IKEA PAX Wardrobe Frame with Sliding Doors (890.256.78) vs Bush Furniture Cabot L-Shaped Computer Desk (WC31830)
What separates them
These two differ on 5 recorded specifications. The IKEA PAX Wardrobe Frame with Sliding Doors (890.256.78) is ₹20,000 dearer.
IKEA PAX Wardrobe Frame with Sliding Doors (890.256.78) vs Bush Furniture Cabot L-Shaped Computer Desk (WC31830)
IKEA
IKEA PAX Wardrobe Frame with Sliding Doors (890.256.78)
₹49,990
Honeycomb paper board is how a wardrobe this size weighs what it does, and it is the trade being made: light enough to carry upstairs, and not repairable if it takes damp.
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Bush
Bush Furniture Cabot L-Shaped Computer Desk (WC31830)
₹29,990
Thermally fused laminate is a real step above the printed melamine foil on cheaper desks -- it is bonded under heat and pressure rather than glued on, so it resists scratching and does not peel at the edges.
Full details →Who the IKEA PAX Wardrobe Frame with Sliding Doors is for
Buy it if: Anyone in a small bedroom where sliding doors avoid swing clearance, on a level floor.
Avoid it if: Anyone budgeting only for the frame, or with a noticeably uneven floor.
Who the Bush Furniture Cabot L-Shaped Computer Desk is for
Buy it if: Anyone with the floor space for a genuine L-shaped desk and a helper for assembly.
Avoid it if: Anyone in a compact room -- this occupies a corner 150 cm on each side.
Specifications, side by side
5 of 16 rows differ. Differences first.
| Specification | IKEA PAX Wardrobe Frame with Sliding Doors | Bush Furniture Cabot L-Shaped Computer Desk |
|---|---|---|
| Price | ₹49,990 | ₹29,990 |
| Assembly | Required, roughly 3 hours, and genuinely a two-person job | Required, roughly 2 hours, and it is a two-person job |
| Humidity behaviour | Honeycomb board is more vulnerable to damp than solid particleboard, and cannot be repaired | Particleboard core, so unsealed edges swell |
| Panel material | Particleboard and honeycomb-structure paper filling, foil finished. Very light for its size, and correspondingly not solid | Engineered wood -- thermally fused laminate over particleboard |
| Weight | 105 kg | 68 kg |
| Weight capacity | Frame roughly 100 kg total; each internal shelf about 20 kg | About 90 kg across the surface |
| Warranty | 1 Year Official Brand Warranty | 1 Year Official Brand Warranty |
| Cable management | not published | Grommets in both surfaces |
| Construction | Board frame with honeycomb paper board panels -- this is how it stays light at this size | not published |
| Doors | Sliding, so no swing clearance needed, which matters in small Indian bedrooms | not published |
| Finish | not published | Thermally fused laminate, which is bonded under heat rather than glued foil -- more durable than printed melamine |
| Footprint | not published | 150 x 152 cm, which is large for an Indian room |
| Levellers | not published | Adjustable |
| Levelling | Adjustable feet, and the floor must be level for the doors to run true | not published |
| Modularity | Interior fittings sold separately -- the frame ships nearly empty | not published |
| Reversible | not published | The L can be assembled left or right handed |
| Wall fixing | Mandatory. IKEA supplies the bracket and it is not optional on a 236 cm wardrobe | not published |
Every row is a figure one or both products record. A blank is a figure the catalogue does not hold, not a zero.
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