Galaxy Cobblestone Base Cabinets

A white run is planned by storage. A dark one is planned by storage and by exposure, because each station produces its own mark and each has a cabinet type that copes with it better than the others. Set out the stations first and the widths will follow.

The door base does not appear on its own in that table. Where there is one, it is either under a sink or hiding a pull-out. A dark kitchen that is planned well has more drawers than doors below the counter, because a drawer front gets wiped every time it is closed and a door front mostly does not.

Size the sink base from the sink model. As a working rule, the cabinet should be about 3″ wider than the sink’s outside width: a 33″ sink goes in a 36″ base, and a 30″ sink in a 33″. Sink bases in this finish run in 3″ steps from GC SB21 at $386.75 to GC SB42 at $572.00. The 33″ and 36″ widths also come with a single false front, GC SB33SDF at $468.00 and GC SB36SDF at $490.75, the same price as the two-front versions. On a dark run that single long rail is also one less edge to catch drips.

An apron-front sink needs a farm sink base: GC FS30 at $806.00, GC FS33 at $815.75 or GC FS36 at $825.50, with the width confirmed against the sink’s drawing. For a sink set into the corner there is the diagonal sink base, GC DSB36 at $617.50.

The sink base is where a dark finish most often looks worn: pale drip lines down the door and a ring on the toe kick below it. There are three easy defences. Dry the door the same day. Put the under-sink mat from the accessories range (GC UNDER SINK MAT, $156.00) inside to catch leaks before they reach the box. And beside the dishwasher, choose a drawer bank or a pull-out rather than a door you will have open while steam comes out of the machine.

The station beside the range is where flour and grease land, and where you open storage most often with messy hands. A 36″ width is the common choice there, and this finish offers four ways to fill it. Here they are at the prices this page displays.

The door base plus roll-outs costs more than either drawer bank and is harder to use. That is why we rarely draw it beside a range. The drawer banks cost about $340 to $355 more than the plain door base, and they are worth it on a dark run for a reason unrelated to storage: a drawer front that gets wiped every time it closes stays clean without effort. Use the narrow 4-drawer banks (GC DB15-4 at $780.00, DB18-4 at $799.50) for utensils and spices on the other side of the range. The prices are what the grid showed on the review date, discount included. If they move, the order of the four options will not.

The bottom 6″ of a base run is where shoes, mops and the vacuum make contact, and it runs the whole length of the kitchen. On a painted dark run every contact shows as a pale scrape. On this stain the grain absorbs light ones, so the toe kick is one place where choosing a stain over a paint pays off every day.

Order the toe kick as a continuous run in the same finish, GC TK8 at $55.90 per 8 ft, rather than in pieces. A joint in the kick sits exactly where a mop catches. The trash pull-out is the other heavy-contact cabinet: it gets pushed shut with a knee or a foot. It belongs in a full-height door base with no drawer to catch on, GC B18FD at $373.75 with the GC TC18FHD BLUM pull-out at $734.50, or GC B15FD at $341.25 with the TC15FHD BLUM at $617.50. Both pull-outs use Blum runners. The accessories guide covers each pull-out option.

A corner cabinet is the one you look into, not at, and the natural veneer interior on every Galaxy box helps here. Behind a dark door the inside is pale, so the back of a blind corner is easier to see than the colour of the front suggests. That changes the calculation slightly toward the cheaper options.

The blind pull-out is the surprise in that table. On top of the cabinet it costs more than a lazy Susan does, so it only makes sense where the geometry rules out a Susan: a corner where one wall is short, or a 42″-plus blind run. If the corner is open on both walls, the lazy Susan is the better buy of the two.

The island is where this finish goes most often, and every face of it is on show. Treat it as three jobs. The working side takes the same drawer banks as the cooking station, and a double-door base or a specialty base (GC BMC24 at $614.25 and BMC30 at $695.50 for an under-counter microwave) fills it out.

The seating side is the knee-and-shoe side. Here the 12″-deep full-height door bases go back to back with the working run: single and double-door versions from GC B09FD-12D at $266.50 to GC B36FD-12D at $477.75. They give you shallow storage for placemats and trays without a drawer front at knee height. If the island doubles as a window seat or banquette, the drawer bench seats (GC DBS24 to DBS36, $338.00 to $425.75) are the low cabinet built for it.

The ends take stool legs and bags. Finish each one with a base end panel (GC BEP, $149.50) rather than the thinner end skin (GC SK BASE, $62.40), because a panel stands proud of the box and takes the knocks instead of the cabinet side. The skin and gable guide shows the difference, and the island clearance guide has the aisle and seating widths.

Every base arrives assembled, with a ½″ veneered plywood box, a natural wood veneer interior, ⅝″ dovetailed solid wood drawer boxes on Blum Tandem plus Blumotion full-extension runners, and Blum soft-close hinges. Soft close comes as standard. The stain is the only difference between these boxes and the same boxes in the Galaxy whites and grays, and the prices are the same too.

Settle three things before the order goes in. First, the sink model, because it sizes the sink base. Second, the swing of every single-door box at an end or corner, because the code does not record it. Third, the colour of each end panel and filler, which must match the box it touches if the kitchen is two-tone. Send the plan through the free design service for the drawn run, the box list and the quote. The finish itself is covered on the Cobblestone collection page.