It is well to have somewhere, in the lower part of the house, a deep, light closet, appropriated entirely to tools and things of equal utility, for executing promptly such little repairs
— from Mrs. Hale's Receipts for the Million Containing Four Thousand Five Hundred and Forty-five Receipts, Facts, Directions, etc. in the Useful, Ornamental, and Domestic Arts by Sarah Josepha Buell Hale

It is well to have somewhere, in the lower part of the house, a roomy light closet, appropriated entirely to tools, and things of equal utility, for executing promptly such little repairs as may be required from time to time, without the delay or expense of procuring an artisan.
— from Enquire Within Upon Everything The Great Victorian Domestic Standby by Robert Kemp Philp