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Leonoor

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Leonoor has made beautiful custom-made cabinet doors using birch plywood cut to size. The base of the cabinet is an Ikea Pax cabinet. They have turned out to be gorgeous custom-made cabinet doors!

Description by Leonoor

In a children's room, I installed a PAX cabinet (IKEA) under a sloping wall. For this PAX cabinet, I wanted beautiful doors and not ordinary ones. That's why I installed custom-cut birch plywood doors here.

How I Made This Project

Cut the Pax cabinet to size and placed it under the sloping roof
Measured the doors on-site (I knew the width of the IKEA cabinet, but I had to measure the sloping roof)
Created a drawing of the doors (in Illustrator) to check if the measurements were correct. Because the sloping top line of the three doors had to continue smoothly.
Ordered the doors based on the drawing
Then attached the hinges (standard IKEA hinges)
Determined the exact location of the hinges by measuring them on another Pax cabinet in the house. The assembly instructions are often included with the hinges you buy.
Drilled a hole corresponding to the hinges and then attached the hinges to the door.
Then the doors could be attached to the Pax cabinet.
I did not apply any stain to the cabinet because I like the color now. Hopefully, it won't discolor too much!