Pax wardrobes

[ScotOfTheArctic]

Please tell me about pax wardrobes. I’m moving to a house without fitted wardrobes and have always had them/love the storage they provide.

New house doesn’t have any storage at all 😩, not even an airing cupboard as it has a ground source heat pump.

I need to install wardrobes in three out of four rooms and it looks like I can buy pax with inners and Bergsbo doors for about £2,500. Have read about people getting a carpenter to install them to give a fitted look and would like to do that, imagine that might add a grand. That will give me about 7m length of wardrobes.

What’s the quality like? If they’re fitted well/built in are they a good choice?

Grateful for any feedback from people who’ve done this.

They’re a good choice for the versatility and multiple storage options. DH installed them in our bedroom when he created a walk in wardrobe, so we have the shalllow 35cm open type with no doors. Work really well and sturdy but then ours are screwed together and into the wall. Use the online planner to decide what you want before you go.

We opted for them as a cheaper option to fitted wardrobes. They are fab quality and we were able to design something that worked for us.

They are good value. The worst bit is the levelling feet. They fall out, or if you use them they push the bottom off the plinth.

Level the floor first with hardboard or ply, and fix the carcass to the walls, and each other, then they are as good as more expensive chipboard units.

Thank you, that sounds really promising, I’ll be getting a professional to fit them.

I’ll want to change the carpets next year and have read about removing the skirting board and installing them on a slightly raised base/frame that screws to the floor and then having the carpet/gripper rods installed up to the front of them.

We have them in all bedrooms for many years. It is easy to change the inside fittings when you want to reorganise things and you can upgrade the doors, add mirrors, etc.

Can you explain what you mean by ‘upgrade the doors’ @MadKittenWoman, do you mean doors other than IKEA? If that’s worth doing I could think about doing it from the start.

What is the IKEA door quality like?

When we bought our house there was a bedroom done out in Pax wardrobes. They hold a lot, tbf. We’ve changed some of the inside configurations, eg shelves don’t work as well as the mesh baskets, and instead of having double rails we took the lower one out and replaced it with 4 mesh baskets which hold more and are more flexible.

DS2 has just had an extension done and had his Pax wardrobes put on a frame with a skirting board front. They look much nicer. He’s done the same with Kallax units in the playroom too, it just finishes it all off.

Yes this is pretty much what we did.

Fab, thanks all. @TheFairyCaravan I've actually configured the inside with quite a bit of shelving because that's what we have in our current house. They're used for linen, towels and general storage as well as clothes. I've got Hammonds wardrobes here and they are good quality, but I literally need 7m of wardrobes and I can't afford much more than £6k. I don't think I will acheive anything other than Pax for my budget. Even if I spend £4k with proper fitting/adapting I will have a bit left over to put in my decorating/carpeting budget.

Thank you @Sherararara , it is great to hear that that works.

I think they look great, especially when fitted by a carpenter.

Thank you, I need to go and have a look at them, I think I prefer the Tyssedal door, still I can have a load of wardrobes for £3k at IKEA plus fitting.

If you didn't fit them yourself can you tell me if you started by asking a kitchen fitter, carpenter or someone else? I don't know anyone to ask as my builder retired last year.

We have lots of Pax wardrobes, both open front (in a dressing room) and with doors. We had bespoke doors made by Noremax for two rooms, they really look good and are solid. We also have Ikea doors in DS’s room (his choice), he’s a teenager and not the most careful, but 4 years on the doors still look like new.

I think Pax is a really great product, I love the storage it gives me in the dressing room, I have trays for jewellery and accessories, space for suitcases, shoes and bags, bedding etc. I even have a dedicated gift wrapping shelf and drawer, very useful at Christmas time 🎄

We also have bespoke Superfronts drawer fronts in our bathrooms, they are also very nice and still look new 4 years on. Some of their designs are pretty funky if that’s what you’re after - we have a plain design in one bathroom, and a funky one in the other, and both look great.

Our wardrobes were all fitted by a carpenter and are “built in” (walls and ceilings are built around them, including A/C vents, so they sit flush with the surrounding areas). We even have units under the eaves that were cut at an angle to maximise storage.

Thank you @Koulibiak . Noremax looks amazing!

We love ours. I had the ikea planner service on teams and it worked well. Paid for one of their fitters which was around £400 I think, only earlier this year
He did a perfect job. I would definitely have them again if we moved

Was their fitter just a build service @WeAreOnTheRoadToNowhere? I’m looking for a built in look, removing skirting boards, putting them on a plinth so I can put a skirting on the front and scribing into the wall.

We removed the skirting boards ourselves but he would have done it
We started with the teams meeting planning then this was offered. He wasnt directly employed by ikea, i got the impression he was self employed, but a service they link to. We did actually use him to do some other work
Once you are linked with a fitter you have a direct line to them. He was excellent

@WeAreOnTheRoadToNowhereinteresting, I want Pax but want the built in look, wasn’t aware you could get this via Ikea.