Primarily this is an outdoor heavy duty 5 line retractable washing line however it would be equally at home if installed in a garage or utility room to give an indoor drying optionif you only have a small amount of washing to dry simply pull out and hook just one of the lines to the metal wall plate which is also supplied in the kit if you need more space just pull out another line in its normal configuration all the lines can be pulled out in parallel and hooked onto the metal fixing