This ikea pax hack brings two units together adds doors with fun door pulls trim and paint to blend into the wall and create that custom illusion.
How to hack ikea pax sliding door.
I had no space for anything but pax 75 cm.
Changing colors or doors themselves.
Installing ikea pax doors as sliding closet doors ikea hack by melissa march 5 2015 november 16 2018.
Helsingo make designer doors for ikea furniture like the pax wardrobes and these simple yet beautiful doors fit perfectly into this high end scheme.
Not sure if even 2 people ikea minimum requirement could do this without the strap.
Assembling the pax sliding doors.
Fitting the mirrors into the door metalwork was not going well until i used a ratchet cargo strap to squeeze the bits together both ways x y so that the screw holes lined up.
I think the pax hinged doors work out to be less expensive than the sliding doors or at least they have more choices of styles at the lower end of the price range.
Paint the doors with the color that you like and that fits your interior.
Sliding doors come only in pairs and i wanted to put a door only to 1 frame of 75 cm.
I needed a hinged door frame because 1.
I m squeezing my brain with no luck to try to create a wardrobe using a 2 metres wide ikea pax wardrobe with sliding doors and adding to one side a 50cms pax unit with hinged door.
This stunningly elegant ikea pax hack from helsingo seamlessly blends into the background which is an excellent piece of design work.
At its most basic ikea s pax system is simply a line of rectangular cabinets.
Written by melissa march 5 2015 november 16 2018.
Use ikea pax door as a slider closet door diy hack when i saw ikea pax closet doors for the first time i thought that they can be used on other projects aside from having it with ikea cabinets.
The first is an easy hack.
Sliding doors are much more expensive and 3.
1 hinged doors don t match any sliding door those with aluminium frame.
Then we also hung just the frames for the pax closet doors.
One hack i ve seen is to use the ikea sliding door frames and hardware but make your own panels e g.
Then we installed the top track on the new closet framing overhang.
It can be hanged in our closet to replace the old existing sliding doors.
With these 28 hack ideas for the ikea pax system i don t think there are any homes that can t use at least one of them.
Out of fabric covered cardboard.
But when you look at all the add ons from doors that range from glass to mirrored to shaker style as well as interior options like drawers and bins the pax can become anything your heart desires whether it s the bones of a tricked out walk in closet a media system or covert storage.
The most popular ikea pax hack is repainting the doors or changing them completely.
Installing the ikea pax doors as sliding closet doors.
Wardrobe frames are intended only for sliding doors and there are no hinge doors available for them.