ᐅ Walk-in closet with or without built-in wardrobes

Bertram100 schrieb:

I didn’t use the clothes rail designed for the Ivar; instead, I secured a broom handle in place.

We also have a custom build. Ivar can be easily cut and combined to fit well. We have a sloped ceiling, and it still works perfectly. The drawers are from Malm. Works fine.

As an alternative to a walk-in closet, you can position a wardrobe to act as a room divider. This saves you a few crucial centimeters of space since you don’t need a wall. However, if you buy a wardrobe in a typical price range, you will need to cover the back side.

Advantages:

• More space
• Visually, the room remains larger
• Greater air volume (small rooms in modern homes can quickly feel "stuffy")
• No separate heating or ventilation controls necessary (unless underfloor heating is used)
• Cost efficiency

Disadvantages:

• Limited wardrobe options (must be able to stand freely, with a finished back)
• Possibly need to build a back panel for the wardrobe
• No sound insulation, as it is the same room
• No full light blockage, as light can shine over the wardrobe into the sleeping area

I have hated IVAR passionately since my youth. I find the assembly dreadful. You basically can only put it together crookedly, and then you have to hope that it matches the specific "crookedness" of your floor and walls.

I actually prefer a heavy-duty shelving unit from a hardware store over that.

I still haven’t decided what we’ll do in the bedroom—whether we’ll get a Pax system or something else.

My wife doesn’t want wardrobes at all, but rather dressers with drawers so she can put even more plants on top of them. She already occupies 4 meters (13 feet) of wardrobe space by herself.

Tolentino schrieb:

You can actually only build it crooked

My wife seems to be managing it just fine 😉
I didn’t have it as a child, so I wasn’t negatively biased. In the end, ours is white-stained and quite sturdy (and straight).

No, no, no, my mother was in charge of the childhood trauma project, and for the current Ivar, I told my wife even before buying it that she could assemble it on her own. I didn’t go along with a spirit level, but at the top end, the two side posts are definitely at different distances from the wall. It’s stable, but not perfectly straight.

So congratulations @ypg: either you’re particularly skilled, lucky, or the white stain has something to do with it.

Maybe your wall is just slanted?!
To be honest, I didn’t check how far it protrudes from the wall. It is at a right angle and appears straight forward visually. That’s good enough for our laundry 😉