Surely there are less expensive kitchen drawers!

February 28, 2012 7:33 AM

I'm trying to add drawers to my inconveniently deep kitchen cabinets. After hours of searching online, I finally found some that matched my desired dimensions, and look sturdy.

These are perfect:big one, small one, medium one. However, before committing to a purchase, I would like to know I've found the best price. Now my google failures are really apparent. Can you recommend similar products at a lower price? Or perhaps different sources for the same product? I'm open to alternate suggestions to solve my deep-cabinet problem, as well.

posted by purpletangerine to Home & Garden (6 answers total)

Those appear designed to be screwed to the bottom of the cabinet, so you get one pullout per cab. Are you okay with that?
posted by jon1270 at 7:37 AM on February 28, 2012

Best answer: Here they are at The Container Store for lots less money.

I personally have these in my kitchen drawers and they are AWESOME. Very heavy duty/high quality. I loooooove them!!!
posted by pupstocks at 7:43 AM on February 28, 2012 [1 favorite]

Best answer: I also have some of these elfa ones. They're also great. The chrome kind are a lot heavier and good for super heavy pots & pans, appliances, etc. I keep smaller pots and pans in my elfa ones. They come with or without liners and in wire or mesh.

Your deep cabinets will accomodate the regular-sized elfa drawers, but you can also get cabinet-sized ones for less-deep cabinets.

These items have changed my life in many a kitchen!
posted by pupstocks at 7:46 AM on February 28, 2012 [1 favorite]

Sigh. In my excitement, I accidentally said "drawers" when I meant "cabinets" in my first post. Feel free to memail me if you have more Qs. I love talking kitchen organization!
posted by pupstocks at 7:47 AM on February 28, 2012

I purchased something similar from one of the big box hardware places, except mine was a double-decker (two slide-out shelves). On the whole, it's a good solution, although it's not the most efficient use of space (the framework on the sides gets in the way of pot handles and stuff).

If I were to do it again, I'd just order custom*, low-slung drawers (sans faces) and slider hardware. Perhaps slightly more costly, but if you measure right and can handle mounting the hardware, it's a more elegant fix.


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*Such as from here, where I ordered custom drawers, cabinet doors, and drawer faces for the kitchen refresh we did last, last spring.
posted by notyou at 8:26 AM on February 28, 2012

I put these Rev-A-Shelf's in my sisters cabinets, she loves them. I spent a little more at Lowes because they had full extension sliders.
posted by Marky at 8:43 AM on February 28, 2012