Help for a tiny-too-shallow-coat-closet?

could you either replace with wall hooks or use children's hangers which are smaller. ?

what about finding a stud and then a pipe with flange to the back wall and hang the coats from the back wall out rather than across? Or do a search for a wall mounted clothes rack. You might even have space then for shelves on the side for extra storage for miscellaneous items.

Add two rods...place one high but that you can still reach and the other underneath it. Doubles your space.

Ikea sells a rod from back of cupboard where it is attached ( back wall) to front.

So you choose whatever space you need for shoulder width.

My only fear is hitting myself in head or eye while finding a coat.

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in my grandson's tiny closure my so installed a rail they went from back to front, but pulled out to outside the closet to allow selection of clothing and ease of putting away.

The dimensions of your closet are not conducive to solving your problem. Either relocate the less often worn coats, knock out a wall, buy a house with a larger closet or marry a smaller man. It's a scientific fact that a 2-gallon bucket will not hold 3 gallons of water. Hope this helps....

They used to sell metal kitchen towel bars that you could screw to the back of your kitchen cupboard door. Could you find something similar and screw two of them lengthwise under the shelf above - coats would hang side ways. but would be neater..

Attaching regular coat hooks on the back wall of the closet, then purchase coat hangers that cascade down- I have seen them advertised that will hold approximately 6 items on their hangers that are staggered so you can see and remove what item you desired. This will increase your closest space and provide more room for hanging items.

A large project might be to extend the cupboard by building straight out from it and putting the door in the new side at right angles to its current position. Then you can erect a very long rail from the old to the new. If you found an old wardrobe made of nice wood you could use it for the "wardrobe extension" by growing it onto the existing wardrobe and disguising the original wardrobe, so it would appear as if you had only the wooden wardrobe (and a secret space inside!) Maybe this is a bit too much of a task though.

Otherwise I can only join others and suggest trying to put the rails from front to back. To do this you could put a flat bit of wood approx. 2 ins wide along the top under the shelf in the front of the cupboard, to which you would attach the front -to-back rails. At the back they could be held to the wall by a similar piece of wood. So this could be constructed as one piece before fitting it inside the wardrobe. You might even get three rails in, the middle one being for smaller items. Front to back rails in wardrobes are called "gentleman's rails" because they afford more shoulder room!

There are hooks which hang over doors, and I have seen one which sticks straight out from a door so it can hold several coat hangers, so the back of your door might be able to take some items. A narrow, or shallow, free-standing wardrobe is a problem I have and I have not yet come up with anything else!

We had narrow closets in our last home and we removed the wooden doors and used a curtain on a rod to cover the opening. While it didn't make the closet larger, it did seem to make the closet 'feel' bigger and the clothes weren't squished by the wooden door.

I took out the railI put regular coat hooks on the inside of the top. However, it's such a faff to get stuff out. The padded coathangers are not as big - this might help.

I would cut the dowel bar you hang the coats on to fit depthwise so there is 2 dowels instead of one. Or buy a new one cut into 2 equal lengths to the depth of closet. Get wood for support at studs and put the 3/4 circle (usually plastic or wooden) dowel holders into those wooden reinforcements. Then you have his coats on one side (maybe higher) and yours on the other (maybe lower) and nothing is squished.

also shower curtain bars that are metal and expandable are great for this or as curtain holders as well.

Unfortunately, this is not a coat closet. It's a coats, and jackets and the vacuum cleaner and some other miscellaneous stuff closet. You have issues enough with fitting just coats in here, not to mention the extraneous stuff.

So, first step, PURGE. Find a different home for the appliances, pull everything out of there, demo the rod, leave the shelf (for now) and start with a bare box.

Second, unless you have a family of 10 and all of them are adults there is no way all these jackets are worn constantly. Anything that isn't in season and being worn regularly doesn't need to be hung up. Get a couple of nice baskets, put the out of season stuff in there and stow it on the top shelf.

Third, install a board at hanging height around all 3 sides of the closet and screw large coat hooks to the board. the coats will hang flat against the wall so you can shut the door. If you want to be really efficient you could actually install another board about 15" lower, hang the coats there and hang baskets from the upper hooks to store gloves, scarves, hats, and such. From your photo it looks like there would just barely be enough vertical clearance for that.

In tiny closets like that using every inch of vertical space is the only way to get decent functionality. I know, I've been there, staring at a closet so poorly designed that I could not imagine what the contractor was ever thinking in sticking the thing there to begin with.

This is what I did because I had the same problem.

My daughter bought a house with same problem. off hand, can't think of the name, but I found th

I had California Closets do almost all the closets in my house, and it was worth the money. They can think of things we cannot.

I would stagger wall hooks so you could accommodate the coats/jackets and still use your floor space. In my home we have a linen closet that is literally 10" deep. I can put my wash clothes in there, but towels I'd have to roll, so we put up shelves using pipe. Sometimes storage spaces in homes make no sense!

i had this issue and got a closet pole that hangs on a higher pole. Doubles storage and is adjustable so you still have room for longer coats. Also you could get rid of the shelf and use an organizer that hangs on back of door for scarves, etc.

I have a 17"-deep entryway coat closet with a conventional horizontal wood hanging dowel. I'm 6' 5"tall and my coats are generally 20" wide. My solution: use hangers that swivel at the top (...I see some in your photo...) such that the coats can hang diagonally (...not strictly perpendicular to the dowel...). This configuration can be emphasized/emboldened by cutting properly-spaced diagonal notches on the top of the dowel using swiveling coat hangers or not.

Remove shelf and fit rail. Short Coats on top, long at bottom. Baskets on floor. If too hight to reach use a hook on a pole or fit rack that drops down.

As small as this is just keep the coats you are currently wearing in here. The others can be stored in the owner's bedroom closet.

First, hang the hanger on the rod with nothing in there, does your hanger hot the back wall?

I find that mine do not. Move the rod back...

If it does hit, then get the hangers that are the metal ones that swivel and get the wire shelves and hang them like Mt picture shows... it's supposed to be hung on the front wire not in the middle...

Dealing with Shallow Wardrobes

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Hi Kari: What you can do is hang things on the vertical. Get a metal chain with large links about 2 feet or so long. You can buy them at Home Depot, they cut them to length. Then, put the top link over the hook of one hanger and let the chain hang down. Then, put another hanger in the link about 4 or 5 below that one and hang your whatever on that hanger and keep going down, as far as you like. You will find you have more room to hang things that way. As for the top, make 1 shelf instead of a bin. The bin takes up space and makes things hard to put away.

Hope this helps

Hi Kari, hope these hangers help you out.

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Since you only have to store a handful of coats, I would add hooks.

If tall enough, make double height Clothes rack or form a shelf above the current rail and fix back to front (eitherside) poles to take your clothes, so they will hang straight.