Galaxy Nickel Diagonal Sink Base Cabinets

When it works, it works for a specific reason, and there are only three of them worth ordering a cabinet over:

• The window is in the corner. Some houses simply put the glass there, and no amount of planning moves it. A sink under that window means daylight while you wash up and a view instead of a wall, and there is no other way to get it.
• Both straight runs are needed for something else. In a tight L or a galley-with-a-return, taking the sink out of the runs frees the long walls for the range, the fridge and an uninterrupted stretch of counter. The corner was awkward anyway; the sink at least makes it work.
• The cook wants to face the room. Turned forty-five degrees, you are looking out at the table rather than at a wall — the thing people usually spend an island’s worth of plumbing to achieve. A corner sink gets it without running a drain into the middle of the floor.

Notice what is not on that list: storage, cost or convenience. The corner sink wins none of those, which is why the next section is longer than this one. Our layouts guide shows the L and U plans where the three reasons above tend to appear together.

None of these are dealbreakers on their own. Together they are the reason most kitchens put the sink on a wall.

• Nowhere comfortable to stand. Measured corner to face, this box runs deeper than the 24″ of an ordinary base, so the bowl sits further from you than you are used to, and the two counter edges converge at your hips. Anyone who leans on the counter to wash up will notice within a week.
• Dead counter on both sides. The stone behind the faucet, right in the corner, is the least reachable surface in the kitchen and collects bottles. And because the cabinet consumes 36″ along each wall, the counter immediately either side of it is short.
• A large footprint for modest storage. Six linear feet of kitchen — 36″ on each run — buys you one bowl, one trap and an awkward angled bay. The same corner fitted with a carousel is GN LSB33 at $1,030.25 or GN LSB36 at $1,095.25, and it is the most storage-dense cabinet in the room. The corner sink is cheaper and stores far less.
• The plumbing goes to the worst spot in the house. Corners are where framing, ducts and structural posts collect, and an outside corner is the coldest part of the wall for a supply line. Have the corner opened up and looked at before the layout is signed off, not on install day.

We draw a lot of these. This is roughly where we land, and we will say it out loud on a design call:

If the table says don’t, the honest alternative is a lazy Susan in the corner and a sink base from $386.75 on the wall — more storage, more comfortable, and $126.75 less for the sink box if the straight-wall bowl takes the 36″. Our notes on space-saving cabinet solutions cover the carousel and the blind-corner pull-outs.

The cabinet itself is straightforward — 36″ across each wall, 34½″ high, assembled, Blum soft-close, the same ½″ solid wood box as the rest of the line. It is everything touching it that needs deciding in advance.

1. Fillers at both walls, on the same order. A corner unit meets two walls and two walls are almost never square to each other. GN BF3 at $26.00 and GN BF6 at $43.55 are on the filler page in this finish; a missing one holds up a countertop template.
2. The dishwasher one cabinet along a leg, never hard against the corner. Its open door and the person at the bowl otherwise occupy the same square of floor. Put a drawer base between them and route the drain through that flanking side panel.
3. A drawer base rather than a door base beside it, where you have the choice. Doors on both legs plus a door at forty-five degrees is three swinging panels converging on one spot.
4. Countertop templated on site after the box is set. The corner slab is the largest single piece of stone in the kitchen and the angle is never exactly what the drawing said.
5. Toe kick mitred across the angle. GN TK8 at $55.90 gives eight feet in this gray, and the cuts at each end of the diagonal are mitres, not butt joints.

The fillers and end panels guide explains which part closes which gap, and a free 3D layout will show the dishwasher swing against the corner before the boxes are built rather than after.

GN DSB36 puts a door beneath a false drawer front, so the drawer band running along both legs turns the corner without a break. GN DSB36FD is a single full-height door: a taller opening for a bin on a pull-out or a filter tank, and one large unbroken panel of this gray at the angle. Both are $617.50, both are assembled, and the choice is about what has to get past the trap rather than about looks.

One detail is specific to the angle and it is worth a minute on the drawing. A knob clears the drawer fronts on either leg easily. A long bar pull on a door swinging across a forty-five degree face can clip the cabinet next door on its arc, so if the rest of the kitchen is getting bars, check this door’s swing before the hardware is ordered. The full-height version has the longer door and therefore the longer arc.

Sitting next to this one is the diagonal sink front at $149.50, which shares this cabinet’s corner footprint and nothing else: it is the angled frame and door alone, for a cavity an installer builds between two runs, with the floor sold separately at $100.75. It is not a cheaper version of this cabinet and buying it by mistake is the most common ordering error on these four pages. On a straight wall the answer is a sink base from $386.75; for an apron sink it is the farm sink cabinet from $806.00, and there is no apron version of a corner. Wall and tall units to finish the room are in the collection.