Chopping up a wardrobe

I once had to cut down 6 brand new IKEA double wardrobes for a lady - her husband had measured the ceiling height incorrectly :-(

Took about 4" off the height.

Is it flatpack or pre assembled?

Picky of proposed location?

Chainsaw

Angle Grinder :-)

Lay it on it's side?

circular saw, electric plane. Not jigsaw.

NT

Fein MultiMaster

I've not bought it yet but will probably be from IKEA as my daughter has furnished the room with everything else from there!!

There isn't that much room to play with. The vertical walls start sloping at

Steven.

I chopped the top off a wardrobe-like thing (part of a huge horrible built-in furniture item left behind by the previous owners) in order to use it in my shed. Circular saw straight through it in-situ worked fine, but then again I wasn't looking for anything especially neat - is this for an inhabited loft?

Pete

Usually no problem if you ditch the KD fittings and replace them with screws

Yes is it will be a bedroom for a teenager so needs to be presentable.

Steven.

Bedroom? Teenager? Presentable? That's an odd combination of words! (I know, Dad's slightly rough DIY is on a par with placing him/her in Guantanamo. His/her dirty ?socks?, and last weeks' supper plate are irrelevancies).

On a more serious note, the problem you will have, is that the whole thing is structural. You will need to fit some bracing otherwise the whole thing will shake like a jelly (or just fall apart). You will also need something to cover the bare chipboard where you make the cut.

How about 'to the right of the banister facing the camera' & trim the bottom off to lower the height, leaving the corner as is. That would be easier & leave it structurally sound. If you cut the corner off, the doors gonna ba a problem I reckon.