ANTONI POROWSKI

TV PERSONALITY, NEW YORK CITY

So many appliances, so little space. The kitchen in Antoni Porowski’s new Greenwich Village home is generous. But Antoni, the food and wine expert on Netflix’s Queer Eye series and the host and executive producer of Netflix’s newest cooking competition series, Easy-Bake Battle, cheerfully admits to “borderline hoarding” of kitchen tools and appliances, all of which needed a place to live.

The apartment had another shortcoming: There was only one modest closet in the primary bedroom—not nearly big enough to hold all of Antoni’s clothes.

The ingenious solution? Creating a closet that runs the length of the hallway between the kitchen and primary bedroom, giving the closet two different functions. On the right, just outside the kitchen and within easy grabbing distance, the storage space serves as a pantry, with shelving designed to fit everyday items as well as things “I wanted on hand but don’t use as much.”

Just as the pantry side of the long closet feels like an extension of the kitchen, the other side feels like an extension of the bedroom.

“I love that it’s seamlessly divided,” Antoni says. On this side, he keeps the clothes he can’t fit into the bedroom closet.

The design helped Antoni maximize the limited square footage in the bedroom closet, adding floor-to-ceiling shelving and two tiers of hanging rods. LED strips embedded in the rods illuminate each shirt and pair of pants. Another cool feature: three sliding trays that hold his sunglasses collection. “I can’t tell you how many pairs I’ve ruined because the lenses would get all scratched up, or how much time it took looking into each sunglasses case when I was looking for a specific pair,” he says.

So how are those trays working out?

“I’m obsessed.” —J.A.

Ryan Serhant isn’t kidding when he says that he planned the second floor of his Brooklyn townhouse around the closet for the primary suite. The brownstone, which he and wife, Emilia Bechrakis, renovated top to bottom before they moved in last year, has six stories, “so we had room for a killer closet,” says the luxury-home real estate agent and star of Bravo’s Sell it Like Serhant.

The couple turned the entire second floor into the primary suite (daughter Zena,