If you’ve been around here for a while, you know I love a good high/low moment. Give me something practical, affordable, maybe even a little basic… and I’ll happily dream about how to turn it into something that feels special and built just for our home. That is exactly what happened with our IKEA PAX wardrobe.

What started as a simple storage solution became one of my favorite transformations in our bedroom. And the best part? We didn’t need a fully custom millwork budget to get there. Let me tell you how we did it.

I wasn’t planning on changing our bedroom color, to be honest. I started working on this space earlier last year, almost at the same time I was designing my room in NYC. The two months before that I was fully immersed in bedroom inspiration, gathering ideas, saving images, thinking about layouts and palettes… and naturally, the itch to finally do something about our bedroom sparked.