🔄 Pull-Out Shelves

Pull-Out Shelves for Existing Cabinets

Stop kneeling on the floor with a flashlight. We fit pull-out shelves into the base cabinets you already have, so the back of the cabinet comes out to you instead of you going in after it.

🔧 Retrofits into your existing cabinets
📏 Measured per opening, not off a shelf
🇺🇸 Century Components · Sugarcreek, Ohio
🍳 Your kitchen stays usable
Pull-Out Shelves
Free quote · No obligation
Priced per opening
Part of cabinet organizers · on their own or with a door project
Fits Face-frame or frameless
Slides Full-extension, soft-close
Kitchen downtime None
Series Signature · Cascade · Edge
Cabinet must be Sound and square
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The Problem

A fixed shelf wastes the back half of every cabinet

A 24-inch deep base cabinet has about two feet of storage. You use the front eight inches. Everything behind that is technically storage and practically a hiding place.

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You need a flashlight and both knees to find the stockpot.

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Pans come out in a stack because they're wedged in front of each other.

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You buy things you already own, because you can't see what's back there.

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Bending down is getting harder, and the lower cabinets are where the heavy things live.

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You've tried plastic bins from the hardware store and they tip when you pull them.

Your cabinet is a good candidate if…
✓ It's a base cabinet — a door you open with a fixed shelf behind it
✓ The bottom is flat and solid, with no swelling from an old leak
✓ The sides are square and firmly attached to the back
✓ The door opens far enough to clear the opening — hinges matter here
✓ It's deep. The deeper the cabinet, the more a pull-out gives you back
We'd talk you out of it if…
The cabinet floor is soft, swollen or sagging. Slides have to be anchored to something solid, and a particle-board bottom that's taken on water isn't it.
It's a shallow cabinet. Under about a foot deep, you can already reach everything, and the hardware costs more than the convenience is worth.
It's a blind corner. That needs a corner-specific solution, not a straight pull-out that disappears into the dead space.
What We Fit

Six kinds of pull-out shelf

All built to your opening by Century Components in Sugarcreek, Ohio, and all running on full-extension slides so the shelf clears the cabinet completely rather than stopping halfway.

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Pots & Pans Pull-Outs

A single deep shelf rated for real weight. Cast iron and stacked stockpots are heavier than people expect, and the slide has to be chosen for it.

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Two- and Three-Tier Units

Stacked shelves on one frame, so a tall cabinet stops being one cavern and becomes layers you can actually see into.

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Narrow Base Organizers

The 6- and 9-inch filler cabinet nobody knows what to do with, turned into a tall spice and oil pull-out with rails on both sides.

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Tray & Cookie Sheet Dividers

Vertical dividers on a pull-out frame, so baking sheets and cutting boards stand on edge instead of being stacked and excavated.

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Under-Sink Pull-Outs

Built around the trap and the disposal rather than pretending they aren't there. U-shaped so the plumbing passes through the middle.

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Pull-Out Cutting Boards

A solid maple board on its own slide above a drawer or bin — prep surface that appears when you want it and vanishes when you don't.

Details that get decided at the measure
Door-mounted or independent
Side-mount or bottom-mount slides
Soft-close or standard
Full-extension travel
Shelf height and spacing
Side rail height
Filler strips for face frames
Building up a soft cabinet floor
Hinge swap for wider door swing
Signature, Cascade or Edge
Weight rating for the contents
Clearance around plumbing
Straight Answers

What a pull-out actually changes

And where it costs you something, because it isn't free — you trade a little width for a lot of reach.

Factor
Pull-out shelf
Fixed shelf
Reaching the back
The back comes to you
You go to the back
Seeing what you own
Whole shelf visible at once, from above
Front row only
Usable width
Slightly narrower — the slides take some
Full cabinet width
Face-frame cabinets
Works, with filler strips to clear the frame
No hardware to clear
Heavy items down low
Slide it out, lift straight up
Bend, reach and twist
Fitting it
One or two days, kitchen stays in use
Already there
The Process

From first call to a cabinet that opens up

No demolition and no finishing work, which is why this is the least disruptive thing we do. If it's bundled with new doors, the fitting happens inside that project instead.

1
Day one
Tell Us Which Cabinets

Usually there are two or three that drive you mad. Start with those rather than trying to do the whole kitchen at once.

2
In your kitchen
Every Opening Measured

Width, depth, and how far the face frame and hinges intrude. This is where a unit that fits properly is won or lost, and it's why we don't quote from photos.

3
Your quote
Priced Per Cabinet

Each opening on its own line so you can see what each one costs and drop the ones that aren't worth it to you.

4
In the shop
Built to Your Measurements

Made in Ohio to the sizes we took, then checked in our shop before anything comes to your house.

5
Install day
Fitted One Cabinet at a Time

We empty a cabinet, fit and level the unit, and put your things back before moving to the next one. You keep cooking.

6
Before we go
Opened and Closed With You

Every unit tested loaded, soft-close adjusted, and doors realigned if the new weight has shifted anything.

On-site work
1–2
days for most kitchens
Kitchen downtime
0
days — you keep cooking
Openings measured
All
individually, never assumed
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Why we measure every opening

Cabinets that look identical rarely are. Two openings in the same run can differ by a quarter inch, and a pull-out built a quarter inch too wide doesn't go in at all. Ordering by "standard size" is how you end up with a unit shimmed crooked into a cabinet.

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units ordered to a nominal size
instead of your actual opening
What we're looking at
1
The clear opening, not the cabinet — the face frame narrows it
2
How far the hinges stick into the opening when the door is open
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Whether the cabinet floor is solid enough to anchor a slide
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Anything in the way — plumbing, a disposal, a false drawer front
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What you actually keep in there, which decides the weight rating
FAQ

Questions about pull-out shelves

Yes — that's the whole point of them. Nothing gets torn out. We measure the clear opening, order the unit to that size, and anchor it to the cabinet floor or the side walls depending on how the cabinet is built.

The one thing that has to be right is the cabinet itself. The bottom needs to be flat and solid, because a slide is only as steady as what it's screwed to.

They do, with a small adjustment. On a face-frame cabinet the opening is narrower than the box, so the unit has to clear the frame — we fit filler strips to bring the mounting surface out flush.

It means a face-frame cabinet gives up slightly more width than a frameless one. You still come out well ahead, because you gain the entire back of the cabinet.

More than most people load onto them, provided the slide was chosen for the job. That's why we ask what actually lives in the cabinet — a shelf of mixing bowls and a shelf of cast iron are very different problems.

Tell us it's the heavy pans and we'll spec the unit accordingly rather than finding out later.

A little width, yes — the slides and the frame take up some on each side. That's the honest trade.

What you gain is depth you weren't using. A deep base cabinet where you only ever reached the front eight inches becomes a cabinet where the whole two feet is in play. Nearly everyone finds that trade worth making.

Most people do. There are usually two or three cabinets that cause all the frustration, and fitting those changes the kitchen more than doing everything would.

We quote per opening so you can see what each one costs and choose. If you're already having new doors done, adding pull-outs then is the cheapest it will ever be.

Not sure which cabinets are worth it?

Raymond will walk your kitchen and tell you which openings will change your day — and which ones won't.

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