Galaxy Linen 3 Drawer Base Cabinets

Start from the box. Every Fabuwood base in the finish is 34½″ high with a 4½″ toe kick, so about 30″ of front is available for drawers. The published spec sheet does not give the individual front heights or the clear height inside each drawer, so the figures below are measured off our own display cabinets and rounded; if one particular item is the reason you are buying, confirm on a sample.

The uneven split is the reason to buy this over the two-drawer bank: a real utensil tier without giving up the depth underneath. The cost is about two inches of clear height per deep drawer, which is the difference between a Dutch oven and a stockpot.

Subtract about five inches from the nominal width for the inside of the drawer — the face frame and runners take the rest — then walk through what has to lie flat in each tier. A drawer is only a good drawer when nothing in it is stacked at an angle.

• Dinner plates, 10½″ to 11″ across, need about 12″ inside — an 18″ box minimum, GL DB18 at $646.75. In a 15″ box they tilt.
• A half-sheet pan, 18″ × 13″, lies flat with about 16″ inside. That is the 21″ box, GL DB21 at $672.75, or wider.
• Two rows of plates side by side want 20″ or more inside — the 27″ (GL DB27, $773.50) or 30″ (GL DB30, $845.00).
• A cutlery tray in the top tier is sized to the cabinet, and the smallest one made in this finish fits the 15″ box. Nothing is made for the 12″.

Then the wide-versus-pair question — most people arrive at it as “one 36 inch three-drawer base, or two 18s” — which the catalog answers with a number. One GL DB36 is $1,030.25; two GL DB18 come to $1,293.50. The single box is $263.25 cheaper and gives three drawers nearly 31″ inside; the pair gives six fronts, two zones, and a stile down the middle. Buy wide for plates and pots, buy the pair when prep and baking should stay apart.

Buyers compare a drawer base to a door base at the same width and stop there. Cost per foot of run is the more useful figure, because that is how the wall gets priced, and it shows what the width-for-width comparison hides: the drawer premium shrinks as the box gets wider.

Read down the drawer column: a foot of 12″ bank costs nearly twice a foot of 30″ bank, because a narrow box carries the same three drawers, six runners and face frame across fewer inches. That is the honest case against the 12″ unit — not a bad cabinet, but the most expensive foot of base in the line, holding the least, and $253.50 more than the GL B12 door box that fills the same foot with a drawer over a shelf.

Read across: at 24″ and up, drawers run about $115 a foot over doors — roughly $940 on eight feet of wall. The single-door and double-door pages cover where a shelf does the job for less.

Four 36″ boxes make a twelve-foot run. The same wall, sink in the same place, drawer count varied, priced from the live list; counter, panels and sink are extra.

• All drawers except the sink: GL SB36 + GL DB36 + GL DB36 + GL DB36 — $3,581.50. Every foot that is not plumbing slides out.
• Mixed, the run we would draw: GL SB36 + GL DB36 + GL B36 + GL DB36 — $3,227.25. Drawers flank the sink and the prep zone; the door box at the far end takes the small appliances and the things you open monthly.
• All doors: GL SB36 + GL B36 + GL B36 + GL B36 — $2,518.75. The cheapest wall, and the one where the back foot of every cabinet goes unused.

The gap between the mixed run and the all-drawer run is $354.25, and between mixed and all-doors is $708.50. Put the second number next to a pot drawer under the cooktop at $835.25 and the shape of a sensible base budget appears: drawers where you stand, doors where you do not, one deep bank for the pots.

What that does to a whole-kitchen number is in our Fabuwood cost guide; the benchmark 10x10 layout quotes at $3,500.00 in this finish.

The codes say which box each tray fits; loose parts carry the GLN prefix in the same paint. Cutlery trays: GLN CD-15/18 ($201.50), GLN CD-21/24 ($273.00), GL CD-27/30 ($399.75) and GL CD-33/36 ($526.50). K-cup trays: GL KCUP-18 ($224.25) and GL KCUP-21/24 ($266.50). The DCD BLUM series, GLN DCD-15 through DCD-36 at $354.25 to $676.00, is a second shallow drawer on its own runners inside the top tier rather than a tray dropped in.

Fit one to the top tier and stop; a tray in a deep tier wastes height. The cabinet accessories page has the roll-outs that do the same job inside a door base, and the space-saving guide covers aftermarket layouts.

Order matters more than widths. Fix the sink base first, because the plumbing does not move. Fix the cooktop or range cabinet second. Then place drawer banks on both sides of the cooktop and at the prep counter, door bases at the far ends and under anything tall, and close out the remainder with a 27″ or 33″ box before you reach for a filler.

One detail for a long, visible run of beige drawer fronts: the top tier here and the top drawer on a door base sit at similar heights, so the horizontal rail line carries across the wall, and in a cream-to-beige shaker like this one that continuous line is what makes the run read calm. Check it on the elevation drawing before ordering; a full-height door box breaks it, and sometimes that is the right call anyway.

Everything ships assembled in 7 days to 3 weeks. The base cabinet lineup has the corners and specialty boxes, and the design service will draw the elevation if you would rather not.