Ikea Built In Wardrobe Hack

Finished photo first of course.

After ripping out the existing wall we have a huge but complex space to work with.

Annoyingly the angled roof is on a 46° angle. That one degree meant I had to get the angles at 44° or 46° or the joints would be out - but I couldn’t ‘see’ if they were right when cutting them.

I was a bit worried about how clean the cuts would be. Circular saw, guide rail and cutting with a shallow backwards cut first resulted in a really neat finish. The Ikea laminate cuts really well.

First wardrobe unit in place. Not one wardrobe was a standard unit!

End of the second day - both wardrobe units in place in the ‘Narnia’ walk through wardrobe. There’s no back to the second wardrobe unit from the right which gives access to two shelving units.

Now this was tricky! I had to use trigonometry and everything!

Check out the angled section over the stairs bulkhead. Really chuffed with that bit!

Told you I was chuffed with it! Had to cut a channel in the angled piece for the section of back panel.

Closer view of the ‘Narnia’ wardrobe before the lighting was added.

The Ikea wardrobe lighting was incredibly easy to fit and works perfectly. The open one is my wardrobe... All the others are my wife’s!

First of the double depth units with shelving. These have turned out really well. One has hanging space at the front with shelves behind and the other just deep shelves.

Another tricky cut. Had to exactly match the unit behind and leave just enough depth at the front to fit a full door.

That’s all the units in place and the doors going on. The doors were cut to the right angle and then had oak edging band applied. I was worried about the finish at first but it looks perfect.

Almost done! Just the wall trim to put in now.

Since we were Ikea hacking I cut down a couple of Malm drawers to make a much more functional bedside table. I wish Ikea would sell these - even as an add-on kit it would be really easy to do.

And a smaller one for the other side.