Pull out shelves
Pull out shelves for kitchen cabinets
A pull out shelf rolls the whole shelf out to you, so the pan in the back is as easy to reach as the one by the door. We build pull out shelves as real dovetailed boxes on full extension slides, cut to your exact cabinet opening in 1/32 in steps.
People search for the same build under different names. Pull out shelves, also called roll out shelves, slide out shelves or sliding shelves, are all the same box, and sometimes written as one word, pullout.
Quick answer. A pull out shelf is a low sided dovetail box on full extension slides that rolls out of a base or pantry cabinet behind the door. We build each one to your opening (a side mount shelf is the opening minus 1 in), from $46.99, assembled and shipped free. Baltic Birch ships in about 2 to 4 days. Gritly backs every pull out shelf with a lifetime warranty on the wood box and 1 year on the hardware.
From $46.99
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Every card below is a dovetail box that works as pull out shelves for cabinets; the standard box with slides ships with its side mount slides already mounted, in one order. Pick the plain box for a simple tray or the scoop front for easier reach into a pantry.
Custom scoop front dovetail drawer box
A custom size box with a scoop cut in the front, with 55 profiles to pick from. Popular for pantry rollouts.
From $55.98
Build yoursCustom dovetail drawer box
Any width, height and depth to the 1/32 in, plain for side mount slides or notched for your undermount slide.
★★★★★From $46.99
Build yoursDovetail drawer box with side mount slides
A standard size box that ships with its side mount slides, so the whole drawer arrives in one order.
★★★★★From $114.48
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What is a pull out shelf?
A pull out shelf has low sides and rides on slides behind your existing cabinet door, so the door still opens the way it always did. A pull out drawer is a taller box, often built with its own front, sometimes hung on a separate face rather than riding behind the door. If you want the taller version, see our custom pull out drawers page.
The other comparison is the fixed cabinet shelf you already have. Swapping it for a pull out shelf brings the back of the cabinet to you, so you stop unloading the front row to reach what is behind it.
You may also see the same box called a drawer shelf or shelf drawers.
Roll out shelves
Roll out shelves is the cabinetmaker’s word for the same build: a box on slides that rolls the shelf out to you instead of making you reach into a fixed one. Most run 3 to 5 in of wall height, since much taller starts to act like a drawer instead of a shelf. Heights of 2 in and 3 in add nothing over the base price, and 4 in adds $2.99. Baltic Birch is the default on every rollout; switching to Hard Maple (Select Grade) adds $34.99 and is offered unfinished or finished.
A scoop front, a curved cutout along the top front edge, adds $8.99 and comes in 55 named profiles. It is popular on pantry rollouts because you can see what is on the shelf without pulling it all the way out. Cabinet roll out shelves work with either front, plain or scoop, and with any of the slide types below.
Roll out shelves for cabinets can be stacked, two or three in one base cabinet, each sized to what it holds. That is how most roll out shelves for kitchen cabinets get used, with taller walls on the bottom shelf for pots and lower walls above for lids and pans.
Slide out shelves
Full extension slides are what make a slide out shelf work: the shelf travels far enough that the back clears the cabinet face, not just the front half of it. Slide out shelves for cabinets only earn the name when the slide is full extension. A shelf on a slide that stops partway still hides its own back corner.
Kitchen cabinet slide out shelves set up this way turn a base cabinet from a place you dig through into one you can see into fully. Slide out cabinet shelves work the same on side mount or undermount slides; the difference is what you see and what it costs. Side mount is the simpler, cheaper path to full extension; undermount hides the hardware entirely but limits the box to specific slide lengths.
See how slide out shelves go into a cabinet you already own, doors and all, without replacing the box.
Sliding shelves for cabinets
Sliding shelves for cabinets come down to one choice: which slide carries the box. Kitchen cabinet sliding shelves almost always run on one of the three slides below, and sliding cabinet shelves for heavy pantry loads can step up to a heavy duty undermount runner.
| Type | Lengths | Rating | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Würth PRO 3.0 and PRO100 | Full extension side mount | 10 to 28 in, even | 100 lb per pair |
| Würth PRO100SC | Soft close side mount | 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24 and 28 in | 100 lb per pair |
| Blum TANDEM 563H | Soft close undermount | 9, 12, 15, 18 and 21 in | 100 lb static, box notched free |
Every sliding shelf we build gets its slide prep done before it leaves the shop, no matter which of the three you pick. Locking clips keep the shelf seated on its runners and cost $5.99 installed, the same price across every undermount option we offer. See the full slide lineup for lengths and pricing.
Pull out shelves for base cabinets
Base cabinet pull out shelves have to clear two things a tall pantry does not: the door and its hinge. Open the door all the way before you measure, not just cracked. A hinge arm that stands into the opening narrows the usable width on that side, so measure the opening with the door standing fully open.
