Galaxy Indigo Corner Base Cabinets

Before pricing a navy corner cabinet, work out whether the plan needs one at all. Two-tone kitchens in navy and white fall into four shapes, and in only three of them is the corner box blue.

The second row is the one we draw most for a navy kitchen: blue from the counter down, a white above, the navy grounding the room while the uppers keep it light. The third is the one that needs this page most, because the colour change happens exactly at the corner and the cabinet type decides whether it looks planned. The all-navy kitchen is rarer than the photographs suggest, and it asks more of the lighting than of the cabinet; the Galaxy Indigo collection page covers that choice as a whole.

Stand in the kitchen and look at a blind corner. Its door and drawer face along one wall. Its other end runs off behind the first cabinet on the perpendicular wall and is never seen again. Visually, then, the blind box belongs entirely to the run its door faces; the other run simply starts in front of its buried end.

That is what makes it the right cabinet when one leg of an L is navy and the other is white. Put the blind box on the navy leg, facing the navy run, in Indigo. The white run starts at the corner, with its first white cabinet standing across the hidden end. The colours meet at a single vertical line in the inside corner, the same line where two cabinet faces would meet anyway, and nothing painted in one colour ever has to share a face with the other.

Now try the same thing with an easy reach box or a lazy Susan. Both have one door set across the corner, facing neither wall; it belongs to both runs equally. In a split plan that door has to be one colour or the other, and whichever you pick, it reads as an extension of one leg that has wandered onto the other. It can work: the usual answer is to paint it the colour of the lower, darker leg so the corner reads as a weight at the bottom of the room. But if the elevation is a colour change first and a storage problem second, the blind box draws the cleaner line.

Two small parts cross the join between the colours, and both need a decision before the order goes in. The first is the filler. A blind box is normally pulled a little off the corner so doors and pulls clear each other, and a strip ripped on site closes the gap. In a single-colour kitchen nobody thinks about it. In a split plan that strip sits exactly where navy meets white, so decide on the drawing which face it lines up with and order it in that colour: GI BF3 at $26.00 if it is Indigo, or the matching 3″ filler from the Frost, Dove or Linen collection if it is white. A navy strip showing in the wrong plane is the one detail that makes a deliberate two-tone corner look like a supply mistake.

The second is the toe kick. It runs continuously under both legs and turns the corner with a miter, so the colour change has to happen somewhere along it. The two usual answers: change it at the miter, so each leg has its own kick; or run one colour under everything, usually the darker one, since a navy kick under white bases simply reads as shadow. Indigo toe kick comes in 8-foot lengths as GI TK8 at $55.90, and the listing also carries a GI TK8-3/4 at $58.50; ask your installer which thickness the job uses before ordering either.

Colour aside, the four boxes behave like the blind corner in every Galaxy finish: 34½″ high, 24″ deep, one door with a drawer over it, a ½″ veneered plywood box and Blum soft-close hinges. The first number on the label is the width tight to the corner, the second the width once the box is pulled out and the filler closes the gap. The 36/39 is $614.25 and the 39/42 is $685.75; the 42/45 and 48/51 are both $767.00, so the 48 is 6″ of extra box for nothing when the wall allows it.

The mechanical pull-outs that swing the buried end into view are listed for the two larger boxes only, handed left and right: GI BPO-BLB42/45 at $1,277.25 and GI BPO-BLB48/51 at $1,394.25. And the listing carries each box as a carcass-only loose part too: GIN BLB36/39-BO at $396.50, BLB39/42-BO at $442.00, and the two larger ones at $494.00 each under loose parts. Ask your designer what ships with a carcass-only box before relying on it; it is a replacement or special-case part, not a cheaper way to buy the finished cabinet.