. One house had an obvious cabinet in the garage that had had a half-arsed 'Scooby-doo ghost' make over and I just jokingly asked if it was included in the price. He pretended it was empty and was 'there when I got there guv' but once I told him I was a shooter and we got chatting he opened up about it.

Its an interesting one though. My job takes me into all kinds of houses/properties and I'd say most people don't even bother to cover them up, they're just in the corner of an upstairs room where they're not expecting people to go into. As long as there aren't a load of gun stickers and what not on it I think a lot of people just assume they're filing cabinets or something.

when I sold my flat, I told the estate agent I didn't want people looking in the cupboard they were in, so I wedged the door. they said they'd tell people it just had private stuff in there.

I viewed a house that one of the bedrooms had a keypad handle lock on it. the estate agent did a comic, 'oh I just pulled the door shut as I went to open it' routine. saying the owner had tech stuff and computers etc in it. I just rolled my eyes and never contacted her again.

I figured I would just put a cardboard box around it so it just looked like storage.

We recently sold our house and i made up a furniture board box with a lid and a small door nob on it, so it looked like a cupboard.I could lift it in front of the safe when a viewing was booked took it of after they had left.

I've recently moved, my home office had 2 gun safes, a reloading bench with a Dillon XL650 & I didn't bother trying to hide it. At the end of the day the estate agents have all the details of any viewers & none of them should have access to my new address.

When I was still in a shared flat as a student I had a safe in one corner which I surrounded with a cheap fabric wardrobe like the one below.

One day my housemate moaned they couldn't find my safe to show my friends so evidently it did a good enough job disguising it.

I built an MDF cupboard (mainly because I had a load of it of suitable size) around my cabinets with enough space inside to store anything obvious. This had two hasps that were padlocked. Estate agents were told it's just for storage and it was left at that. I had tool boxes and tools stored all over the room so a simpler leap to a conclusion would be more tools in there. It had a load off Nuka Cola and Sunset Saparilla posters on it to make it look less boring than plain mdf.

My reloading gear was stored in plain boxes and could quickly and easily be bolted to my bench/desk when necessary. I made sure anything else related to shooting was locked away out of sight too.

I put mine in the large fitted wardrobe with sliding doors as was the fashion for new 70s houses. Long coats on the hangers completely conceal them.

I moved last year, I did all the viewings as I didn’t want strangers in the house if I wasn’t there (agent more than happy to let me do them) Cabinets were in the divided integral garage, impossible to miss them. So i just said that my hobby is target shooting. Every one of the of the viewee’s took an interest. Like many things in life the antis are very vocal but don’t really represent the views of the vast majority of the public.