Wall closet in a residential house in the U.S.

It is common for a mirror to be placed on the inside of a closet door.

A closet (especially in North American usage) is a small and enclosed space, a cabinet, or a cupboard in a house or building used for general storage or hanging clothes. A closet for food storage is usually referred to as a pantry. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1822x2500, 1558 KB) Summary Wall closet in a residential house. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1822x2500, 1558 KB) Summary Wall closet in a residential house. ... For other uses, see United States (disambiguation) and US (disambiguation). ... A closet. ... A closet. ... A mirror, reflecting a vase. ... North American English is a collective term used for the varieties of the English language that are spoken in the United States and Canada. ... A cabinet is a body of high-ranking members of government, typically representing the executive branch. ... A cupboard is a type of cabinet, often made of wood, used indoors to store household objects such as food and crockery. ... A house in Pathanapuram, Kerala (India) A house, a structure used for habitation by people, generally has walls and a roof to shelter its enclosed space from precipitation, wind, heat, and cold. ... For other uses, see Building (disambiguation). ... A pantry is a room in a domestic house used for food storage. ...

Closets can be built into the walls of the house during construction so that they take up no space in the room, or they can be a large, free-standing piece of furniture designed for clothes storage, in which case they are often called a wardrobe or armoire. Closets are often built under stairs, thereby using awkward space that would otherwise go unused. In current British usage, a "wardrobe" can also be built-in, and the word "cupboard" can be used to refer to a closet. In Elizabethan and Middle English, closet referred to a larger room in which a person could sit and read in private. Look up furniture in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... (See also List of types of clothing) Introduction Humans often wear articles of clothing (also known as dress, garments or attire) on the body (for the alternative, see nudity). ... Look up Wardrobe in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... A cupboard is a type of cabinet, often made of wood, used indoors to store household objects such as food and crockery. ... The Elizabethan Era is the period associated with the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558 - 1603) and is often considered to be a golden age in English history. ... Middle English is the name given by historical linguistics to the diverse forms of the English language spoken between the Norman invasion of 1066 and the mid-to-late 15th century, when the Chancery Standard, a form of London-based English, began to become widespread, a process aided by the...

In North America, chests, trunks and wall-mounted pegs typically provided storage prior to World War II. Built-in wall closets were uncommon and where they did exist, they tended to be small and shallow. Following World War II, however, deeper, more generously sized closets were introduced to new housing designs, which proved to be very attractive to buyers. It has even been suggested that the closet was a major factor in peoples' migration to the suburbs. Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000...

Closet tax

Prior to the American Revolution, the British crown counted closets as rooms, which figured into taxes paid by colonists in North America.^[1] As a result, closets were rarely built in houses in Colonial America.^[1] The "closet tax" was abolished following the American Revolution.^[1] John Trumbulls Declaration of Independence, showing the five-man committee in charge of drafting the Declaration in 1776 as it presents its work to the Second Continental Congress The American Revolution refers to the period during the last half of the 18th century in which the Thirteen Colonies that... A tax is a financial charge or other levy imposed on an individual or a legal entity by a state or a functional equivalent of a state (for example, tribes, secessionist movements or revolutionary movements). ... Colonial America refers to the area now known as the eastern United States and parts of Canada from the time of European settlement to the time of the American Revolution. ...

The closet in pop culture

Figuratively, a closet is a place where one hides things; "having skeletons in one's closet" is a figure of speech for having particularly sensitive secrets. Thus, closet as an adjective means secret—usually with a connotation of vice or shame, as in "a closet alcoholic" or "a closet homosexual," though sometimes used as a humorous exaggeration for any potential embarrassment, as in "a closet comic book fan." To "come out of the closet" is to admit your secrets publicly, but this is now used almost exclusively in reference to homosexuality. The documentary The Celluloid Closet uses this reference to gay people in its examination of how Hollywood films have depicted homosexuals on the screen. This is also extensively used in a controversial episode of South Park. A figure of speech, sometimes termed a [[rhetoral], or elocution, is a word or phrase that departs from straightforward, literal language. ... Secrecy is the practice of hiding information from others. ... Vice is the opposite of virtue. ... It has been suggested that the section Shame campaign from the article Smear campaign be merged into this article or section. ... King Alcohol and his Prime Minister circa 1820 Alcoholism is the consumption of or preoccupation with alcoholic beverages to the extent that this behavior interferes with the alcoholics normal personal, family, social, or work life. ... Since its coinage, the word homosexuality has acquired multiple meanings. ... A comic book is a magazine or book containing the art form of comics. ... Come Out was composed by Steve Reiche in 1966. ... The expression being in the closet has been used to describe keeping secret ones sexual behavior or orientation, most commonly homosexuality or bisexuality, but also including transgender and transsexual people, paedophiles, and pederasts. ... The Celluloid Closet is the title of a 1995 documentary film directed and written by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman. ... GAY can mean: Gay, a term referring to homosexual men or women The IATA code for Gaya Airport Category: ... ... Trapped in the Closet is episode 912 (#137) of the Comedy Central series South Park. ...

Psychologically, bedroom closets are the center of many childhood fears. Children fear during the night that a monster or any other paranormal creature hides inside the closet, and is destined to frighten the child. This is a common theme in films. In the first of the Poltergeist movies, the closet was the area of the family house the ghosts hid in to kidnap the child. And the "monster in the closet" fear was developed for comedic possibilities in film Monsters, Inc., in which monsters teleport into children's closets at night from a central location in order to scare them as a means of collecting screams, which run the monster economy. In the newspaper comic, Bloom County, the character Binkley had an "anxiety closet" in his bedroom, from which his fears would manifest themselves, while he was sleeping. For example, a librarian wielding a battle-axe, which then struck the headboard of his bed, attacked due to an overdue library book. Similarly, Opus the penguin from the Sunday strip Opus also has a closet which houses his worries. Fear can be conveyed in many ways. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The Poltergeist movies are a trilogy of horror films produced in the 1980s. ... This article is about the paranormal. ... Monsters, Inc. ... Bloom County was a popular American comic strip by Berke Breathed which ran from December 8, 1980 until August 6, 1989. ... Look up Opus in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

Types of closets

• Broom closet: A narrow floor-to-ceiling space for the storage of lengthy items. To come out of the Broom closet = To admit to being a witch
• 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.
• 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.
• Walk-in closet: A closet large enough to walk inside to store clothes on two or three sides. They may have lighting, mirrors, and flooring distinct from adjacent rooms.
• California closet: A closet with interior storage systems built by California Closet company. Often containing a multitude of shelves, racks, shoe compartments, and hanging rails. Competitors build similar systems and they are not known as California closets.
• 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.
• A water closet (WC) is not a storage closet but a flush toilet

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References

1. ^ ^{a b c} Old Stone House. National Park Service.