No! That is why the are a lot cheaper!

You can use the pax doors but get a carpenter to make a frame with a bit in the middle the width needed to make up the difference needed. Or many of the home stores, B&Q, Wickes etc do sliding wardrobe door packs, so it's not that hard to make something to fit. Obviously, you will pay more for it to be tailor made, you have to buy the materials and pay for the guy's time.

Depends what you want.

3 of these from Wickes on a frame would take up the 190cm width wickes sliding doors. With a nice thick frame top and bottom you can easily make up the remaining 13cm of height ( the doors being 222cm ) Then you can put what you like on the inside using a multitude of ideas from ikea, or design it as simply as you like for someone to build.

The last one of these that I made cost the client £1200 but it fitted perfectly. ( Albeit the inside was just hanging rails )

Thanks for all comments and suggestions.

We really don't want any gaps, or boxes on top, and we want to maximise every inch of storage space so not keen on hiding gaps with bases / panels etc.

And I have retired from DIY. So looks like PAX might not be for us.

What is the score with these places like Sharps, Hammond's etc (and wicked / homebase)? Are they sort of made to measure, so you choose a unit that's close and they alter it to fit?

That Jali place looks very interesting - thank you!

I did also find this DIY Wardrobes place - but there is v little chatter about it on the internet (couldn't find many reviews, references etc.)

https://www.diywardrobes.co.uk/

adrianlowery

You only will achieve the functionality you are after with a bespoke system.

We exclusively supply truly bespoke sliding wardrobes made in Denmark . Stunning quality .

Please have a look at our website , download our brochure ( price examples excl installation at the back )

www.slidingwardrobessolutions.co.uk

I'll be happy to do initial design , just send me your plan with dims and any storage solutions required .

We deliver nationally too.

Right can anyone advise me if it is possible to cut away the bottom of a PAX side panel to fit around the skirting board (ours are about 10cm high) and have it flush to the wall? If we can do this then we can fit a 200cm wide unit in. Looking at the prices of real fitted stuff, we just aren't going to be in the flat long enough to justify.

Just had a look at our (10 year old) pax and I don't think you can. In ours you would have to cut the base as well, exposing MDF on both sides. We have ours in front of the skirting board.

Jen thank you. Do you mean at the back? We would not need the back to be flush, I was just thinking the bottom of the side panel.

They may make them differently now. But in ours the side panel joins directly to the back.

Ok ta. Also not possible because of the doors too probably? - esp sliding ones. Alternatively we could cut a hole in the right-hand panel that could go around the radiator valve...

God I'm so stupid sometimes - yes that would be by far the better solution thanks!

>> I guess wardrobes will stay once you move out?

Probably yes

Bespoke joinery is always better to achieve maximum of storage from space you got. However with PAX there is option to match up for saving cost, however you are limited to size, if you got 190cm you need to fit 150cm and have covering panels.

We did in few houses to get lower cost build in units, that we put it in PAX wardrobes and we made bespoke side panels and framing, skirting so when you close them it looks like bespoke, where inside is still IKEA.