Easy Hack to Build-In an IKEA Pax Wardrobe

I like IKEA hack. After I wanted a closet/wardrobe in a room in our residence that had no closet (it was once a porch that they transformed right into a room), I considered attempting to customized construct some shelving.

However, then I remembered that ordering a reasonable Pax wardrobe and constructing it into the wall could be the quickest, best, and greatest wanting answer to my closet storage drawback.

If you happen to’re asking, “How do you make IKEA Pax wardrobes look in-built?” it’s truly fairly easy and I used to be shocked how briskly the method went. I’ll present you what I did!

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Provides:
–IKEA Pax wardrobes (I did this double set and added plain doorways)
–2 1/2″ or 3″ building screws
-drill
–miter noticed or hand noticed with a miter field
-2x4s or 2x2s for base
–ending nail gun or small end nails, a hammer, and a nail setter
-baseboard to match your present baseboard
–wooden filler and caulk
-paint in your present baseboard shade and/or IKEA Pax Wardrobe shade

The first step: Take away the baseboard. You’ll wish to first take away the baseboard on the wall that you’re inserting your shelving in order that it might sit completely flush towards the wall. Simply use a field cutter/razor to chop the bead of caulk between the highest of the baseboard and the wall to disconnect that connection level.

Then, use a crowbar to softly pry the baseboard off the wall (pull it slightly bit each foot or so to try to hold all of it coming off at about the identical tempo to keep away from breaking it).

If you wish to solely take away the quantity wanted relatively than the entire baseboard, you need to use a multi-tool like this and mark how a lot board you need eliminated based mostly in your closet width and size measurements.

Then reduce a line down the board so you possibly can merely pull off the piece you need eliminated (you possibly can see I did that on the again proper nook of my picture).

Step two: Construct your easy rectangle platform. You realize what a rectangle seems like? Good. All it’s a must to do now’s construct a base with both 2x4s or 2x2s that’s the identical measurement as your cupboard dimensions.

So let’s say for simplicity’s sake your whole closet measures 24″ large and 80″ lengthy, you’d construct a base 24″ large and 80″ lengthy so it matches completely underneath your closet.

I used a miter noticed for this, however you can even use a hand noticed with a miter field to chop your boards to the fitting lengths.

You’ll see I additionally reduce some center help boards which are the identical size as my finish items so the center of the closet had one thing to relaxation on as effectively. Simply screw your boards in place from the skin edges and your platform is able to go.

Optionally available be aware: As you possibly can see, the fitting facet of my cupboard is true towards the wall, so I did add a 3″ spacer trim board to that facet to make it simpler to open that door with out feeling tremendous tight (I’ll present you the way).

You gained’t want to do this in case you are in a free-standing space, however chances are you’ll contemplate it if one facet is towards the wall like mine and also you wish to transfer it out a bit.

It’s one additional step, and you might want to add that into your whole width measurements, but it surely helped so much since I had a wall and a window in that nook.

Step three: Connect platform to wall. Use some all-purpose screws to connect the again fringe of your base to the wall each 12″ or so. If you happen to had flooring you didn’t care about, you could possibly additionally drill down into the entrance edge to safe that to the ground.

However there’s actually sufficient weight on the platform as soon as full to not likely want to do this step.

Step 4: Add your wardrobes on high (one after the other). Place your closet sections one after the other on the platform, ensuring it’s cosy towards the wall.

The IKEA directions present you easy methods to join the sections to one another after which easy methods to join them to the wall, so simply observe their directions to put in.

Step 5: Add your trim. Now that your items are sitting on the platform and linked to the wall, you possibly can go forward and add your baseboard again on. For greatest outcomes, use a miter noticed to chop your baseboard to suit all the best way as much as after which round your closet (I reduce a forty five° angle on the corners for a clear look).

Or you need to use your hand noticed and a miter field in case you don’t have an influence noticed. I reduce the wall items first to suit after which measured for the items across the closet.

Connect with both a ending nail gun (I’ve this battery one and I find it irresistible) or small end nails and a hammer and use a nail setter to verify the pinnacle of the nails go in previous the face of the wooden.

I additionally added a small piece of cupboard trim to the vertical facet hole between the wall and the cupboard (it was truly leftover from my kitchen renovation), however you possibly can order one thing related from the cupboard division of a house enchancment retailer.

Or simply browse their trim aisle and see in case you like something over there. I simply reduce it to the peak of the cupboard and hooked up it with a end nailer.

Step six: Caulk/paint your trim and also you’re completed! Fill any nail holes with a small quantity of wooden filler (simply wipe with a humid fabric to easy, simpler than sanding) and caulk between the baseboard and the wall or closet to make them look seamless.

When the filler and caulk is dry, paint your baseboards to match both the cupboard or the baseboards in the remainder of the room for those towards the wall solely, and your new closet system is able to use!

I used Melting Icicles by Behr to match IKEA Pax white and it’s an amazing shade match in case you are attempting to match the inventory wardrobe.

Optionally available facet trim/spacer step: If you happen to do resolve so as to add some size to at least one facet (or each) to get a wardrobe door farther from a wall (or to middle the entire thing right into a recessed space however you may have a niche on either side), add your closets to the platform first.

As soon as they’re hooked up, scribe the curves of the wall onto a board. Partitions are by no means completely straight, or in my case, even slightly straight, so that you wish to hint the precise curve of the wall onto the board.

If you happen to haven’t scribed an uneven wall or flooring onto a board, this can be a good video that reveals you easy methods to scribe usually and this one reveals easy methods to do it when filling in a cupboard hole like I did. I reduce my board to the fitting peak first after which scribed the curves and used a reasonable jig noticed to chop the traces.

Then, I gently tapped my board into the area with a hammer/mallet (being actually cautious to not push it again too far in order that it lined up flush with the wardrobe entrance) and hooked up the spacer to the wardrobe with a end nailer from contained in the wardrobe the place it’s barely noticeable in any respect.

Caulk and paint the spacer and the realm will completely disappear into the built-in.

How nice does that look?! I did additionally add some customized trim to the doorways to make them really feel extra Parisian and particular.

I’ll present you the way to do this in one other publish, but it surely’s fairly much like how I added DIY Arched Door Trim (with Versatile Molding!) to the doorways in my home.

If you happen to’ve all the time wished some built-in closet or wardrobe storage, this can be a nice approach to do it your self and you’ll customise it to the dimensions that you simply want by shopping for roughly Pax wardrobe items.

This solved an enormous drawback for me in an inexpensive method and I like the best way that it seems within the room. Hope this helps in case you’re pondering of doing the identical! xo. Laura

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