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Photo + measurements
Snap the wall, give us width, height, and any sloping ceiling angles. Like the Pax planner, but the studio sizes to your exact alcove instead of 50 cm / 1 m / 1.5 m steps.
IKEA Pax alternative Pre-launch
The Pax alternative, sized to your wall and it actually fits.
IKEA Pax wardrobes are clever, but they're 50 cm or 1 m wide and made of foil-wrapped particleboard. Your alcove is 1.37 m. Knuslabs is being built as the bespoke Pax alternative: exact-fit wardrobe concepts with provisional oak, birch, walnut, or lacquered finish directions. Design free today; production details follow later in 2026.
Why people leave Pax
The Pax problem isn't the design. It's the dimensions and the materials.
Pax is brilliant in theory. Modular, configurable, decent interior fittings, and a smart pricing model. Then you measure your alcove and find it's 1.37 m, not 1, not 1.5. You buy a Pax 1 m, lose 37 cm to a side filler that gathers dust. Or you buy 1.5 m and take the door off its hinges, and it sticks out into the room.
The other thing nobody mentions: Pax interiors are 16 mm particleboard with white foil. Hang a heavy winter coat collection on one side and the rail bows. Move flats and the foil chips. After ten years, the carcass is recyclable but the foil isn't.
A bespoke wardrobe sized to your exact alcove will cost more than Pax (around €2,400 vs €600 for a comparable 2 m run), but the value is the exact fit, saved design work, and a production plan you can review before ordering. The studio is free today; material and fulfillment details follow before launch.
Pax-style configurability, bespoke fit, production details to confirm.
Before-and-after comparison: The Pax problem isn't the design. It's the dimensions and the materials. 
Before Concept
How it works
Configure your wardrobe online. Same simplicity, better fit.
Same online configurator feel. Material details confirmed before ordering.
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Pick finish direction and fittings
Oak, birch, walnut, or lacquered finish directions. Soft-close hinges, sliding doors, drawer interiors, mirror fronts: all configurable. Exact substrates and suppliers are confirmed later.
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Production details before order
Save the concept to your account today. Before production opens later in 2026, we confirm the material spec, finish, hardware, packaging, lead time, and assembly requirements.
Pax-replacement concepts
What a Pax replacement could look like, sized to your wall.
Six concepts the studio generates for the kind of awkward alcove and ceiling shapes Pax can't handle.
oak Concept
1.37 m × 2.40 m × 60 cm Indicative €2,600–€3,000
Replacement for Pax 1 m + 37 cm filler
The Pax setup with a filler panel that catches dust. The concept here is a full-width oak wardrobe, 1.37 m exact. Hinged doors, brass pulls.
birch Concept
3.20 m × 2.54 m × 58 cm Indicative €3,200–€3,900
Replacement for three Pax 1 m units
A wall of three Pax replaced as a single 3.2 m birch-finish wardrobe with floor-to-ceiling sliding doors and a continuous shelf interior.
walnut Concept
2.20 m × 2.80 m × 60 cm Indicative €3,400–€4,000
Replacement under a 38° sloping eave
Sloping ceiling that forced a 50 cm Pax with the top cut off (badly). Concept: walnut with a stepped top that follows the eave exactly.
offwhite Concept
1.80 m × 2.20 m × 54 cm Indicative €2,100–€2,500
Mirror-front Pax replacement
When the Pax foil chips after a move. Concept: lacquered finish direction, mirror fronts on full-height pivots, and an oak-toned interior shelf.
oak Concept
2.40 m × 2.40 m × 60 cm Indicative €4,200–€4,900
Walk-in concept replacing four Pax
Four Pax in a U-shape acting as a walk-in. Concept: a single integrated walk-in in oak, with a central island drawer unit.
birch Concept
1.20 m × 2.40 m × 60 cm Indicative €1,400–€1,700
Single-bay replacement, the cheap option
Small-bedroom Pax 1 m swap. Same footprint, with birch and oak finish directions. Single hinged door, internal drawer tower. Lowest-price replacement concept.
Materials
Material directions, not final promises.
The studio uses wood-led finish directions so concepts feel concrete. Exact substrates, suppliers, finishes, packaging, and delivery details will be confirmed before any production order opens.
Birch direction
Candidate finish family
Final substrate and supplier to confirm before ordering
Oak direction
Candidate finish family
Warm wood-led look; exact build spec still in development
Walnut direction
Candidate finish family
Darker wood-led look; exact build spec still in development
Accent direction
Candidate finish family
Accent materials will be confirmed before production opens
How we compare
Pax vs Knuslabs vs local carpenter.
| Knuslabs (at launch) | IKEA Pax | Local carpenter | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sized to your alcove | To the millimetre | No: 50, 75 cm, 1, 1.5 m | Yes |
| Materials | Finish direction confirmed before order | Foil-wrapped particleboard | Solid wood or ply |
| Indicative price (2 m wide) | €2,400–€3,200 | €600–€1,100 | €3,800–€5,500 |
| Production timing | To confirm before order | 1-day pickup, hours of assembly | 6–10 weeks |
| Assembly | Requirements to confirm | Power drill + an afternoon | Carpenter installs |
| Lifespan | Designed for repairable parts | 5–12 years | Decades |
Things people ask
The Pax alternative, in practice.
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Skip the filler panel The Pax alternative
The Pax alternative
opens later in 2026. Design yours now.
Photograph your bedroom wall, give us three measurements, and the studio will generate four wardrobe concepts sized to your exact alcove. Oak, birch, walnut, or lacquered finish directions are provisional until production details are confirmed. Free today.
Design free today · production details follow later in 2026 · Built from Amsterdam