Nursery: PAX corner wardrobe installed

Last week I shared our storage plan for the nursery, this week I’m showing you the end result. The piece (or two pieces) fit in like it belonged in that corner. The inside drawers and shelves are exactly what I wanted and where I wanted them to be and  this whole set up saves us the need (and $$) to get a dresser for this room:  What I love the most about this wardrobe is its permanence. We are determined to have this piece for as long as we can to accommodate the growing baby and use until it’s time go off to college!:) For now, there is enough space to fill in, but if we ever need to, we can always add more sections either to the left or right sides later on.
Since our corner unit is only 201 cm high (as opposed to 236cm option), it only came with one shelve. I wanted to get one more to install in the middle but Ikea doesn’t sell them separately. We’d have to get crafty and cut one out ourselves one day.
The corner looks pretty different than before and it's a big relief to get one step closer to having the room ready:

Nursery plans: PAX corner wardrobe

This weekend, V and I took care of storage. Storage is our main concern considering we only have 600 sq. ft main floor. We have another few on the lower level where stuff can go (and it does, unfortunately) but on the main level, we are pretty tight. We try to keep things simple and not stock up on anything. But with the baby in the future, there will be things to store. As much as we plan to keep those belongings under control and limited to the very necessary basics, there will be things: toys, clothes, shoes, gear, etc.
Back when we were renovating the future "baby" room, we decided to get rid of the closet that was in the room originally: Well, it wasn’t so much of a closet as much as a thick wall sticking out of the main wall and taking up space. It had one shelve, one metal bar inside and two old sliding doors on the outside. It wasn’t functional, it wasn’t built-in and it had to go: V demolished it in seconds and we felt so much better after it was gone (isn't his face expression just priceless?): We figured out that once the time comes, we’d get something instead of it. Now that we are impatiently waiting for the space to be occupied, we decided to fill the corner that we’d freed up with a store bought wardrobe. Ikea’s corner PAX seemed to be so right for the spot. Since the bedroom event is on right now, we went and got one this weekend (V’s assembling it these days): It takes up less space and has lots of storage potential. We can hang some clothes and store seasonal ones without packing them away and bringing downstairs. For little items, we’ve added a side panel on the left that holds shelves, drawers and my all time favourite - basket, which is great for storing shoes. In order to save a little on this investment, we didn’t go for the tallest option but settled on the smaller one and opted out of the high gloss doors. Even though we love them so much on our bedroom PAX, they didn’t seem necessary in the child’s room. (not to mention super pricy)

What do you think? Would you install a corner PAX in the kids room?

Built in PAX

The spring is here and so is the time to change up the winter clothes to a lighter spring/summer ones. While doing so the other day, I couldn’t help but notice how well we’re doing with our  PAX wardrobe system. We installed it almost a year ago, but had completely finished it off a few days ago.

I guess the system works for us because V and I are trying to keep everything minimal around here. I’m not a “fashionista” type of woman, there is no closet space devoted to shoes or a place to hold all my jewellry, simply because I don’t have much of any of that. I can occasionally splurge on good jeans, nice pair of sneakers or boots and I might have a soft spot for scarves and shawls:) but nothing too excessive even there. And with V, its even much more simpler than that – couple of jeans, nice sweater, some t-shirts and socks:) We literally shop for “his” clothes once, twice a year at most. That’s right, folks – minimalism, take it or leave it, but it’s our philosophy and we’re sticking to it.:)

Basically, we have three sections in our PAX: two meter-ones for each of us on the sides and half-a-meter-one in the middle - to be shared.

In order to fit this giant in the closet niche, V had to cut a bit of the linen closet that intersects into the room on the right side, and built the wall over. Not his favourite reno thing to do, but it had to be done in order to gain the 2.5m wide space. There was some empty space left atop the closet, which we closed off by using a baseboard strip from Home Depot. V also attached a quarter round at the base to give our PAX a fully “built-in” look.

We opted for single doors in shiny white and three mirrored ones in the middle. They enhance the size of the room and reflect so much needed light.

I'm quite happy with our PAX so far and already looking for other places in the house to fit another one into:)