Galaxy Horizon Double Oven Cabinets

Start with an honest look at the ovens. If they are relatively recent, heat evenly, have door seals in good shape and suit the way you cook, keeping them is sensible: re-housing a working pair costs a fraction of a new pair. If they are old enough that parts are hard to find, or one cavity is already unreliable, replacing them at the same time as the cabinets avoids a second, messier job later, because swapping a double oven out of a finished tower means disturbing the new trim around it.

The model and serial plate, usually visible on the frame when the lower oven door is open, tells you what you have. Write the model number down before anything else; every step below depends on it.

Each of these comes from the existing kitchen, not from a catalog, and each can stop a job if it is discovered on install day.

The first is the one to send us. With the oven model number we can confirm that the ovens suit the 33″ tower before it is ordered, and point out anything the installation guide asks the cabinet to provide. If the ovens are an unusual width or an older model with a non-standard cutout, that is the moment to find out, not when the old tower is already in a skip.

The new tower comes in 84″, 90″, 93″ and 96″. The old one may not match any of them exactly, especially if it was site-built or topped with a soffit. Choose the new height from the room, not from the old box: it should line up with the other tall cabinets and with the tops of the wall cabinets or the crown around it. If the new tower is shorter than the old one, the wall above it will need patching and painting where the old box stood; if it is taller, check it can be tilted upright under the ceiling, since a tall box needs a little more than its own height to stand up. The dimensions checklist lists the ceiling measurements to take.

One more point: changing the tower height does not by itself change where your ovens sit. The oven position is set by the cabinet design, and a taller cabinet usually adds space above the opening. If the old top oven sat at a height you liked, confirm with us where the new opening places it before ordering.

This is the sequence we recommend. It keeps the ovens safe and the time without an oven short.

1. Confirm the fit and the height with us, then order the tower with the rest of the kitchen. Galaxy delivers in about two weeks.
2. Have an electrician switch off the oven circuit at the panel and disconnect the ovens. Hard-wired appliances are not a DIY disconnection.
3. Remove the ovens with at least two people. A double wall oven is heavy, and most of the weight is at the back; take the doors off first if the installation guide allows, and protect the floor.
4. Store the ovens upright, somewhere dry, with their doors and trim kits together.
5. Remove the old tower, make good the wall and floor, and check the junction box position against the new cabinet.
6. Set, level and fix the new tower, then fit fillers, end skin and crown so the tower is finished before the ovens go back in.
7. Reinstall and reconnect the ovens (electrician again), then adjust the cabinet doors and drawers around them.

Sometimes the model number answers the question the other way. Older double wall ovens, and some made for the European market or for custom cabinetry, need openings a standard tower does not provide. When that happens there are only two honest options: replace the ovens, or build a custom opening on site that meets the old appliance’s installation guide. We will tell you which applies before anything is ordered.

What we advise against is cutting or packing out a factory cabinet to suit an appliance it was not built for. The opening, the fixing points and the clearances the oven maker requires all depend on the cabinet around the oven, and improvising them in a tall box that holds two heavy, hot appliances is the wrong place to save money.

If the ovens are being replaced, buy them before the cabinet, just as for a new kitchen. Wall ovens are sold in several nominal widths, so choose the model, download its installation guide and send us the model number; the tower is confirmed against it. Delivery timing then works in your favour, because Galaxy ships in about two weeks and new appliances can be ordered to arrive in the same window.

Kept appliances look older next to new cabinetry, and a light grey-taupe is kinder to that than a bright white. It sits closer in value to brushed steel, so a used stainless door looks less out of place in it than in a crisp white frame, and Fabuwood itself shows this finish with stainless steel. If the ovens are black or white rather than stainless, bring a photo of them when you look at a door sample ($35.00): the finish reads cooler beside black glass and warmer beside white enamel, and it is worth seeing both before deciding.

The tower’s side needs a finished surface if it ends a run: GH SK TALL at $169.00 on the cabinet skin page. Fillers between the tower and a wall or fridge are on the filler page, from $84.50 for the 3″ × 96″ tall filler. Our guide to end panels and fillers explains where each is needed.

Each is 33″ wide and ships assembled. If the ovens are being replaced after all, and one oven plus a microwave would do, the combo oven cabinet takes that pair; a single oven goes in the oven cabinet. Pantries that share the wall are on the single door and double door pantry pages. Contractors doing remodels like this regularly can join Captivating Pro for trade pricing, and anyone can send us the oven model through a free design request or by calling (609) 900-3358.