This Is My New Favorite Way to Paint the IKEA PAX Wardrobe

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Painting big-box furniture is a great way to give a piece a little more personality than it came with in the cardboard — especially when you follow the dos and don’ts. There are plenty of great painted IKEA furniture pieces and IKEA hacks that add an instant pop of color to a room, like this cute pink IKEA VIKHAMMER, these bright blue IKEA BESTAs, and this salmon-colored IKEA PAX hack.

And speaking of the PAX, I’ve seen dozens of hacks that make the big-box wardrobe look built-in, but while I was scrolling on Instagram last week, this one by DIYer Dominy Irving especially caught my eye — and I bookmarked it.

Dominy and her husband used three PAX wardrobes and a STORKLINTA dresser to add some extra storage to their primary bedroom. “I really love our wardrobes and the fact that we were able to build them on a budget,” Dominy writes on Instagram. Her favorite part of the bedroom wall are the tiny little shelves squeezed into the excess space on the righthand side of the room, but what really caught my eye was the two-tone paint job. The paint colors, if you’re wondering, are Dulux’s Poison Ivy and Cucumber Water.

I love these green tones for spring, and I also love the two-tone take because I often see PAXes painted just one color (the same color as the walls) to make them look built-in. “Color blocking is such a great way to incorporate lots of colour and creativity into a room,” Dominy says on Instagram.

And her advice for achieving a perfectly crisp paint line for your two-tone job is to invest in a quality painter’s tape and to seal the edge of your tape with your base color before adding your new, bolder color. “Always paint over the edge of the tape with the existing color first,” she says on Instagram.She has zero regrets about how bold she went with the colors. “[I’m] really pleased I stuck to my guns and decided to go bright and bold in here,” she says. “The color just makes me so happy whenever I walk into the room.”

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