Wardrobe Closets

A good wardrobe closet is a good investment for a home. They make a fantastic looking piece of furniture while providing additional space in which to securly store your wardrobe, often providing protection against dust, dirt, and allergens in the environment.

Let’s take a look at the different features and benefits offered in various wardrobe closet designs.

They give you ample space to store and organize your wardrobe. First and foremost, the biggest benefit of a wardrobe closet is its sole purpose; to provide you with additional space to correctly organize and access your wardrobe. They can be used to compliment a room with an existing closet or used as a guest closet in a spare bedroom, in such a way that your guests need not to bother any items that might already have found their way into the guest closet.

They’re designed as a solid piece of furniture. This is what sets wardrobe closets a part from other closet-type furniture, such as a stand-alone closet organizer or a portable closet. A good wardrobe closet is a solid piece of furniture, weighing 100 or more pounds, sometimes considerably more than this, on there own without any clothes or items inside. They are made of solid materials and are designed to look good. This is not something you’d sheepishly hide in your room. They’re an impressive site for a means to store clothes and they will look great in any guest bed room that is short on

They offer a degree of protection from allergens in the environment. While not making any claims as medical advice, many wardrobe closets are designed to be breathable while at the same time offering protection for your wardrobe against dirt, grime, pet dander, and other allergen that are free-floating in the environment.

They can be expensive. A wardrobe closet is not a flimsy shelving unit or a simple closet organizer for hanging your clothes. Often designed for the long-term, with solid wood and lots of support for the hanging weight of your clothes, wardrobe closets often get into the many hundreds of dollars range. If this puts them out of your reach, there are alternatives which are less (often much less) expensive that also provide the same benefits, i.e. space for your closet items. See The Closet Organizers Guide for more information on re-doing an existing closet to make use of the space.

It’s an entirely common situation for many people to find themselves in:  the closet is brand spankin’ full. There’s simply no more room to squeeze anything in. And it’s not for lack of trying, it’s just that you’ve reached the limits that physics will allow; there is only so  much space, and there is more than enough to fill that space.

This describes many peoples situation with their clothes and other closet items and there closet. They’ve simply run out of room. What is there to do?

Purchasing and installing a good closet organizer is probably the best thing to do, short of throwing away half your clothes. (Even better- do both.) But if this solution is just not for you, then a solution that IS for you would be to purchase a nice stand alone wardrobe closet.

What exactly IS a wardrobe closet?

It’s actually quite similar to a portable closet in that it’s an item that mirrors the reasons for having a closet; i.e. it provides a space to hang your clothes.  However, most portable closets are not made of solid wood and most are not really designed to emulate a nice piece of furniture. (If they did, they wouldn’t be so portable after all.) So where the portable closet  ends is where the wardrobe closet begins in a sense, becoming a real piece of heavyweight furniture and something that compliments a room.

A good wardrobe closet is a good-looking wardrobe closet. Many are made of elegant finishes and solid wood. They come with drawers and covers and don’t show your clothes off to the room. Imagine a large chest of drawers but with the top part more like a vertical shelving unit, one tall enough to hang shirts, pants, suits, and dresses, and deep enough to accommodate the shoulder width size of clothing. Unlike portable closets, you’ll rarely find anything like a shoe rack or a laundry bin in a wardrobe closet -why? Because a wardrobe closet is simply too nice looking for something like that. It’s not really the proper spot to hang a pair of Vans Men’s Shoes. (Note that some do have shoe racks hidden on the inside, but you wouldn’t want a shoe rack covering the outside of a $500 wardrobe closet.)

The price range for wardrobe closet is something to consider – you will be making a real purchaser with your dollars, not just buying a few shelves but rather, buying a real solid piece of furniture that should last decades. The price reflects this, and many wardrobe closets cost upwards of $500 US.