Safe Rooms Are A Rare Security Feature For Cautious Homeowners

• BETH W. ORENSTEIN, The Morning Call

  Two builders of upscale homes in the Lehigh Valley, Tony Caciolo of Monogram Custom Homes Ltd. in Coopersburg and Myron R. Haydt of Haydt Development Inc. in Salisbury Township, say they, too, have built safe rooms for clients. ...

  About three years ago, Caciolo says, he built a safe room for a local executive who wanted it "just in case of burglary." The room is accessed through a bulletproof door in his closet and is wired for its own phone.

  "Ironically," Caciolo says, "the only place I could find bulletproof material to put on the walls was in Waco, Texas."

  Caciolo also built a secret room in a $2 million house for a client who had valuable collectibles. "This was more to protect his stuff than to protect him," Caciolo says.