Galaxy Dove Side Panel Cabinets

The two platform profiles cost the same at any width and so do the two foot styles, so the totals below hold whichever letters end up on the order. The cabinet in each row is the sink base at that width where one exists and the sink-and-drawer combo where it does not.

Two things fall out of those numbers. The feet add between $165.75 and $172.25 at every width, which is within a few dollars of four loose GD TBF or GD CBF feet at $42.90 — so a code ending TF or CF is the flat platform with feet already on it, and nobody should be ordering both. And the platform shrinks as a share of the bill as the vanity grows: nearly half of the 24″ footed total, under a third at 60″. The furniture look is simply easier to justify under a double vanity than under a powder-room box.

Three things settle it. The listing images show a low frame with a shaped foot under each corner — a plinth, with nothing about it you could fasten to the side of a box. Fabuwood's own catalogue uses the word platform for these codes: VP means the Vera profile and SP the shaker one, and the closing letters name the foot — TF taper, CF cove, a bare F when the platform is flat with no foot at all. And the price tracks the trailing size code, which is a vanity width. A part that dresses the side of a cabinet would be priced by height and depth, and every bath box in this line is the same height and the same depth.

Store titles such as "Side Panel Tall" or "Side Panel Shaker" are a script reading those letters, not a description of the part. If an exposed end is what brought you here, the part for that is a finished end panel, quoted against the cabinet's height and depth, and it is not among these 42 lines — ask and we will add it to the vanity you are ordering. Our guide to end panels, scribe molding and fillers explains which of those three parts closes which gap.

Bathrooms are the one room where the floor is often whiter than the cabinets: white porcelain, a marble-look tile, a white tub apron a foot away. A toe kick sits in shadow and is never compared with any of it. A platform stands in the light, and this finish is the warm side of white, so the comparison happens. What you see is a white vanity with a softer edge. The warmth shows only where a stark blue-white tile butts directly against the plinth, and even there it reads as a choice rather than as a colour — which is the difference from the beige version of the same part, and the reason a Dove plinth stays in the white family at floor level while a Linen one does not. The Linen versus Dove comparison has the side-by-side.

Grey-veined and soft grey floors are the case this off-white handles that the beige cannot: a grey porcelain and a Dove plinth sit together without argument. The one floor that does not flatter it is a cool, bright-white tile under a 4000K downlight, where the platform drifts faintly grey. Warm the bulbs to 2700–3000K before you blame the paint. The check costs $25.00 — a door sample laid flat on the tile at night under the vanity lights, seen from the door, tells you in a minute.

The footed assemblies are listed at 5″ overall, roughly an inch of platform on a 4″ foot. Under a 34½″ box with a countertop that puts the deck close to 41″, which is a bar, not a bathroom. Which cabinet height Fabuwood means these assemblies to carry is not on any spec sheet we can cite, so we will not guess — send us the box and platform you are weighing and we will check the finished height against the spec book before anything ships.

The flat VPF and SPF platforms add about an inch, which keeps the deck where a vanity deck belongs, and at $217.75 to $321.75 they are the cheapest route we know to a stock cabinet that reads as a piece of furniture. If the height arithmetic put you off the footed codes, that is the family to ask about.

• Shaker platform, taper foot, for most rooms. It repeats the square language of the door and stays out of its way.
• Vera platform, cove foot, where the room already has molding, a framed mirror and brass on the doors. That is the painted-furniture look, and an off-white does it more convincingly than a bright white.
• If the hardware is matte black — which sits well on this finish and is risky on the beige — keep the platform shaker and the foot taper. Black pulls and a curved foot pull in opposite directions.

Related lines: the loose bun feet for a flat platform you already own, the decorative onlay that earns its place only after a vanity is standing on a plinth, and the vanities these are sized to. The rest of the range is on the vanity accessories page; the colour story in full lives on the Dove collection page.