Portable Closet Guide

A portable closet offers just about everything a physical closet would offer – racks for hanging clothes, shelves for folded sweaters, hanging shoe racks to place dozens of pairs of shoes, and even a laundry shoot for your dirty clothes. Except in its portable design, the closet is often on wheels and failing that, is ultra portable being very small and/or with easy braces to grab hold of and move. Priced anywhere from $30 to hundreds though, portable closets are gaining exposure for other purposes.

Portable closets offer all sorts of benefit not just for someone who needs a portable or transient space to place their clothes, but just for anyone who needs some space to organize their stuff. (And who doesn’t need that!)  Much as closets have become a spot to store much, much more than just your clothes, items sold as portable closets can be repurposed for your own needs. Here are some creative ideas we’ve seen people use their portable closet space for:

Merchandise Storage – This is something we’ve seen personally used by small record labels and bands who need an easy way to store not their guitars or instruments but instead all the bands hoodies, shirts and records of their label, but in such a way that makes all these items easily organized, accessible, and also, easy to put back into storage. The fact that portable closets are designs to be – well, portable! – is what makes this such a good use of the item. Nice.

Drama Stage Props and Character Clothes Storage – Definitely one of the best uses of a portable closet outside of the home is use by drama studios to store character outfits and accessories. This is when portability truly plays a big role as you can easily wheel outfits in and out of studios, dressing rooms, back stage, and so on, to wherever they need be.

Kitchen Stuff – You can hang a chefs cloth in the rack and store all sorts of utensils inside the built in shelving and whatnot. This repurposing works better with metal framed closets as you wouldn’t want cloth materials that some portable closets are made from to be around food, oil, or otherwise out and about in the kitchen. You can also store dishes, etc on the shelving units for easy access. Covering it all with cloth and sliding it in the corner of the kitchen and you’ve got a portable kitchen gear organizer.

How have you taken a portable closet and used it for your own needs, outside of it just being a closet? Add your own story using the comments section below. We’d be curious to see what our readers have come up with!