Low Cost Pull-Out Pantry

[John TenEyck]

A former colleague was using a wire shelving unit to store the Kitchenaid mixer, and assorted other seldom used appliances and supplies. The shelving unit fit into a narrow space that had been left between a floor to almost ceiling cabinet and adjacent wall. But it looked poor and didn't roll out very well, so they asked me if I could build a built-in pull-out pantry type cabinet. They also wanted a 3 drawer base cabinet to go on the other side of the existing cabinet. Sure.

The kitchen is a typical mid-level affair, nothing special. Red oak plywood cabinets, raised panel doors, lacquer finish. The pantry cabinet slide systems I looked at are very expensive; I knew those were out of the question. So I decided to use standard 100 lb load rating side mounted drawer slides, and to mount the top, middle, and bottom shelves to the door. The other pull-out shelves would operate independently.

Here's what they look like:

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There will be a cabinet between these two; I just put them together for the photos. The drawer cabinet is a typical arrangement. I made three Baltic birch drawers using 1/2" finger joints, and mounted them with K&V self closing side mounted slides.

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Here is the pantry cabinet with the door pulled open:

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KV 100 lb self closing slides again. The door is screwed to the drawer boxes and slides quite smoothly. To maximize the width of the shelves I designed them with no lip on the side you load them from (the other side sits against a wall). The face frame is as narrow as I dared go, too. The right side will actually fit over the faceframe of the adjacent cabinet; the left side will be scribed to the wall.

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Thanks for looking.

John

[James Pallas]

Great work. That is one of the "can't just go buy it" things that woodworkers do for themselves and others. The value of that is worth plenty. To say inexpensive is an understatement. Your talent made it inexpensive.
Jim

[John TenEyck]

As a follow-up here are a couple of photos after installation:

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I also made a couple of robust pullout drawers to fit inside a lower cabinet that had some flimsy pullout shelves. These will take about anything you can put in them and nothing can fall out and jamb inside the cabinet.

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John

[Mark Gibney]

John, your photos of after the installation seem not to have loaded. I'd like to see them if you could re-post them. Thanks, and nice work.

[John TenEyck]

Hi Mark,

Hmm, I can see them. I'll try loading them again. Let me know if you still can't see them.

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John

[Thomas Bank]

I cannot see the first set either, but can see the second set. It looks like you’re linking them from a Google account? You may not have it set so that the public can see them, which would explain why you can see them (you’re logged into your account).

[John TenEyck]

Hi Thomas. I think you are right. I changed the access so that anyone can see them now.

John

[Thomas Bank]

The posts in #3 still aren’t showing for me. The ones in #1 and #5 do show, though.

Here is what I see in #3:

[John TenEyck]

The photos in post 3 must still carry the private setting. I thought they would have changed when I made them public, but apparently not. But they are the same as in post 5 so I see no reason to fool around trying to fix what doesn't need to be.

John