Slide Out Jewelry Tray

Jewelry Tray For Closet

Our Customer wanted a convenient place to store her jewelry that was close to her full length closet door mirrors. The obvious solution was to make a pull out jewelry tray that would fit in her closet.

The Closet had storage shelves in the middle with hanging rods on either side of the shelves.

The center area of the closet measured 36" wide and 14" deep, the Rev-A-Shelf jewelry tray that we handle measures 21 3/4" wide x 12 3/4" deep and 1 1/2" high.

The height of the jewlery tray fit perfectly in our 2 3/8" pull out shelf, but the width of the closet shelf opening was 14" wider. We did want the jewelry tray to be sliding back and forth when the drawer was pulled out, so we centered the tray in the pull out shelf and installed 1" high cleats on either side of it.

We top mounted 14" full extension slides onto the pull out shelf which we find works better in a closet application rather than installing the drawer slides on the bottom of the shelf as we do in kitchen or pantry cabinet applications.

The jewlery trays come in a set of two, so we made two pull out shelves to fit her closet. Now she has everything where it is convienient. Clothes, Jewelry, and Mirrors.

Pull Out Shelf for Cooking Sheets-Base Kitchen Cabinets

Most kitchen have a cabinet with a narrow opening. This is where we usually store cooking sheets and platter. The problem is, pull out just the cooking sheet that we want without pulling them all out. This shelf is designed just for that area and problem. It has a 7 1/2 tall back wall, and the sidewalls slope to a 2 1/2 front. The slanted sidewalls allows great view of the sheets or platters when the shelf is rolled out, yet gives good support to prevent the cooking sheets from tipping over or out. Comes with adjustable dividers that allow 1/4" adjustment increments. Designed for standard base cabinets.
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Kitchen Cabinet Pull Out Shelves add Convenience and Value

Cabinet Pull Out Shelves add Convenience and Value

Author: Slide Out Shelves LLC

Adding Pull Out Shelves to existing cabinets will add value to the kitchen area and possibly the entire home. Many homeowners find it difficult to organize the pantry and kitchen cabinets because these cabinets are dark deep areas and difficult to arrange by nature.

Pull out shelves can be installed in kitchen and pantry cabinets without any modifications to the cabinet itself. A custom made to fit pull out shelf will fit in the cabinet opening allowing free access to organize and store all your kitchen goods.

Pull out shelves have been around for decades. These kitchen and pantry shelves have been given many names, pull out shelves, slide out shelves, roll out shelves, shelves that slide out, slide out drawers, etc. Whatever you want to call them, the main purpose is to give access to cabinets from the outside rather than crawling inside.

Calling these shelves, drawers is a little misleading as drawers will have a facing that matches the front of the kitchen or pantry cabinet and the facing closes onto the cabinet face front. Pull out shelves are designed to be installed inside the cabinet and are covered when the cabinet door is closed. By designing your cabinets with pull out shelves you get the convenience of a drawer without the expense of removing the existing doors, modifying the cabinet frame, and adding drawer fronts. And slide out shelves are attractive enough to show visitors to your home.

Most realtors will tell you that a kitchen with pull out shelves tends to attract buyers. The kitchen remodel will add and retain the most value to any home upgrade or remodel. With pull out shelves installed, you get the value and convenience in one package.

When looking for kitchen slide out shelves keep two main things in mind, the construction of the pull out shelf and the weight capacity of the slide. Companies the cut labor costs will surface mount the bottom to the shelf. This practice was common years ago and many can remember drawers that had the bottoms sagging down that required continual maintenance. A kitchen slide out shelf should have the bottom captured with a dadoe groove that adds strength to the entire shelf. Some manufacturers cut production costs by installing slides that are not rated for the application. Drawer slides have two ratings: static and dynamic: static is the weight capacity of the slide when the drawer or shelf is sitting inside the cabinet, dynamic is the slide weight capacity when the drawer or slide is pulled out. Look for a shelf that has a rating of 100 lbs. static and 75 lbs. dynamic. Keep in mind that the weight capacity will not include the weight of the pull out shelf itself. A slide that has a rating of 75/50 works well for cutlery drawers but will break down when loaded with pots, pans, and heavy cookware.

