Custom Roll-Out Shelves for Englewood Homes

One deep cabinet, fully usable top to back — the kind of gain that matters most in a compact kitchen

Englewood has a lot of houses that were built to last but weren’t built with modern kitchen storage in mind. Mid-century ranches, older bungalows near Broadway, brick homes with cabinets that are solid as anything but deep and dark inside. You lose things back there. The pots you never use migrate to the front, the ones you need every night end up buried, and reaching the back means clearing everything out first. Roll-out shelves solve that by putting the whole cabinet on slides so it comes to you.

We’re Roll ’em Out Shelves — a family-owned Colorado company that’s been building custom roll-outs for more than 20 years. Joyce and Brent do the in-home measuring and their experienced team manage the building and installing. Since family owned business is based in Brighton, Englewood’s an easy trip for us, and it’s a town where the housing stock is a great match for what we do.

What You’re Actually Getting

A roll-out shelf is a custom-built shelf mounted on full-extension metal slides that pulls straight out of the cabinet you already have. You keep your cabinets, your doors, your countertops — everything. We just build a shelf sized to the exact inside dimensions of each cabinet and drop it in on slides rated to hold up to 100 pounds. The shelf glides out smooth and quiet, all the way, so nothing stays stranded in the back.

The shelves are handcrafted from 9-ply Baltic birch plywood. That’s real furniture-grade material — it holds up under a load of canned goods or a stack of cast iron and keeps sliding true for years. This matters more in older Englewood homes than people expect, because the original cabinets are often built deep, and a flimsy shelf loaded up and pulled out daily won’t survive. Ours will.

And it’s not just the kitchen. We build roll-outs for bathroom vanities, pantries, laundry rooms, and garages. In a lot of Englewood’s smaller older homes, storage is at a premium, so getting every usable inch out of a bathroom vanity or a shallow pantry actually makes a real difference in how the house lives day to day.

Why Roll-Outs Fit Englewood Homes

A few things about this area shape our advice.

Under-sink roll-out drawers built around the pipes — turning wasted vanity space into real storage

The older housing stock is the big one. Homes built in the ’40s through the ’70s — which is a big chunk of Englewood — typically have well-made cabinet boxes that are worth keeping and not worth the cost of ripping out. That’s exactly when roll-outs make the most sense: you upgrade the function without touching the structure. If your cabinets are sound, we can almost certainly add roll-outs to them, including the tricky under-sink space where plumbing usually kills the storage. We build those around the pipes.

Smaller footprints are the other factor. A lot of Englewood kitchens aren’t huge, so every cabinet has to pull its weight. When you can’t reach the back third of a cabinet, you’ve effectively lost a third of your storage — in a compact kitchen that stings. Roll-outs give you that space back without adding a single square foot. For the deep blind corner cabinets some of these homes have, we usually recommend a half-moon lazy Susan sized to your cabinet, because that’s the design built to pull storage out of a corner you otherwise can’t use.

There’s also the aging-in-place angle, which comes up a lot in Englewood’s established neighborhoods where people have lived for decades and plan to stay. Not having to kneel on a hard floor and dig through a bottom cabinet is a genuine quality-of-life change. One customer who’d had two back surgeries told us leaning over just wasn’t happening anymore — she tried four shelves first, then had us finish the whole kitchen a week later.

How It Works

First step is a free in-home consultation. No deposit, no obligation, no pressure. Joyce and Brent come to your Englewood home, look at your real cabinets, and hear what’s actually bugging you. Then you get an itemized quote, cabinet by cabinet, so you can do the whole kitchen or start with the two or three cabinets that drive you the craziest and add more later when it suits your budget.

We measure exactly, build your shelves in Brighton, and most installs happen about two weeks after the consultation. During the busy spring and summer months it can stretch to three. Installation is fast and tidy — Brent does most of them himself — and we clean up after ourselves.

Everything comes with a lifetime warranty. If the spacing turns out wrong once you’ve lived with it a while — you want a shelf raised to fit the stand mixer — we come back and adjust it at no charge. You don’t always know how you’ll use a cabinet until it’s in, and that’s fine.

Why People Choose Us

No franchise, no big-box crew, no salesperson. The owners are the ones who measure, build, and install your shelves. We don’t use subcontractors, so the people you meet at the consultation are the same people who show up on install day.

We’ve been doing this since 2002, we carry an A+ rating with the Denver/Boulder Better Business Bureau, and every shelf is built right here in Colorado from 9-ply Baltic birch. Englewood sits comfortably inside the Front Range area we cover out of Brighton. If you’re unsure whether we reach your block, just call and we’ll tell you straight.

Questions Englewood Homeowners Ask

Will roll-outs work in an older home with original cabinets?

Usually, yes — and older homes are honestly some of our best candidates. The cabinet boxes in Englewood’s mid-century and pre-war homes are often built more solidly than what goes into new construction, which means they’re a great foundation for roll-outs. We build each shelf to the exact interior of your cabinet, so even if the openings are an odd size or the cabinet’s not perfectly square (common in older homes that have settled), we measure and fit accordingly. The one thing we check for is whether the box itself is sound. If it is, we can almost always add roll-outs without any modification to the cabinet face.

My kitchen is small — will I lose storage space to the slides?

No. That’s a fair worry, but roll-outs are designed to maximize the usable space you’ve got, not shrink it. Because we custom-measure and build each shelf, we account for the slide hardware and still give you a shelf that uses nearly the full cabinet interior. What you gain is access to the back third of every cabinet that used to be dead space. In a compact Englewood kitchen, that’s a meaningful jump in what you can actually store and reach — it tends to feel like you added a cabinet when you really just made your existing ones work.

Can you do the cabinet under my bathroom sink?

Yes, and it’s one of the most useful spots in a smaller home. The area under a sink is usually wasted because the plumbing gets in the way and you can’t stack anything around it. We build custom roll-out drawers designed to fit around the pipes, so that awkward space finally holds cleaning supplies, extra toiletries, whatever you need. It comes out to you instead of you crouching down and reaching blindly past the trap. We’ll look at your specific vanity during the consultation and tell you what’s possible.

How long does the whole thing take?

From consultation to installed shelves is usually about two weeks, though it can run to three during the busy spring and summer stretch. The consultation itself takes under an hour — we measure, talk through what you want, and give you the quote. Then we build in our Brighton shop and come back to install, which for most kitchens is a single visit that’s clean and quick. You’re not living in a construction zone; there’s no demolition, no cabinet replacement, just the shelves going in.

Let’s Make Your Cabinets Easier to Live With

If you’re done losing things in the back of your Englewood cabinets, we can fix that. Call Roll ’em Out Shelves at 303-475-9601 or book your free in-home consultation. Joyce and Brent will come measure and show you exactly what your cabinets can do — and you’ll usually have your roll-outs installed within about two weeks. Colorado-built, lifetime warranty, no gimmicks.