Galaxy Horizon Lazy Susan Base Cabinets

A turntable has one real advantage over every other corner: whatever you want can be brought to the front by turning, without kneeling and without reaching past something else. That suits things you want often and in small quantities, which is a fair description of most of a pantry. It also sits beside the range and the prep counter in most L-shaped plans, which is where the oil, salt, stock and tinned tomatoes are wanted.

What it does badly is volume. A round shelf in a square box leaves the four corners of the carcass empty, and it does not take tall boxes, big bags or anything stacked. A family that buys cereal by the multipack, flour by the ten-pound bag or water by the case will fill it in one shop. That is not a fault of the cabinet. It is the difference between a corner and a pantry, and it is worth knowing before the corner is asked to be one.

If the plan has a spare stretch of wall, the corner money could go into a tall pantry instead, with a plainer box in the corner. Here is what each option costs in this finish, at the displayed prices on the review date. Heights are the 84″ versions; the 90″, 93″ and 96″ pantries cost more.

Two readings of that table matter. The 18″ single-door pantry costs $22.75 more than the LSB33 and stacks shelves from the floor to 84″, where every shelf of the turntable sits below the counter. As bulk storage, the tall cabinet wins easily. But it needs a clear stretch of straight wall, and the corner still has to be closed with something. A blind corner from $614.25 or an easy reach box from $838.50 does that job for less than the turntable. The true comparison is therefore corner plus pantry against a turntable alone, and only your wall lengths can settle it. Pantries in this stain are under single-door pantry and double-door pantry.

If the corner is going to be the food store, set it up like one. What works, from customers who have lived with it:

• Round and wedge-shaped containers, not square ones. A square tub on a circular shelf wastes the gap at each corner and catches the door frame as it turns. Decant rice, pasta, oats and sugar into round canisters and the shelf holds noticeably more.
• Cooking things on the upper level, closest to the range: oil, vinegar, stock, salt, tins you open weekly. Heavy and bulk things on the lower level, where a dropped jar has less far to fall.
• Labels on the front face of the container, not the lid. You see the shelf from the side as it turns, never from above.
• One category per sector, so a quarter-turn is a decision. Baking in one quarter, tins in the next, breakfast in the third.
• Rotate stock with the shelf. New tins go in at the door; the ones already there get turned to the front. The shelf does the first-in, first-out for you if you let it.
• Stand bottles in a shallow tray. A leaking oil bottle on a turning shelf spreads itself around the whole circle before anyone notices.

On load: the listing does not publish a weight rating for the shelves, or their diameter. Ask us before the case of tinned tomatoes goes on the top level. If a shelf is ever damaged, the stocked replacements are AS-LSB33 at $146.25 and AS-LSB36 at $204.75 under loose parts.

A pantry door beside the range is opened mid-recipe, which means with floury, buttery or oily fingers, dozens of times a week. That is the one point on this page where the finish matters. The inside of the box is a natural wood-veneer interior, the same in every Galaxy colour; the door and face frame carry the stain, and a stain is cared for differently from a paint.

Fabuwood’s care guidance is short and worth keeping: blot a spill rather than wiping it across the grain, use mild cleaners only, and never spray cleaner directly onto the wood; put it on the cloth. On a grained, grey-taupe surface, fingermarks near the pull are less obvious than on a flat white paint, which is a mercy here, but the grease is still there and still collects dust. A weekly wipe of the door edge and the area round the knob, with a damp cloth and a drop of washing-up liquid, keeps it from building. If the corner of the door gets knocked by a pan, the stain’s repair is the $62.40 Touch Up Kit, a stick and marker rather than a spray can, and it is worth having before it is needed. Our cabinet care guide has the full routine.

Skip the turntable as your pantry if the household shops in bulk, if the kitchen has an unbroken stretch of wall of 18″ or more away from the work triangle, or if the corner is on the far side of the kitchen from the range. In each case a tall pantry does the storage better, and the corner can be closed more cheaply.

Have both if the kitchen is used hard. The rotating corner then becomes the cook’s cupboard, the dozen things used during cooking, within one step of the hob, and the tall pantry holds the stock. That split is how a lot of well-run kitchens actually work, and it takes pressure off the turntable, which lasts longer when it is not loaded to the limit. Restrictor clips, if the shelves ever start to drift, are $3.90 a pair under loose parts.

Both sizes are 34½″ high and take the same toe kick as the rest of the run: GH TK8 at $55.90 per eight feet. Wall and tall sizes in the stain are compared in our wall and tall cabinets guide.

Food storage is best decided on the drawing, not after the delivery. Tell the free design service whether you have a pantry now and how you shop, and the designer will place the turntable, a tall pantry or both. You get a reply within one business day and the full design with a quote within 24 to 48 hours. The rest of the stain is on the collection page, every base is under base cabinets, and (609) 900-3358 is the quickest way to ask about shelf load before you order.