Tempe Elite Cabinets provides professional pantry systems in Tempe, AZ for residential and commercial properties across the Salt River Valley. Pantry cabinets and storage are the highest-return square footage in a Tempe kitchen, especially in the condo stock where the entire kitchen is eight to ten feet wide with no wall left to give. Converting a hall closet into a pantry holds more food than a 36-inch tall cabinet and usually costs less than half as much. It also doesn't steal any counter.
Inside, everything below eye level becomes roll-out trays: 3/4-inch plywood bottoms, dovetailed maple sides, riding Blum full-extension slides rated at 75 to 100 pounds. Full extension is the point. A three-quarter-extension tray leaves the back six inches permanently in shadow, which is where the second jar of cumin lives. Above eye level, fixed shelves are fine and cheaper, because you're looking up at them anyway.
Depth is the number people blow. Twenty-four-inch-deep pantry shelving sounds generous and functions as a landfill; a can pushed to the back of a 24-inch shelf is gone for two years. Fourteen to sixteen inches is the sweet spot for canned and boxed goods, with one deeper shelf near the bottom for the stand mixer and the stock pot. Vertical spacing matters as much: 12 inches between shelves wastes a third of the cube for anything shorter than a cereal box, so we mix 8, 10 and 14-inch spacings and drill the rest for adjustment.
In the older Tempe condos and townhomes south toward Arizona Mills, the kitchen usually has no pantry at all, just a broom closet with one shelf and a light bulb hanging in it. That closet, fitted with door-mounted racks and five roll-outs, becomes the most useful thirty inches in the unit. In the ranches, the same trick works on the closet between the kitchen and the back door, and the door can stay exactly where it is.
A note on open shelving, which looks great in photographs. Tempe runs its dust season from mid-June through September, and a monsoon outflow puts a fine grit into a house through every gap it can find. Open pantry shelving in this town means wiping jars. Doors, or at minimum a set of glass fronts with soft-close hinges so they actually stay shut, are the practical answer here even where they'd be optional somewhere humid.
Pricing runs $900 for a set of roll-outs in an existing closet to about $4,000 for a fully built pantry with drawers and doors. Straight talk: if you already have a functioning pantry closet, spend $600 on roll-out trays and stop. The $4,000 tall cabinet is a want, not a fix, and we'd rather sell you the $600 version and have you call us about the kitchen next year.
Install is one to two days for a closet conversion, and the only real surprise is usually the door swing. If the pantry door hits the refrigerator, a pocket door or a reversed swing gets sorted before we build, not after. Interiors get finished so they wipe down, since a raw melamine edge and a leaking olive oil bottle are a bad pairing.
With 15+ years of experience, our licensed and insured team brings the right materials and equipment to every job — furniture-grade plywood boxes, solid maple dovetail drawers, Blum and Grass soft-close hardware, frameless European construction, full-overlay and inset doors, rigid thermofoil and veneer refacing — and backs the work with a written workmanship warranty. We serve Tempe and nearby communities including Scottsdale, Phoenix, Glendale, Peoria.
What We Handle
Everything our pantry systems in Tempe covers
One crew, one point of contact, and the full range of pantry systems work in Tempe, AZ. If it is on this list we do it in house rather than handing it to a subcontractor:
- pantry cabinets storage
- walk in pantry shelving
- pull out pantry shelves
- tall pantry cabinet
- kitchen pantry organization
- pantry door spice rack
- roll out drawers for cabinets
- corner pantry cabinet
- butler pantry cabinets
- pantry cabinet with drawers
- converting a closet to a pantry
Not sure which one describes your situation? Describe it in plain words and we will sort it out — or browse the rest of our Tempe services.
Materials, equipment and how we do pantry systems
The difference between pantry systems that lasts and pantry systems that gets redone in three years is almost always preparation and materials, not the finish you see on day one. We work with furniture-grade plywood boxes, solid maple dovetail drawers, Blum and Grass soft-close hardware, frameless European construction, spec them to the job instead of to the invoice, and write the material grades into the free estimate so you know exactly what you are buying.
Every Tempe job runs the same way: site walk and measurements, written scope and fixed price, protection of the surrounding area, then the work itself with a daily clean-up. 15+ years of cabinet work in the Salt River Valley means we have already met whatever your property is going to throw at us — awkward access, older construction, an HOA with opinions.
Where we do pantry systems outside Tempe
Tempe Elite Cabinets covers Tempe and the surrounding communities of the Salt River Valley. Crews run out to the same nearby cities every week, so an out-of-town job does not mean an out-of-town price.
- Pantry Systems in Scottsdale, AZ — Maricopa County, population 241,361
- Pantry Systems in Phoenix, AZ — Maricopa County, population 1,608,139
- Pantry Systems in Glendale, AZ — Maricopa County, population 248,325
- Pantry Systems in Peoria, AZ — Maricopa County, population 190,985
- Pantry Systems in Surprise, AZ — Maricopa County, population 143,148
- Pantry Systems in Goodyear, AZ — Maricopa County, population 95,294
Start on the Tempe Elite Cabinets homepage for a free estimate, or call (844) 511-2320 and describe the job.
Why Tempe Chooses Tempe Elite Cabinets
- ✓Over 15 years refacing and building cabinetry across the Salt River Valley
- ✓Refacing quoted honestly when the boxes are sound, not upsold to a teardown
- ✓Frameless European construction to recover interior width in small kitchens
- ✓Soffit removal so uppers run to the ceiling in Tempe's older ranch houses
Every pantry systems project in Tempe gets the same attention, whether it is a single room or a full commercial job. We show up on schedule, keep the site clean, and stand behind the work — the estimate is free and there is no pressure.
Ready to get started? Call (844) 511-2320 for a free pantry systems free estimate in Tempe, or request a quote and we'll get right back to you.