Galaxy Linen Drawer Bench Seat Cabinets

The widest box is the cheapest bench per inch, so build a run from 36s and use a 24 or a 30 only to make the length. A 72″ nook is two 36s for $851.50 and seats three adults; a 96″ window wall is two 36s and a 24 for $1,189.50 — a built-in bench with drawers for less than most freestanding banquettes, in the same paint as the kitchen. The widths step in 6″ rather than the 3″ the rest of the base line uses, so a remainder against the wall is normal — cover it with a scribe strip at the end, not with a gap in the middle.

Start at the top, not the floor. A standard dining table is about 30″ high and wants the seat 11″ to 12″ below it, so the finished seat — cushion compressed, someone sitting on it — should land at 18″ to 19″. The box is 16⅜″ high with an open top. That leaves you about 2″ for everything you add: a ¾″ plywood or hardwood seat panel and a firm cushion that squashes to a little over an inch. A thick, soft cushion is the mistake here; it looks generous in the shop and puts knees against the table underside at dinner.

Depth is the other number. The product page lists width and height only; plan on the standard 24″ base depth and confirm it against the spec sheet before the cushions are made. A 24″-deep seat is deeper than a bench wants, so a back cushion or a padded panel is part of the design, not an afterthought — it brings the seat depth into the 18″ to 20″ range people actually sit in. Under a window the same box works as a window seat; check the sill height against the finished seat before assuming the cushion clears it.

One planning detail that ends up on every site: the box sits against a wall that has baseboard on it. Either the trim is cut out behind the bench or the box is scribed around it, and the decision has to be made before the carpenter starts. Our kitchen dimensions guide has the table and seat numbers in one place.

Each box has one drawer: a ⅝″ solid wood dovetailed box on Blum Tandem plus Blumotion full-extension glides, the same drawer that goes in the kitchen bases. It is shallow by the nature of the cabinet and suits linens, placemats, board games, gloves and the paperwork that otherwise lives on the table. Two things to get right: the seat panel must overhang the drawer front enough that the front clears it when the drawer opens, and the cushion must stop short of that edge rather than hanging over it, or the drawer becomes a thing you lift the cushion to use — which is to say a thing you stop using.

If a corner banquette is the plan, accept that the two runs meeting in the corner leave one box that cannot open into the other. Treat that spot as a fixed panel with the seat continuing over it. The dovetail drawer guide covers why the drawer under a seat gets the same construction as the drawers in the kitchen.

The site also lists each size as a carcass-only loose part — GLN DBS24-BO at $217.75, GLN DBS30-BO at $247.00 and GLN DBS36-BO at $273.00 under loose parts. The intent is a bench whose front will be paneled, upholstered or beadboarded on site to match a room rather than the kitchen, using the Fabuwood box for its drawer hardware and squareness. Confirm exactly what ships in the carcass-only version before you order it; it is not the box you want if the drawer front is meant to match the kitchen doors. The full box is described on the Linen collection page alongside the rest of the line.