¿Qué es 'trastero de casa'?

Question

Aquí está la frase: 'Quien desee visitarlo sin meter la pata debe dejar la mentalidad occidental en el trastero de casa.'

¿Significa 'closet'?

¡Gracias!

Answer 1

parece que sí, el lugar donde guardas todos los ´ trastes´ que usas poco.

More to the point than my explanation. - 0074b507, Dec 13, 2010

Answer 2

We had a previous thread a while back on what a lumber-room is (one definition for trastero) in case it turns out that is what is being alluded to.

The large houses of the well-heeled of Britain commonly had much very old, well-built furniture in them, more than was to be used in every room at any given time. Every piece was made-to-order. When not needed, it was neither sold nor discarded by them. At least one out-of-the-way room was selected to store the pieces that weren't in use. This was called the lumber room.

Storage room. That may be the nuance of closet in this context.

Lumber can also mean "wood" so that may explain why the wooden furniture was stored in a "lumber room" - ian-hill, Dec 13, 2010