Galaxy Indigo Specialty Base Cabinets

Indigo is a flat, opaque paint in a mid-dark slate navy. Its behaviour sits between a white like Frost and a near-black like Pitch Black, and it is not the same as either. Here is what each common mark does on the two.

So the honest answer to whether navy cabinets show fingerprints is: less than white, but they show dust and light marks more. The cleaning is different rather than greater. A white kitchen needs its handles wiped; a navy one needs its edges dusted.

A microwave in a base cabinet sits at waist height, framed by paint on three sides. Food comes out of it hot and sometimes dripping, and the path from the bay to the counter passes straight over the drawer below. Crumbs collect on the bay floor and on the top edge of that drawer. Children use it, which means fingerprints low down. And the cabinet sits where people walk, so bags and shoes graze its base.

Two small habits keep it looking new: a dry wipe of the bay lip and the drawer top when you wipe the counter, and a mat or tray on the bay floor to catch drips. The cabinet care guide has the right cleaners for painted doors; avoid abrasive pads and harsh cleaners, which can leave a dull patch that shows on a saturated colour.

Both bays are standard base boxes, 24″ deep and 34½″ high, in 24″ and 30″ widths, with an open bay that Fabuwood sizes for a countertop microwave or a warming drawer and storage underneath. The bay opening is not on the listing; get it from your designer and check it against the appliance’s installation sheet, including the air gaps it needs. At an exposed run end, the matching GI SK MC end skin is $50.05 from decorative accessories. Both are also listed carcass-only, GIN BMC24-BO at $396.50 and BMC30-BO at $448.50; ask what ships with them.

Two neighbours are worth knowing. GI BOC30, a 30″ base oven cabinet at $598.00, sits in the same base listing; its exact use and opening are not described there, so confirm the oven model it suits before designing around it. And if the microwave belongs higher up, the wall microwave cabinets in this finish run from $708.50 to $773.50 depending on height.

Three more odd boxes in Indigo sit under plain base cabinets rather than here. GI KD30, $172.25, is a shallow knee drawer that spans the open space under a desk or vanity top. GI FD18, $559.00, is a desk-height file drawer base. Together they make a navy desk run, which in a home office reads less like kitchen cabinetry and more like a library. GI BSS3, $2,021.50, is described as a base with its accessories installed at the factory; its width and inserts are not on the listing, so confirm both with your designer before it goes on a quote.

Every drawer among them uses the same ⅝″ solid-wood dovetail box and Blum soft-close glides as the kitchen bases. For the corner boxes, the angled ends and the bench seats in this navy, see the blind corner, return angle and bench seat pages, or the whole Galaxy Indigo collection.