America's biggest closet hits market, along with its attached mansion
Theresa Roemer's Texas closet has been dubbed the biggest in America.
It's not the sort of superlative that's documented, but here's what we know from Roemer:
• The closet is three stories tall, with a sinuous floating staircase stretching up and a Swarovski crystal chandelier dripping down.
• It's 3,000 square feet.
• It took a year to build.
• It's equipped with a "champagne bar" as well as hair and makeup stations.
• It cost half a million dollars (not including the contents).
So if it isn't the biggest closet in America, we definitely want to hear about its usurpers.
Now the closet is on the market, along with the mansion that's attached to it, for $12.9 million. Click here or on a photo for a slideshow.
Roemer's home in the Woodlands, a master-planned community in the Houston area, became world-famous over the summer when luxury department store Neiman Marcus profiled her closet on the store's blog, and then national news outlets covered it.
(One viewer was more than just curious -- using the information to break into her house and ransack the closet, making off with a reported $1 million in goods. News reports, including surveillance footage, ricocheted around the world. The story turned downright bizarre after that; see our slideshow captions for the details. The thief remains at large.)
Roemer is an entrepreneur who started out by opening a health club, then branched out into other lifestyle-related ventures including fitness and fashion.
But it's her charity work that, oddly enough, inspired her mega-closet. She told "Good Morning America" that when she held fundraisers at her house, her female guests would always clamor to see her elaborate closet -- so she thought, "Why not have a closet so big that I can have fundraisers in the closet?"
"I just have always had this fascination of beautiful closets," she told "GMA." "Because to me, my closet is my retreat, you know? I mean, men can have their man caves. I like to look at mine as like a she-cave."
She's not too sorry to be leaving behind her giant closet, though. A spokesperson told our friends at Curbed that she'd always intended to flip the mansion -- bought in 2013 for $2.5 million, according to Zillow records.
Roemer plans to build a closet twice as big in her new place, the flack told Curbed: "You can never have a big-enough closet."
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