The bedroom is at the end of a hallway with a 3-foot-wide door that swings into the room. When my husband and I open it, we often hit the closet door because we tend to leave it open.

In a compact bedroom in a Houston apartment, Ms. Spanos combined two inadequate closets to create a single storage space running across the wall, concealing it with sliding antique Chinese screens ...

Many paper towel racks are already designed to hang from the wall or from a spot under the bottom of the cupboard. In your closet, this translates as a paper towel rack that's hung from the bottom ...