Galaxy Horizon Full Height Double Door Base Cabinets

These are the drawerless two-door boxes, FD in the code, from 24″ to 39″ in the standard 24″ depth and from 24″ to 36″ as 12″-deep units ending -12D. Every one is 34½″ high, a ½″ veneered plywood box with a natural veneer interior, two full-overlay doors on Blum soft-close hinges, delivered assembled.

The gap to the drawer versions widens fast above 30″, which is one reason these boxes turn up on islands, peninsulas and long back runs where a drawer tier is not needed. Those are also the places a countertop is most seen: an island top is looked down on from every side. Prices are our displayed figures on the review date; the drawer versions are on the double-door page.

Fabuwood published a gallery of light grey kitchens in 2024 in which this finish appears again and again, and it is the best evidence of what the maker thinks it goes with. The countertop and backsplash choices in those photographs are consistent.

• Black countertops. The strongest contrast in the set, and the one that makes the grey-taupe read lightest.
• Marble, as a backsplash, and in one kitchen a black marble backsplash.
• Glass subway tile, and plain subway tile with grey grout rather than white.
• Stainless steel appliances and surfaces, and industrial touches with them.
• Warm metals: gold hardware against the grey, and copper accents.
• A modern farmhouse version with open shelving, a farmhouse sink and wood accents.

Two other pairings come from outside that gallery. Fabuwood has shown the finish on social media with a butcher-block counter, and a homeowner writing about her own kitchen chose a granite whose veining picked up the colours in the cabinets, with a white tile backsplash. Everything else on this page is our own advice, and is labelled as such.

This finish is a light grey with soft pink and taupe undertones, and it reads warmer or cooler depending on what is around it. A countertop is the biggest thing around it. Whatever undertone the slab has, the cabinet will seem to lean the other way by contrast, or toward it by association, and a wide door-only box puts the two in direct contact with nothing between them. Our advice, by type of surface:

The pattern in that table is value as much as undertone. This stain sits in the middle of the light range, so a counter that is much lighter or much darker lets it read as a colour, and a counter of about the same lightness makes the kitchen read as one grey block. That can be what you want. It should be a choice, not a surprise.

On a drawer base, the top drawer front is a narrow band between the counter and the doors. Here the top rail of each door is directly under the counter, and what you see where they meet is the edge profile, the overhang and a line of shadow.

Counters usually overhang the face of the doors by about an inch to an inch and a half, which casts a thin shadow over the top rail. With a light counter, that shadow is the darkest line in the elevation and frames the doors neatly. With a black counter, the shadow and the counter merge, and the doors look taller. A thick mitred edge makes a heavier band over the stain; a thin eased edge lets the doors carry the look. None of that is a Fabuwood specification; it is how the elevation will read, and your fabricator sets the actual overhang.

On an island, the seating side needs a deeper overhang, and that is supported by brackets or corbels your fabricator specifies. The island clearance guide covers seating depth and aisles. The cabinets themselves do not publish a load rating for stone, and we will not invent one.

The mistake we see most with countertops is choosing from a sample chip. A four-inch square cannot show you how veining lands over a pair of 18″-wide doors, and a slab with bold movement can look calm in a chip and busy across an island. Bring a door sample to the yard. They are $35.00 on the door sample page.

1. Hold the door upright below the slab edge, the way it will sit, not flat on top of the stone.
2. Look at the whole slab and pick the part that will sit over your widest doors. Ask the fabricator to lay out the template on that area.
3. Step back to kitchen distance, about eight to ten feet. Grain and veining that fight close up often settle at that range, and the reverse.
4. Take a photo outside, in daylight, and one under the yard lights. Stone-yard lighting is often very cool and will make this stain look greyer than it will at home.
5. Bring the backsplash tile too, if you have it. The three surfaces meet in a few inches of wall.

If the stone is being bought before the cabinets arrive, the transitional kitchen guide shows several counter and tile pairings on shaker doors, and the grey shades guide places this stain against the painted greys.

Without a drawer box at the top, the whole interior height is open, which suits tall pans, a stand mixer or bulky serving pieces. A roll-out tray brings the cabinet floor into reach: GHZ ROD-B24 BLUM E at $214.50 up to GHZ ROD-B36 BLUM E at $240.50, on the roll-out page. Nothing in the catalogue rolls out of the 39″. How many shelves ship in each width, and the clear opening between the frame, are not published; ask, and we read them off the current spec sheet for your cabinet.

For the same widths with a drawer tier, go to the double-door page; for narrow door-only boxes, the full-height singles. Island ends and exposed sides take the base end panel, GH BEP at $149.50, on the decorative accessories page. The finish as a whole is on the collection page. And if you would rather see the counter, the doors and the backsplash together before buying either, the free 3D design service will draw them: a designer replies within one business day and the full design and quote follow in 24 to 48 hours. Questions by phone: (609) 900-3358.