Children's wardrobes

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Hi, does anyone have any particular children's wardrobes that they'd recommend? Child is 4. Will probably go for a standard cheap IKEA thing but wondered if there's anything I should be thinking about in particular when purchasing? Thank you

I don’t think you can go wrong with Pax (well actually you can! ensure you hammer on the back piece to stabilise it before you stand it up or the bally thing will crash, collapse and splinter before your very eyes!! 😳)

They hold loads and it can grow with the child.

children's bed centres
We got this for DS when he was 3, over 10 years ago- really sturdy, really flexible - we've just taken the lower handing rail out to accommodate longer school shirts (he's 14 now). The men that delivered it built it for us too. We've had beds and bedside tables from them too.

You don't say whether you have a boy or a girl, but I find they need very different hanging needs. My son needs far more drawers than my daughter. What I did when he was about 4 was buy some trofast, and then put a kitchen door handle on the bottom of one of the shelf things. That gave him enough hanging space for the few shirts he had, and lots of adaptable drawers/shelves for everything else. It can move up the slots as he grows and the shirts get longer. The Ikea children's hangers work well with this, but I think you could get adult ones in at a push.

I've since put pressure hanging rails in my daughter's trofast for some extra space, and that's worked well too, although I'd probably go for the wood trofasts as they seem more solid.

IKEA pax.
DS had 1m width. He has drawers, shelves and 2 lots of short hanging space.
DD has 2m width with all sorts of hanging spaces, long and short, drawers, shelves, things to put shoes in, jewellery on and an attachment on the side eg to hang her school uniform on so it airs out and lighting.

I wouldn’t say they were cheap as I did pay someone to put them together for me and attach to the wall.

We got both of my DD wardrobes 2nd hand from Facebook/eBay. One has drawers under, one a shelf at the top. I’d say the latter more useful particularly as we have other drawers in the room. They aren’t very big but they have heart/butterfly cutouts/handles that they absolutely love and for less than £50 for both I don’t mind they won’t last forever.

My son is 8 and has this one, good amount of storage