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The first storage walls emerged when designers of the more compact houses placed closets side-by-side, usually facing in opposite directions to serve more than one room. This created consolidated storage zones between spaces that could hold the growing and varied collection of goods found in most twentieth-century middle-class houses. By placing closets together in banks, more regularly sized storage compartments resulted. This was particularly important in the mid-twentieth century when the popularity of long-play records and record players, games, cards, folding tables and chairs, and awkward sporting equipment such as golf clubs, fishing tackle, and badminton and tennis rackets challenged the capacity of conventional closets.
Occupants of older houses not using the storage wall approach soon found that they could convert unused spaces to storage walls by building new closets. Furniture manufacturers also contributed to the use of storage walls by producing modular free-standing storage units that could be placed against walls to enhance a dwelling's capacity.
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