Whether your cabinets are frameless or face frame changes how the shelf mounts. Frameless kitchen cabinet pull out shelves run slides straight to the cabinet side. A cabinet with pull out shelves that has a face frame, where the frame sits proud of the cabinet side, usually needs a slide spacer, sold in 1/2, 3/4, 1, 1 1/4 and 1 1/2 in thicknesses, sets of 4, or a rear mounting bracket instead.
Kitchen cabinets with pull out shelves usually start with the base cabinets, where pots, pans and small appliances live. Pull out cabinet shelves for a sink base need the box notched around the plumbing instead; see how that notch works at the sink. For a cabinet deeper than the slide lengths above, see sizing a pull out shelf for a deep cabinet.
How to size a pull out shelf
Width at the top, middle and bottom
Measure the smallest clear opening width in all three spots; cabinets are rarely perfectly square. A side mount shelf is that width minus 1 in, 1/2 in of clearance on each side. A Blum TANDEM or MOVENTO undermount shelf with 5/8 in sides is that same width minus 13/32 in.
Depth to the back panel
Measure straight back to the inside of the cabinet. The slide is the longest even length that fits under that measurement minus about 1 in, and the shelf runs as deep as the slide you pick. A shorter slide than the cabinet allows just leaves a little unused depth at the back, never a shelf that will not fit.
Clear height and your tallest item
Measure the clear height above the shelf location and the tallest thing you plan to store on it. Give each shelf that item’s height plus about 2 in so it slides past without catching.
Face frame cabinets
Build to the frame opening, not the inside width behind it. The frame, not the cabinet box, is what your door and the shelf both have to clear.
Not sure your numbers add up? Run them through the drawer box size calculator before you order.
Custom pull out shelves
Every pull out shelf starts from the same box, built to your opening rather than picked off a shelf of fixed sizes. That covers a pull out shelf for cabinet openings from narrow filler spaces to wide base cabinets, within the sizes below. Order a single cabinet pull out shelf or a whole column of them, and every pull out cabinet shelf in the order is built to its own opening.
| What you can order | |
|---|---|
| WIDTH | 6 to 35 31/32 in, to the 1/32 in |
| DEPTH | 9 to 24 31/32 in, up to 30 in notched for some undermount slides |
| HEIGHT | 2 to 12 3/4 in |
| WOOD | Baltic Birch, ships finished, or Hard Maple (Select Grade), adds $34.99, unfinished or finished |
| SIDES | 5/8 in standard, 1/2 in adds $5.99, 3/4 in adds $15.99 |
| BOTTOM | 1/4 in standard, 1/2 in for heavy loads adds $9.99 on Baltic Birch |
| NOTCHING | Free for undermount slides |
| CLIPS | $5.99 |
What a pull out shelf costs
Two real examples from the configurator. A 14 in wide, 20 in deep, 3 in tall Baltic Birch box, every other field left on default, comes to $82.97. A 21 in wide, 21 in deep, 4 in tall Baltic Birch box set up for side mount slides comes to $97.96, or $132.95 in Hard Maple (Select Grade). Slides price separately unless you order the standard box with slides already mounted.
From $46.99See the full price breakdown by option for every width, depth and height step.
Where pull out shelves work
Pantries are where kitchen pull out shelves do the most good, since a tall cabinet loses its whole back half to things you cannot see. A single pantry cabinet often holds several pull out kitchen shelves stacked floor to ceiling, so the back of the top one stops being a mystery. See sizes built specifically for a pantry.
Under the sink, the shelf has to work around the drain and the trap instead of running flat, so the box gets a U shaped notch cut around the plumbing. See how a sink base pull out is notched around the plumbing.
Deep cabinets need a longer slide, and past 24 31/32 in deep the box is notched for a long undermount runner, up to 30 in. See sizing for a deep cabinet.
Fit out a whole run of cabinets at once rather than one at a time. A trash pull out, a divided drawer and a plain pull out shelf can sit side by side in the same run, each sized to its own cabinet. See organizing a full run of cabinets.
Installing pull out shelves
Slides go on first, either straight to the cabinet sides or onto spacers and rear mounting brackets in a face frame cabinet. Set them level and square, then attach the shelf the way the slide maker’s instructions show: side mount slides fasten to the shelf sides, and undermount runners carry the shelf on locking clips.
Every box ships assembled and sanded with the slide prep already done, so there is no cutting or drilling on your end beyond mounting the slide itself. For the full walkthrough, see putting a shelf into a cabinet you already have and the general box install steps.
