DM, thanks for the input!!! Your suggestions are excellent-o and muchly appreciated!

I love the corner shelving unit, but placing one in the corner will interfere with opening the closet door. Anyway, what I decided to do was reorganize the said closet and throw out as much as I possibly could. It took a whole day to do and a lot of motivation, but I managed to make enough space in there to put a mini-shelving unit, on which the fax machine now sits. Since I don't have an electrical outlet INSIDE the closet, the problem now is the grotesque electrical cord and telephone line that lead into the closet. Currently, the wires are bound together in a plastic tube. Still ugly, but not uglier than a fax machine. I'm happy (for the moment).