My flat has the shape of a big rectangle, and all the corridor is lined with built-in closets. It's one of its major positive aspects.

In my experience, many flats have 1-3 built-in closets, but not always in a bedroom.

And I think that what allows the walk-in closets in American houses is linked to the size of the houses: American houses globally are bigger in size than Swiss ones, simply because here we have less space available.

I thought Americans had walk-in closets so they could all come out of them?

lol... not ours! We live in a 3BR house that is only 5 yrs old and had to bring all of our lovely "schranks" from CH.

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The rooms where you do see built in closets are the ones in the roof where the roof slopes because wardrobes for rooms with a sloping roof are not standard at all.

Nope not here in any case (as said above the huge cupboards are set into the very thick walls- as often as weight bearing will allow). Brilliant.

Not here either!