Galaxy Indigo Double Door Base Cabinets

Count the pieces. A two-door base has a pull or knob on each door and one on each drawer front — four on most widths. The SDF version, with a single front across the drawer tier, has three. A three-drawer bank has three, a one-door base two. Along a 12-foot navy wall built from wide boxes, that adds up to a couple of dozen pieces of metal at hand height, and every one is seen against the blue.

That count is also why it is worth deciding early. The Indigo catalog lists no knobs or pulls, so hardware is chosen and bought separately and drilled on site. Settle the metal and the sizes before the cabinets ship, and confirm the drilling positions with your installer.

Indigo is a grayed slate navy, not a bright one, and that changes how each metal behaves on it.

A common designer’s rule of thumb puts a drawer pull at roughly a third of the front’s width. The table applies it to the drawer fronts on each box — each about half the cabinet, a little under because the full-overlay front stops short of the edge. Treat the last column as a starting point to try in the hand, not a spec.

Two cautions. The drawer layout at 42″ and 48″ is worth confirming with your designer before choosing pull sizes. And consistency beats precision: one pull size across every drawer front in the run looks calmer than sizes graded to each width, so many kitchens pick the length that suits the most common front and use it everywhere. Door pulls can be shorter than drawer pulls, or knobs, as long as the metal is the same.

Galaxy drawer fronts are five-piece recessed-panel fronts, the same shaker frame as the doors, so a drawer pull has two sensible homes: centred on the front as a whole, or centred on the top rail. Centred on the front is the usual choice and looks balanced on the shallow fronts of a wide box. The rail position suits a longer bar and keeps the fixing out of the recessed panel.

On the doors, the pull goes vertically on the stile away from the hinge, near the top corner, since a base door is opened from above. Whatever the positions, make a drilling template and use it on every box. On navy a bright metal makes misalignment obvious, and it is the kind of fault nobody notices until the whole run is finished.

GI B33SDF and GI B36SDF replace the two drawer fronts with one, at the same price as the standard box — $633.75 and $676.00. On navy the reason to take it is the hardware. A single front takes a single long bar, centred, and a 12″ brass bar on a 36″ navy front is the most jewellery-like thing a base run can carry; it looks intended in a way two short pulls on split fronts do not.

It is also one less piece of metal to line up, and the line matters: on a saturated colour, a pull that sits a quarter-inch off its neighbour is visible from the doorway. Where the SDF box sits between drawer banks, set its pull height to match the top drawer pulls on either side. The three-drawer banks are where those neighbours live.

Hardware on the navy boxes is small, but it is repeated two dozen times, so it sets the key for every other metal in the kitchen. Pick it before the faucet and the pendants, not after.

Choose brass and the room wants warmth around it: uppers or a perimeter in Linen or Dove, a white marble-look quartz with soft veining, white oak somewhere, and a brass or neutral faucet. Choose nickel and the room can stay cool: Frost uppers, gray-veined quartz, stainless everything. Mixing is fine in pairs — brass on the cabinets with a stainless range is ordinary and looks good — but three different metals at hand height reads as unplanned.

Whatever you pick, look at it on the door. The Indigo door sample is $35.00; hold the actual pull against it in the kitchen, in daylight and at night. The countertop and backsplash matching guide covers the slab side of the same decision.

Narrower than 27″ with a drawer is the single door page; the same widths without a drawer tier are on the full-height double page; the rest of the finish is on the collection page.