Types of Closets
- Broom closet: A narrow floor-to-ceiling space for the storage of lengthy items.
- Coat closet: A coat closet is a closet of a house where people store their hoods, jackets and coats. A coat closet is typically located in the entryway, so that it is close to the front door.
- Linen closet: A tall, narrow closet, typically located in or near bathrooms and/or bedrooms. Such a closet contains shelves used to hold towels, washcloths, sheets, and toiletries.
- Spear closet: An architectural slang term for a small, oddly shaped, "left over" space, whether actually used as a closet or not.
- Utility closet: A closet used for permanently housing appliances, most commonly the heating/cooling unit and water heater, especially in apartments where they cannot be put in a garage, attic, or basement.
- Walk-in closet (often shortened to "walk-in") :A closet large enough to walk inside to store clothes or other objects, on two or three sides. They may have lighting, mirrors, and flooring distinct from adjacent rooms.
- Wall closet: A very shallow closet closed off from a room by a curtain or folding doors, with only enough depth to hang clothes or store them folded on shelves.
- A water closet (abbreviated "WC") is not a storage closet but a small dedicated room containing a flush toilet. The euphemistic term comes from the British English definition of a closet as a small private room. In this case, it was a small private room with running water.
- Wardrobe: A type of furniture for storing clothes.
It is worth noting that the phrase walk-in closet is not used in the UK and some commonwealth counties, where the phrase walk-in-wardrobe, or walk-in-robe, is used instead.
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