Galaxy Horizon Easy Reach Base Cabinets

Along a straight run a countertop is about two feet deep, and an adult can reach the backsplash without stretching. At an inside corner the two runs overlap, and the far corner of the worktop sits well beyond comfortable reach from anywhere you can stand. The diagonal box underneath does nothing to change that: its door faces you square-on, but the counter above it is still the same deep square.

That depth is the reason corners collect clutter. Anything pushed back there is out of the way and out of mind, so things drift into it and stay. The fix is not a different cabinet. It is to give the corner a job that suits deep, rarely-reached surface: something tall that stands at the back, is plugged in permanently and is used where it stands. Put a job there, and the storage under it follows.

These are the four uses we see work, with what lives on the counter, what the box below should hold, and what to tell the electrician before the walls close. This is our planning advice; the cabinet listing publishes neither the shelf spacing nor the door opening, so confirm those against the appliance before you commit.

Pick one. A corner asked to be both coffee station and mail tray becomes neither. And whatever sits there, check the wall cabinet above it: a tall appliance at the back of the corner needs clearance under whatever hangs there, and steam from a kettle or a coffee machine should not be venting straight into the underside of an upper.

This is where the diagonal box earns its price over a blind corner. It opens its whole footprint when the door swings, with fixed shelves running into the corner and nothing that turns or slides. A stand mixer, a stack of mixing bowls or a bin of flour can live directly below the spot where they are used, and nothing has to be carried across the kitchen. For a heavy appliance, that short trip is the whole point.

Two cautions from experience. Keep the heaviest item on the floor of the box rather than the shelf, so it slides out at knee height instead of being lifted from waist height out of a deep corner. And measure the appliance against the door opening before you plan around it: the angled door is narrower than the footprint, and a stand mixer that fits the box does not always fit through the door. The listing does not give the clear opening, so ask us for it with the model number in hand.

Our guide to types of base cabinets shows this box beside the blind and rotating corners, and the space-saving guide covers risers and bins for the back of a deep shelf.

The corner shows more uninterrupted countertop than anywhere else in an L, so it is where the slab is judged. It is also, in many kitchens, where a fabricator puts a seam. Ask where the seam will fall before you fall in love with a heavily veined stone.

On colour, this finish gives you more room than most, and the pairings Fabuwood itself photographs with it are a useful short list: black countertops, marble, a marble backsplash and a black marble one, stainless steel, and gold or copper accents. One homeowner with this stain chose a granite whose veining picked up the cabinet colours. The one thing to do before choosing is to hold the door sample flat against the actual slab, at the corner, at two times of day. A kitchen designer who sells this finish says it reads warm or cool depending on the furnishings around it, and the countertop is the largest of those furnishings. A warm cream stone will pull it towards taupe; a cool white will pull it towards grey.

The door samples page has the $35.00 sample, and our grey cabinets guide covers undertones in general.

The two boxes are $9.75 apart, so choose by the wall, not the price. The ERB33 needs 33″ along each wall from the inside corner and the ERB36 needs 36″; both are 34½″ high. On a short leg, the ERB33 leaves three more inches for the cabinet beside it; on a long one, the ERB36 gives a wider door and a deeper corner counter to put a station on. Carcass-only versions sit under loose parts at $539.50 and $546.00, for a job that hangs its own doors; confirm what ships in that version first.

Alongside the box: GH TK8 toe kick at $55.90 per eight feet, which has to turn two 45° angles at the front of this cabinet rather than one square corner, and a GH TKC cap at $7.80 where the run ends. A $62.40 Touch Up Kit belongs on the same order, since a stain cannot be sprayed from a can and the kit is its only repair. Against the rotating corner, the lazy Susan LSB33 at $1,030.25 is $191.75 more than the ERB33, and the blind corner boxes start lower but hide part of themselves.

Send us both wall lengths and say which station you want the corner to be, and the free design service will draw the box, the upper above it and the outlet position together. A designer replies within one business day, and the full 3D design with a quote follows within 24 to 48 hours. Every other base in this stain is under base cabinets, the whole finish is on the collection page, and (609) 900-3358 reaches us if you would rather talk it through.