This is a nice little cabinet. I think your need would depend on whether your house had air conditioning and if you were located in a humid area. Most of us in the USA south (Louisiana, Florida, Mississippi, etc.), now have AC, so the interior is kept reasonably dry during the long muggy summer. Ironically, a New Englander without central AC might have a more damp house in summer than a southerner. Alternate: when I lived in Burma in the 1950s, my father kept a light bulb burning in the closet to keep the contents a bit dehumidified. We also left the gramophone on so that the tubes were warm all the time.