an apparatus for raising and lowering a carrier for supporting clothes hangers or other hanging articles within a wardrobe closet that includes a tube , brackets for rotatable mounting of the tube , a tubular motor coupled to the tube for rotating the tube , and a base that attaches to a side panel of the wardrobe closet . two arms each lie on a plane parallel to the base and to the side panel , attach at their ends to the carrier , and are mounted on the base so that they may oscillate and pivot in the plane between two positions , raising and lowering the carrier . at the lowest position the carrier releases from the arms and drop further . fabric straps are wound onto and unwound from the tube to raise and lower the arms as the tube is rotated . a remote control receiver or programmable device may be used to control operation of the motor .