Hackers Help: Can I turn regular PAX units into a corner wardrobe?

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I am thinking of purchasing a PAX wardrobe to fit on a little corner on my entry room.

I really like the new design of PAX corner module. The problem is that the corner unit is very similar to a regular unit but almost 3 times the price! (at least in Spain)

PAX corner wardrobe

Do you know if it is possible to hack a regular unit to act as corner unit? My guess is that making space to open the doors correctly is the tricky part. Thank you for your help!

~ by Yolanda from Spain

All photos from IKEA.com

Corner wardrobe solution found!

Updated 25 February 2020.

See Simon’s 35mm PAX corner wardrobe hack using regular units to achieve a corner.

pax corner wardrobe

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2. The shelves, specially those longer than 50 cm, tend to sag in the middle.

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6 Responses

  1. Hi,
    My husband and I tried making one of our PAX cabinets into a corner cabinet and it did not work. We took off the flimsy backing and brought the backs of the two sides together to form a triangle in the corner. We had planned to cut the top, bottom and shelves into triangles to fit in the cabinet, but there was a huge gap between the two front doors- a gap that was at least 9 inches wide- wider than a vertical center board would cover. You’d need much wider doos to make this work and hinges on the doors that allow the doors to swing inward some.
    -Heather

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  2. Hi.
    i used two regular PAX pieces instead of the special corner piece to use maximum space available and to save the costs. But I did not use PAX doors so I cannot comment on the doors fit.

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    1. This sounds like what I want to do, a wider unit with a “blind corner” and then a skinny unit seem to basically look like the corner unit they sell…. I don’t want doors either, did this work well for you?

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  3. We build our walldrope with the add-on corner unit and really love it. But somehow it a lot cheaper in Germany (it costs a little over 100€).

    I think it’s possible to hack this, but you have to see if it’s worse energy and time in relation to spending more money.

    Lets say, you want to add the corner unit to the right side.
    1.) Add first you have to widen the left side panel to 4,4cm, so you have to add 2,7cm (but you will be fine with 3mm more or less) at least to the bottom & top.
    2.) Then you will need angle brackets to connect the two units. When you connect them, the left side of the left normal element should be about 52,7cm (you should be fine with 3mm more or less) away from the front of the corner unit.
    3.) If you did 1.) only at top and bottom, you will have to close the gap in the back now.
    4.) After you added the doors, you will see a gap where the to doors meet. You might want to find something to close it. I don’t know what it’s called. (piece: 154045 in the manual)

    Another solution would be to build individual door.

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  4. i used two regular PAX pieces instead of the special corner piece to use maximum space available and to save the costs. But I did not use PAX doors so I cannot comment on the doors fit.

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  5. Could you leave off one corner unit and have open shelving. Could solve to door opening problem.

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