You don’t have to just use a portable closet for the same reasons that everyone else does! Here we’ll take a look at 5 creatives uses for portable closets outside of what most people think of using them for.

1. Add A Portable Closet to the Dorm Room.
The student in your life will appreciate this. A portable closet can provide some desperately needed space for someone living in a cramped dorm room, sharing a closet with someone else. The dorm room portable closet is a no brainer! Added benefit: a keg can easily be placed on top of the portable closet for easy access and serving. (Kidding!)

2. Use a Portable Closet in the Vacation Home.
A couple I know bought a small mountain cabin outside of Boone, North Carolina. The place was fantastic and they love it, but one problem that quickly became evident was the lack of closet space and storage space in general throughout the cabin. The couple ended up purchasing not just one but two types of stand alone portable closets – one, a small portable wooden closet for the main living room for holding books and DVD’s, and the other, a portable closet system for the bedroom for clothes.

3. Use a Portable Closet for Pool.
If you’ve got a pool you must address the issue of storing towels for visitors and guests coming over to hit up the waters. A good solid, metal framed portable closet works great in this regard, being resistant to reasonable outdoor weather conditions and allowing you to easily store both the clean towels and designate a section for throwing used towels to get washed later.

4. Using a Portable Closet for The Hot Tub Room.
Same thing goes for having a hot tub. Everyone wants to visit and everyone needs a towel. Installing a portable closet rack in the room for towel storage makes it easy to keep towels on hand for the hot tub.

5. Use a Metal Portable Closet for Storing Work Equipment.
This example relates specifically to storing tools that need a sturdy home. A metal portable closet can hold tools easily in this regard. Now, something like this is going to get heavy if you put heavy tools in it, but if you get a metal portable closet with wheels you not only solved the problem of where to store the tools but also just made it very easy to transport them.

6. Use it as a Portable Kitchen Closet
Some kitchens just do not come equipped with the proper storage space for holding what you need in a modern day kitchen. A small portable closet can easily become a portable kitchen closet – all you have to do to is buy it and place it in the kitchen.

If you’ve got a portable closet that you’re using in a creative way such as these, let us know by adding a comment with your story!

In looking at all the different options related to closet storage, one comes across many similar terms used to describe both similar and dissimilar items. One area of confusion comes across in the terms describing a portable closet, like the kind discussed on this site, and then what’s formally known as an armoire, or wardrobe closet.

A wardrobe closet is made as very nice, solid items, just as much a piece of furniture with aesthic appeal as they are an item with utiliarian purpose i.e. storing clothes! This is in obvious contrast to the portable closets discussed at Portable Closet Guide, which are light weight, mobile items, and certainly not a big piece of wooden furniture like most antiques armoire furniture can rightly be described as.

So what does it mean when an item for sale is described as “portable wardrobe closet“? Usually, it’s much more of a portable closet than a wardrobe closet. The differentiation can be seen starting with the materials it’s made out of. If it’s solid wood, it gets a few points on the armoire scorecard, but if it’s anything else, it’s more likely to fall in the portable closet family. I think the real kicker though is to look for what makes – it doesn’t make it – actually portable. A solid wood closet described as portable wardrobe closet isn’t very portable if it’s got no wheels, no handles, and weighs 40 or 50 pounds, even if it does stand just about 3 feet high. But that’s probably as close as we can get to a middle ground between the two, and for some people, that’s just the item they were looking for.

This really gets into what it is people need the closet for. If the function needs to be something more useful – i.e. it holds clothes but doesn’t look pretty, or at least, jaw dropping – than a portable closet is a better solution. If the function is to have a solid wooden closet that looks great and holds clothes, a wardrobe closet is the solution.