I think since you have a face frame, pullouts would make them uselesser than without. (Don't mock my grammar!!!)

You don't need a pullout for paper towels, or hidden candy, or backup vodka. Especially with a stepstool so handy!

The broom cabinet--that COULD be a useful pullout. But for these cabinets it'll be better without them.

How long are your arms? How skinny are you? Can you get stuff from the back without it being a pullout? 28" is pretty deep! I can barely reach the back of 24" at shoulder level and I'm moderately tall and long armed. I have an 11" lower pullout which I love. Much much more useful than a cabinet would be. It has two trays and a tall back so nothing falls behind. I use it for bread, cereal and snacks.

For the brooms, you might look on the Ikeafans website for the tall pullout with pegboard. You could put pegboard at the 4"/7" mark, all the way up and all the way back, and hang brooms and the like on one side, and smaller tools on the other. It would be very cook, and definitely worth it.

If you're looking for a way to trim the budget because you're just at the end of an expensive project, go ahead and trim. You'll live. :) But, yes, pullouts are worth it if you can spend the money.

My broom closet pull-out is only 7" wide but it is full height (8' ceilings)and 24" deep. The bottom 2/3 is for broom, dust pan and mop, etc all on hooks and the top 1/3 is a shelf with a rail and I put all my cleaning supplies there. You say you don't own many platters, in an 11" wide cabinet made narrower by being inset cabinets, you won't be able to store very many - maybe 2 or 3 at the most. What about coffee pot or vases that aren't used very often, or... I bet you'll be surprised at what you will have that will fit in the space.

Mine are 9" frameless and I did almost the same as byronroad. I have 2 sections on the top - one for cookie sheets and my broiler pan, the other for large cutting boards I'm also thinking of putting a shelf at the very top of the bottom section to store those deep heavy duty aluminum foil rolls. I think there a are a lot of possibilities...

byronroad, can you post a picture of yours?

How big a face frame are we talking about here? And why would a narrow deep cabinet need a pullout any more than a wide one?

Thanks for all quick responses!

The trouble with reaching to the back of a narrow deep cabinet, fori, is that unlike with a deep wide one, you can't get your shoulder in too to reach those extra few inches, just your arm, and then your body is covering what little of the opening is there so that you can't see what you're reaching for.

There seems to be a pretty strong consensus in favor of a pull-out broom closet. I can't remember the width of the frame offhand, but subtracting even a couple inches from the 11" probably leaves the opening too small for plllog's lovely double-sided idea, I think. But I'll be sure to look up those Ikea peg-board versions again for ideas on how to configure the inside.

Perhaps I'll leave the top two with plain doors, and store platters in the highest and paper towel rolls (on their sides, so they don't end up back out of reach) in the middle. And I'll include a hook in the broom closet for one of those grabber-on-the-end-of-a-stick tools. :-)

You can add those pullouts later if you decide you need them for whatever you end up storing in there, and probably cheaper, too.

The other thing you could do, if you want a wider cabinet, is make the frame faux and attached along with the door to the pull-out. :)

Check IkeaFans...they did it in a 4" space...with 11" you should be able to get a double sided...assuming you can access both sides, that is! I.e., assuming the 11" space isn't b/w the refrigerator and a wall.

Here is a link that might be useful: Thread: 4'' Broom Closet from Ikeafans

Thanks for the link, buehl! That's exactly what I was going to search for this morning.

I do have a bit of wall on one side of the cabinet (the edge of an archway into the eating nook/butler's pantry--hence the need for the cabinet to create space for the refrigerator door swing) that would make the back third of a double-sided pull-out inaccessible from one side.

plllog, thanks for throwing out the idea of modifying the frame. I think, though, that it's time for not letting the best be the enemy of the good, and keeping it simple just to get the thing ordered. To someone who always before has had to snake a hand into a thin crack between the wall and refrigerator to grab a broom, this will feel positively luxurious, even one-sided and a couple inches narrower than might have been possible.

Thanks for all the help. This was the last cabinet detail, and the order will go in today.

Well, we're still working on getting the stain right. There never is just "one" last detail, is there?

I would make it one-sided then...but make it as wide as you can. If you have a 6" or wider opening, you might be able to also hang a swifter in there!