I am currently designing our kitchen and part of the design includes 2 tall (but norrow) pull-out pantries. Given our kitchen size this is the most efficient use of space for us.

I am not a carpenter though so I would like to ask some feedback / advice on my design - specifically relating to

• the material choices (whether or not it will be able to hold the weight)

• ease of use (will we be able to actually open the pantries easily)

The material choices

For the shell / carcass of the pantries I am thinking of using 16mm plywood. I am not sure though if this will be strong enough to hold the weight of the pantry drawer and all the food / whatever else we decide to put in there.

For the drawer I am currently planning on using 50mm x 5mm aluminium angle- and T-Bars. 5mm x 50mm flat bars will be used to mount the slides.

For the drawer slides - I am thinking of using 6 x 32" Accuride slides (model no DZ9301E)

Ease of use

Using Fusion 360's physical material properties - it estimates the weight of the drawer around 90kg (with no load). I have no experience with the DZ9301E slides so I have no idea how smoothly they open. I am a bit worried that the drawer will feel very heavy to open and close. Changing the material to steel increases the drawer weight to 260kg.

The design can be seen here (I have included a render of the kitchen to give a better idea of scale). The units in the first image is in cm.

https://imgur.com/a/guSDI4s