Galaxy Indigo Tall Cabinets

A mudroom is hard on cabinets: wet boots, bags, a dog lead swung against a door. Navy suits the room because it hides the everyday grubbiness a white door shows at hand height. The trade-off is the one covered on the base cabinet page: chips and scuffs at floor level show pale. A classic layout is two tall cabinets with a bench between them.

The towers are shelved pantry boxes. For coats, the usual approach is hooks on the wall above the bench rather than a rail inside a cabinet. Ask your designer how the tall boxes can be fitted out if you want hanging space inside, because the catalog lists them as pantries. The 24″ depth takes bags, helmets and a vacuum. The same towers 12″ deep (GI TP241284, $1,241.50) suit a narrow back hall where 24″ would block the door.

A laundry room needs three things: somewhere to stand a mop and an ironing board, a sink, and a shelf over the machines. A navy version reads as a finished room rather than a utility space, and it hides the grey of lint and dust better than white.

• Single-door pantry at 18″ wide and 24″ deep for brooms and the board: GI TP182484 at $1,053.00, or the 15″ GI TP152484 at $897.00 where the gap is tight.
• Sink base at 30″ for a utility sink: GI SB30 at $461.50. Choose the sink first, as in the kitchen.
• A 30″ wall cabinet over the sink, GI W3030 at $383.50, and over the machines a 36″-wide box sized to clear the lids or the stacked unit, from GI W3615 at $263.25 to GI W3630 at $422.50.

Tower, sink base and one upper come to $1,898.00 before the counter. Every box ships assembled, so measure the laundry door and any turn in the hall before ordering a 24″-deep tower. The dimension checklist covers the delivery route, and the space-saving guide shows pull-outs that fit a tall box.

In a two-tone kitchen with navy lowers and light uppers, a tall pantry is both base and upper at once, so it has to take one colour or the other. Each choice has a logic.

The mistake to avoid is a navy tower that sits in the middle of a light upper run. It breaks the top line with a dark block and looks like an ordering error. If the kitchen is navy all round, the question does not arise, but the tower is then the largest navy surface in the room, so put it where the light falls on it. Order the tower’s visible sides in whichever colour it takes: a tall end skin is $169.00, or $126.75 for a 12″-deep tower.

Stainless ovens set into a navy tower look good. The cool metal against the dusky blue is a calmer contrast than stainless in white. The oven cabinets are 33″ wide and 24″ deep at 84″, 90″, 93″ and 96″ tall. The double oven runs from GI OC3384D at $1,599.00 to GI OC3396D at $1,748.50. The combo oven (oven with a microwave opening above) runs $1,677.00 to $1,836.25. The single oven runs $1,758.25 to $1,920.75, and is the most expensive of the three at every height.

Each cabinet is cut for a named appliance, so have the oven model and its cutout dimensions before the order goes in. If you would rather keep stainless low, a GI BOC30 base oven cabinet ($598.00) puts a single oven under the counter in a navy base run.

The pantry grid in one table, 12″-deep versions, at displayed prices. The 24″-deep version of each costs $26 to $36 more, with one exception: the 36″ × 93″ tower, which jumps $78.

Two things to note. At 36″ wide the 93″ tower is listed above the 96″ one ($2,470.00 against $2,314.00), and the same happens at 24″ deep ($2,548.00 against $2,343.25). Treat that as a catalog quirk and confirm it before choosing 93″. Also, two 18″ towers against one 36″ is not a fixed trade. At 84″ the pair costs more ($2,041.00 against $1,677.00), and at 90″ it still does. At 93″ and 96″ the pair is cheaper, because the wide tower jumps at those heights. Choose on use first: a pair gives two separate cupboards, one for food and one for brooms. The sizing guide matches each height to a ceiling.

A tall navy box shows its side from the floor to the ceiling, so any unfinished edge is obvious. Put a tall end skin (GI SK TALL, $169.00) on every exposed side. Where the tower meets a wall, use a tall filler (GI TF396, $84.50 for 3″ × 96″) scribed to the wall. If the tower stops short of the ceiling, crown in navy closes the top. For a more formal look, a tall pantry pilaster (GI PP-TP96, $464.75) at the front edge makes the tower look built in.

A 96″ assembled tower is the largest carton on the truck and the one most likely to be damaged when it is carried in. Measure the path into a mudroom or laundry carefully. When it arrives, check the long edges in good light, because a chip in navy on a 96″ door is hard to miss. Send the plan to the design team for a drawing in 24–48 hours. For construction and the colour itself, see the Indigo overview.