Ikea Pax wardrobe - door hinge and drawer collision

Hello,

I had the same problem. Planned it in the planner, bought everything, and looked dumb during assembly. Since a basket at the bottom was not an option for me at all, I decided to mill a groove in the side of the drawer. I milled the side panel, where the hinge is located, from the front to about 8 cm from the rear edge, about 2.5 cm wide and about 0.6 cm (about half the board thickness) deep. Then also a recess in the front, and now I have a drawer at the bottom. Visually, the open groove in the chipboard doesn't bother me, because on that side there is the door anyway, so you can't see it, and the recess in the front doesn't bother me either, as it is filled by the hinge. I am now satisfied with this solution. Nevertheless, it is an embarrassment from Ikea, partly because you can plan the drawer like this in the planner, but even more because I consider it a real design flaw not to be able to have a drawer at the bottom. Ikea should come up with something, e.g. offering correspondingly grooved drawers.

To update the post - there is now a solution available online - we had the same problem and wanted to return the whole mess to Ikea. Check Google for


On the page, there is a flat hinge that allows you to install the drawers at the very bottom anyway. It worked for us.

Nice but really expensive. Hettich also has suitable ones - I don't know the article number right now.

Nice but really expensive. Hettich also has matching ones - but I don't know the article number right now.

Hi! We are currently facing the same problem.... Has the article number from Hettich come up in the meantime? Regards

So we have this one here ET 582 shop.hettich.com/de_DE/Scharniere/Spezialscharniere/F%C3%BCr-K%C3%BChlschrankumbauten%2C-%C3%96ffnungswinkel-95%C2%B0/Spezialscharnier-ET-582/p/72134?text=et582

Strong, thanks! We'll give it a try with that!