Transcript
Step 1. An undermount box has a notch and a hook hole at each back corner. A plain back means side mount or bottom mount. Step 2. Hook the tape on the outside of one side and read it at the outside of the other, front and back. Step 3. Run the tape along the outside of a side from the front of the box to the back, not counting the face. Step 4. Stand the tape against a side, bottom edge to top edge. Measure the side, not the taller face. Step 5. Hook the tape on one inside face and read it at the other, at the front where the slides mount. Step 6. Cabinet floor, or the rail below the opening, to the underside of the rail or stretcher above. Step 7. Front edge of the cabinet straight back to the back panel, along a side where the slide will run. Step 8. The result: a 24 in opening takes a 23 in side mount box, 1/2 in clear on each side.
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Pull out shelf questions
What is the difference between a pull out shelf and a pull out drawer?
A pull out shelf has low sides and rides behind your existing cabinet door. A pull out drawer is a taller box, often built with its own front, sometimes replacing the door itself. Both ride on the same kinds of slides.
Are roll out shelves and slide out shelves the same thing?
Yes. Roll out shelves, slide out shelves and sliding shelves are three names for the same build, a box on full extension slides that rolls the whole shelf out to you.
How much narrower than the cabinet opening should a pull out shelf be?
A side mount shelf runs the opening minus 1 in, 1/2 in of clearance on each side. A Blum TANDEM or MOVENTO undermount shelf with 5/8 in sides runs the opening minus 13/32 in instead.
What slides do pull out shelves use?
Most run on Würth PRO 3.0 or PRO100 full extension side mount slides, both rated 100 lb per pair. Blum TANDEM 563H is the common soft close undermount choice, also 100 lb static, and notching the box for it is free.
Can I replace a fixed cabinet shelf with a pull out shelf?
Yes. Lift out the fixed shelf, or unscrew its cleats, then mount the slides to the cabinet sides at the height you want, and the pull out shelf takes the old shelf’s place.
Is a pull out tray the same as a pull out shelf?
Yes, pull out tray is just another name shoppers use for the same box. We build it as a dovetailed shelf on slides either way, never as a loose tray that sits unattached.
Are shelf drawers the same as pull out shelves?
Yes. Shelf drawers is just another name for the same low sided box on slides. Some shoppers search for one term, some for the other.
Do pull out shelves work in face frame cabinets?
Yes. A face frame cabinet usually needs a slide spacer, sold in 1/2, 3/4, 1, 1 1/4 and 1 1/2 in thicknesses, or a rear mounting bracket, so the shelf clears the frame.
How fast do pull out shelves ship?
Baltic Birch ships in about 2 to 4 days. Hard Maple (Select Grade) ships in about 4 to 5 days. Both are build time before the label prints, not delivery time.
Do your pull out shelves come assembled?
Yes. Every pull out shelf ships dovetailed, sanded and assembled, notched and drilled when it is built for undermount slides. Retail shipping is free.
Where can I buy pull out shelves for kitchen cabinets?
Gritly builds pull out shelves to order in its Las Vegas shop and ships them nationwide. Each one is a dovetailed Baltic Birch or Hard Maple (Select Grade) box sized to your cabinet opening, not a fixed width kit off a shelf. Order through the custom box configurator by choosing the opening size, wood and slides.
What is the difference between a pull out and a roll out drawer?
None. Pull out and roll out both name the same thing here: a drawer or shelf that slides out of a cabinet on full extension slides. Gritly’s own pages use pull out most often, and treat roll out and slide out as the same product however a shopper searches for it.
What is a slide out shelf?
A slide out shelf is another name for a pull out shelf: a low sided box that rolls out of a base or pantry cabinet on full extension slides, instead of staying fixed in place. It holds pots, small appliances or pantry goods where you can see into it, rather than reaching to the back of a fixed shelf.
How wide can a roll out shelf be?
Up to 35 31/32 in wide on Gritly’s configurator, the same limit as any custom drawer box, but check the slides first: common side mount slides are rated for drawers up to 24 in wide. For a wider cabinet, use a slide rated for the width or two shelves side by side.
Where can I buy shelves for my kitchen cabinets?
Gritly sells the pull out kind, a low sided dovetail box that rolls out on full extension slides, online at the custom drawer box page. We do not sell fixed cabinet shelves, only the rolling kind built to your exact opening. Pick Baltic Birch or Hard Maple (Select Grade), from $46.99. Baltic Birch ships in about 2 to 4 days, and retail orders ship free.
Can I order pull out shelves online?
Yes, order a Gritly pull out shelf through the scoop front drawer box page, priced live as you build it, no quote wall. Pick the opening width, depth and wood, check out, and we build and ship it from our Las Vegas shop. Baltic Birch ships in about 2 to 4 days.
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