What Is The Difference Between A Closet And A Cupboard

[xstitcher]

I have Googled this question but not come up with any satisfactory explanation but I am sure I will get the answer I want here.

I have just been cleaning out the above mentioned this week. They are used for things that really don't have a home but not clothes, food, crockery or kitchen realated things, just the overflow of stuff.

[Zacs-Master]

If your gay, you can't come out of a cupboard.

[ummmm]

lol @ Zacs...

I think they are just different words for the same thing.

[wendilla]

When I lived with my parents the closet was where we used to hang our coats and keep our shoes there. I think people have different definitions of it now. What I call a cupboard is anything with shelves. .

[murraymints]

Is a closet something you can walk into and a cupboard fixed shelves behind a door ?

[xstitcher]

That's right Zaks but a straight person who had been put on the shelf could.

[Zacs-Master]

The term cupboard was originally used to describe an open-shelved side table for displaying plates, cups and saucers. These open cupboards typically had between one and three display tiers, and at the time, a drawer or multiple drawers fitted to them. The word cupboard gradually came to mean a closed piece of furniture.

A closet, through French from Latin clausum, "closed" began life in the 17th century as a small private room, often behind a bedroom, to which a man or woman could retire, for privacy, reading, or enjoyment of personal works of art: for this usage, see Cabinet (room).
Modern closets can be built into the walls of the house during construction so that they take up no apparent space in the bedroom, or they can be a large, free-standing piece of furniture designed for clothing 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.

[xstitcher]

The more I think about it the more I think these two words have the same meaning now.

[beejay1124]

yup Zacs--when i was a wean we had a closet ( aka cubbyhole) under the stairs -coats were hung up in it and shoes n wellies were kept in it

[ummmm]

We have one of those, Beej, we call it the understairs cupboard :-)

[beejay1124]

v nice ummm-- in rural Norn Iron theyre still called closets--some folks here called it 'the glory hole' - no idea why----------any others on here came across a ''glory hole'.......................keep the replies clean plz :-)

[ummmm]

Lol..

What do call a dresser/press? I call it a dresser but my OH calls it the press.

[Sqad]

A closet is a toilet.

A cupboard isn't............usually.......

[beejay1124]

hi squad- been on a few weekend jollies when the wardrobe became a toilet
ummmm a dresser is a dresser-dont have one tho-

[xstitcher]

Once some Norwegian tourists asked me to direct them to the nearest water closet. I hadn't a clue what they were talking about but was made to understand they meant loo.

[Zacs-Master]

WC.....water closet.

[xstitcher]

A friend just said.....Closets are to hang things in and cupboards have shelves....what do you all say about that???

[daisya]

We always call our small built in cupboards (with doors) closets...don't know why but were brought up to do that I guess. I don't know the difference and never thought to ask lol.

""If your gay, you can't come out of a cupboard. "" Lol Zac, you're right though it just wouldn't be the same lol.

[Yorky Lass]

I've always thought a cupboard to be narrow with shelves and a closet big enough to walk in to.

[daisya]

Yorky Lass I think you're right, our walk-in's are closets or always known as such here.

[jno]

a closet's the same as a wardrobe for me, but cupboards have shelves (the boards to put the cups on, really).