Ikea Pax Barn Door Hack

Find some creative handles or knobs that fit the new look.
Ikea pax barn door hack. The most popular ikea pax hack is repainting the doors or changing them completely. With sliding mirror doors you add at least one or more big mirrors to your room. This makes the whole room look and feel bigger another both practical and stylish detail with mirror doors. Sliding doors with mirrors make it very easy just slide the door into place and check yourself out.
Typically these doors would be attached to a wardrobe like a piece of furniture that you d buy along with the doors. Ikea pax is a wardrobe closet system that ikea offers. We designed this one to not only be lightweight but also affordable and pretty darn cute. As with anything it s the finishing touches that take something from ordinary to special.
But ikea didn t have enough in stock so i settled for the plain ballstad doors instead knowing i could transform them somehow. Anything from blush to emerald is welcome. This was achieved by drilling holes in the top of the door frames and screwing large. You can follow the steps in this hack and replace the hollow core door.
But we only purchased the doors not the wardrobe. While anyone familiar with pax wardrobe systems can tell the finished closet is from ikea i still wanted it to feel higher end. Leather ones brass handles vintage knobs or other pieces. So we bought new doors for the closet and repurposed the pax glass doors as barn doors for our two bedrooms.
Jun 16 2016 explore lu lew s board ikea hack sliding door followed by 103 people on pinterest. The 19 5 wide doors you have your eye on are hinge doors. I settled on a criss cross barn door style pattern similar to this but without the horizontal bar in the center. Drywall framing for closet overhang.
When it comes to hacking great storage no other ikea product works a room like the billy bookcase. The billy bookcase is pretty straightforward to build right out of the box or you can get creative and make elaborate storage that looks great. Take a look at 18 of the best billy bookcase built ins ever. Yes they are slightly narrower than the range of pax sliding doors.
I ve not seen them turned into barn doors yet but i reckon it would be using the ikea hinge door the same way as any other store bought door. For years we had an ikea pax armoire with glass sliding doors. We love barn doors. The photo below shows how the wardrobes looked installed before we did any additional work.
We used it as a closet as a dining room storage unit and then again as a closet. Paint the doors with the color that you like and that fits your interior. The first is an easy hack. See more ideas about ikea ikea hack ikea pax.