Galaxy Dove 3 Drawer Base Cabinets

Take the measurements off the cabinet coming out, not off a plan. Every base in this finish is 34½″ high and 24″ deep, framed and full-overlay, and the widths step in threes — so the swap is clean when the old box was built to the same grid, and it is a filler-and-scribe job when it was not.

1. Height, floor to the top of the old box: 34½″ means the new one meets the counter without shimming. Anything else and the counter line steps.
2. Depth, wall to face frame: 24″. Older kitchens sometimes sit on shallower boxes, and a deeper new one pushes the counter overhang out.
3. Width, stile to stile of the box itself, not door edge to door edge: an opening that measures 30¼″ takes GD DB30 and a sliver of filler; one that measures 32″ takes GD DB30 and a 3″ base filler, GD BF3 at $26.00, trimmed to the gap — the filler gets cut, never the cabinet, and a cabinet never goes into an opening narrower than itself.
4. Overlay: this is a full-overlay door with a five-piece recessed panel. Dropped into a partial-overlay run, the new fronts cover the frame where the old ones showed it, and that difference registers before the colour does. Our overlay guide shows the three styles side by side.

One bank in place of one door box, grouped by the openings they usually fill. Displayed prices; the filler, toe kick and labour are extra and covered below the table.

Against the door base that would otherwise go in the same hole, the bank adds between $234.00 at 24″ and $354.25 at 36″ — the price of three dovetailed drawers and six runners the door box does not carry. Spend it where you stand: the prep counter first, the range flank second, the far end of the run never. The add-ons for a one-box swap are small: GD BF3 at $26.00 or GD BF6 at $43.55 if the opening is off-grid, GD TK8 at $55.90 for 8 ft of toe kick if the existing kick board does not survive being cut, and the GDV touch-up kit at $62.40 for the cut edge of a scribed filler.

Dove is Fabuwood’s signature off-white — a soft white with a gentle warm undertone that still counts as white on its own — which is exactly why people shopping for one replacement cabinet land on it: the kitchen they own is some other maker’s antique white, cream or ivory, and they want a bank that disappears into it. It will not. Off-whites from two factories are never the same off-white, and a near-miss beside an old door reads as a mistake in a way a real contrast never does.

So the swap has three honest versions. Match exactly, which only works if the run is already Dove — and even then compare the sample against a door that has lived beside the window, because years of daylight can shift any painted finish. Replace all the bases and keep the uppers, which turns the job into a deliberate two-tone: off-white below is a good look under stained wood or a true colour, and a poor one under a bright white, where it just reads as the warmer of two whites. Or replace one box and let it be a feature — in which case pick a finish that is obviously different, not this one.

If the existing kitchen leans beige rather than white, read the Linen-versus-Dove comparison before the sample goes on order; you may be matching the wrong one of the two.

The box going in is ½″ veneered plywood with a natural wood veneer interior, and each drawer is a ⅝″ solid wood box dovetailed at the corners on Blum Tandem plus Blumotion full-extension runners. Pull one out and you see pale wood and a soft-close runner, not painted particleboard — which is what makes a one-box swap dangerous in an older kitchen. Once the prep drawer glides clear of the face frame, the door base beside it, with its half-depth shelf and the front row hiding the back row, starts to look like what it is.

That is the case for swapping two or three boxes rather than one — the prep counter, the range flank, the plate drawer. The 18″ is the narrowest that takes a dinner plate flat — roughly 13″ inside by our tape — and the 27″ and 30″ take two stacks. Factory trays drop into the shallow top tier: GD CD-15/18 at $201.50, GD CD-21/24 at $273.00, GD CD-27/30 at $399.75 and GD CD-33/36 at $526.50, and the GD DCD BLUM series, $354.25 for the 15″ up to $676.00 for the 36″, is a second sliding tray on its own runners inside that top drawer. The lower two tiers never need one; the full list is on the accessories page.

Often, and it is the question that decides whether this is a weekend job or a project. A laminate or wood top can be lifted or supported while the old box comes out and the new one goes in. A stone top can too, but only with the counter supported across the gap and the person who installed it in the loop — a 30″ span of quartz with nothing under it is a crack waiting for a knee. The cabinet is the cheap part; do not save on the support.

The sequence: doors and drawers off the old box, screws out of the neighbours and the wall, box out, floor checked — a run set on the subfloor before the tile went down leaves the new box lower by the flooring thickness, so shim it — new box in, levelled to the counter, screwed to its neighbours through the face frame, then the toe kick. The end panel and filler guide covers the scribe if the opening is not square, and the pre-assembled buying guide covers what arrives in the carton — for Galaxy, a finished cabinet with the drawers fitted and the runners adjusted, 7 days to 3 weeks after the order.

If the counter is coming off anyway, the calculation flips: replacing the whole base run in this finish and keeping the uppers is priced from the base cabinet page, and the design service will draw the run from your measurements; the full Dove collection has the uppers if the plan grows.