Installing pull out shelves is not limited to the areas where there are current shelves. Most base kitchen cabinets have two shelves (the bottom of the cabinet and a shelf in the middle). Although installing pull out shelves in these two areas is the most common application, you can stack 3-4 shelves in a base cabinet if your storage needs call for it. Pantry cabinets and base kitchen cabinets can also be fitted with pilasters that allow you to add numerous pull out shelves and adjust the vertical placement of the shelves as you desire. Pilasters also allow the shelves to be moved if storage placement changes.

slideoutshelvesllc.com produces custom made to fit pull out shelves for kitchen and pantry cabinets and sells at wholesale pricing to the public. Also offering pull out organizers, pull out trash receptacles, drawer inserts, closet accessories, hardware, etc

How To Make a Pull Out Pantry

A pull out pantry is almost a necessity considering how deep and narrow most pantries are. We install pull out shelves in pantries all the time to make it convenient for homeowners to access everything easily. Occasionally we are asked to attach the door to the pull out pantry shelves so that it rolls out as one unit.

This is asked often by customers ordering pull out shelves for their own pantries through our web store http://www.slideoutshelvesllc.com

The first thing that needs to be done of course is to install the pull out shelves in the pantry. The following pictures show our double stack pull out shelves installed inside a pantry but even multiple single pull out shelves can be attached the same way.

Shelves installed inside the pantry

When installing the cabinet half of your slides, be sure the front edge of the slide is mounted as close the the outside edge as possible without protruding outside of the cabinet. This will make mounting the pantry door easier as described later. The picture shows our pull out shelves side mounted inside the pantry cabinet, but any mounting style will be acceptable. Below is a full extension slide, but the epoxy drawer slides mount the same way.

Slide attached to pantry cabinet

Once you have the cabinet part of the slides installed inside the pantry cabinet, you are ready to get the pull out shelves set to accept the pantry door.

We use double face tape to set our door placements. These square tape pads can be purchased at most hardware stores. The double faced tape will allow you to place the door squarely on the pantry cabinet before screwing the pull out shelves to the door. These pads will also allow minor adjustments in square.

Place a tape square on the bottom and top shelves as shown below


Next, clamp a cleat to the bottom of the pantry cabinet at the height you want the door bottom to be.

Set your pantry door on this cleat, square the door to the pantry cabinet and press the door against the pull out shelves. The tape will hold the door temporarily until you can attach the pull out shelves to the door permanently.

Remove the bottom cleat and carefully slide the door open. This will expose the pull out shelves attached to the pantry door.

In each inside corner of the pull out shelves install a screw through the shelf front into the back of the pantry door. Always be sure that you are putting the screw into the fat or thickest part of the door. Most panty cabinet door frames are 3/4" thick, our shelves are 1/2" thick, so we use 1" drywall screws to attach the pull out shelves to the door.



Once you have attached the bottom and top shelves to the pantry door, slide any remaining shelves against the door and attach the same way.

Now your pantry shelves are attached to the pantry door and when you pull the pantry door open or close, all the pantry shelves roll into and out of the cabinet.

Below is a picture of a base kitchen cabinet with slide out shelves attached to the door


All Pull Out Shelves shown can be purchased through our web store http://www.slideoutshelvesllc.com
They are custom made to fit existing cabinets



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Oak Pull Out Shelves Added

We have added oak pull out shelves to our line up of pull out kitchen and pantry shelves. These oak ply pull out shelves are available in widths of 6 inches to 36 inches, depths of 12 inches to 26 inches. These pull out shelves are available in standard 2 3/8 tall pull out tray for kitchen cabinets, 3 1/2 tall pull out shelves for cabinets or pull out drawer replacement, 4 7/8 tall pantry pull out shelves,6 tall pantry pull out shelves, 7 3/8 tall pantry pull out shelves, and a very deep 9 7/8 tall shelf that is ideal for pull out file drawers.

All of out made to fit pull out shelves are available with full extension drawer slides, clear coating lacquer, choices of bottom colors and can be stained

We are very excited about our new product and the response has been very positive. For years, we only produced birch pull out shelves but we kept getting inquiries about a darker pull out shelf since the birch is a white wood. We added these red oak shelves to meet those needs.

We experimented with white and red oak solid plank wood before deciding to go with the red oak ply for our roll out shelving. This gave us the two things that is important to us, strength and cost. The solid plank wood is heavier than the ply, which would take away from the weight capacity of the shelf as the slides we use are rated at 100 lbs. Also oak lumber is available in 3/4" thickness, this would reduce the storage volume in our pull out shelves. We could plane the lumber down to 1/2", but this would add costs to the final product.

We believe that we have created the ideal kitchen and pantry oak pull out shelf that will be a value added product to anyone's home. And can be installed by the average homeowner in less than five minutes.

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