Sapphire Rollouts Kitchen Island Pull-Outs

A dead island overhang in Menifee turned into a bank of custom cabinets with a trash and recycling pull-out and a tall jar pull-out, plus two swinging-door cabinets converted into deep roll-out drawers, all color-matched to the existing kitchen.

This Menifee Ranch kitchen had the island most early-2000s production homes came with: swinging doors and adjustable shelves. A handmade walnut butcher block top had been added at some point, creating a big overhang meant for eat-in seating. Nobody ever sat there. What the household actually needed was storage, starting with a real home for trash and recycling and somewhere organized for jars.

The fix was to turn the dead overhang into a bank of custom cabinets with pull-outs everywhere they made sense: a Rev-A-Shelf trash and recycling pull-out and a tall, narrow tiered pull-out for jars. On the other side of the island, two swinging-door cabinets became deep roll-out drawers with matching fronts, so reaching the pots no longer means kneeling down and digging past the front row.

Everything had to look like it came with the house. You can't pull a custom color off a fan deck, so the crew borrowed one of the homeowner's cabinet doors, had the paint matched to it, and put the door back. Every new cabinet was built with matching doors and finished off site, so there was no painting in her home.

Because every piece was drawn by hand first, then built and finished in the shop, install day was nothing but install. The crew showed up with everything built, painted and ready, and was done in about six hours.

The one surprise was under the island. Whoever installed the countertop had cut into the floor to set its support legs, and the new toe kicks couldn't cover the cutout. The homeowner had spare LVP in the garage, so the crew cut it, matched the pattern piece by piece and glued it down. You can't tell it was ever patched.