Galaxy Nickel Full Height Single Door Base Cabinets

Work through the alternatives and the list gets short fast. A drawer bank divides the space into tiers six to nine inches tall. A wall cabinet is twelve inches deep and starts eighteen inches above the counter, so nothing heavy and nothing tall lives there comfortably. A tall pantry solves everything and needs a wall you may not have. What is left for the objects that are simply too big is this box, and the honest way to buy one is to stand the object up, measure it, and pick the width from the table.

Two footnotes. The clear opening is a couple of inches under the width on the label — framed construction gives that back to the face frame, and the figure is not published, so measure your object and let us check it against the spec sheet. And the same widths with a drawer on top cost $32.50 to $35.75 more on the single door page, so you are paying less here and getting more height. The trade is the drawer. Count the drawers in the plan before you fill a wall with these; a kitchen can end up with nowhere to put a spatula.

Nine inches is the narrowest cabinet in the Allure Galaxy base line and the only width never offered with a drawer, for the obvious reason that a nine-inch drawer is a pencil tray. Take the face frame off each side and the usable opening is nearer seven inches than nine — hopeless for anything stacked, close to ideal for anything flat. That is the whole design brief: trays, racks, boards, platters, pot lids and muffin tins, filed like books and pulled out one at a time.

There is hardware listed against this width, and it is worth knowing what it costs relative to the box. GNK TDPO-B9 BLUM is a 9″ base pull-out at $672.75, GNK SPO-B9 BLUM is $806.00 and GNK UPO-B9 BLUM is $880.75 — two and three times the price of the $273.00 cabinet they go into. Not an argument against them; an argument for knowing which purchase is the real one.

If the plan has no nine spare inches, the fallbacks exist and are worse. A three- or six-inch filler pull-out — GNK SPO-BF3 at $334.75, GNK SPO-BF6 at $380.25 — takes bottles and jars but never a tray. A tray divider inside a wider box works if you will give up part of a cupboard. And where two of these flank an oven, order them as a mirrored pair with the hinges outboard so both doors open away from it; hand is a line on the order, not a suffix in the code.

This is the other reason people come to a drawerless box. A base pull-out pantry is a tall basket frame that uses the whole opening, and it only works behind a door that runs the whole height — a plain B’s drawer rail cuts the travel short at the top. For a twelve-inch cabinet the listed units are GNK SPO-B12 BLUM at $919.75, GNK UPO-B12 BLUM at $1,030.25 and GNK UKBPO-B12 BLUM at $1,205.75; a width up, GNK UKBPO-B15 BLUM is $1,433.25.

Put the arithmetic on the table first: GN B12FD at $328.25 plus GNK SPO-B12 BLUM at $919.75 is $1,248.00 for twelve inches of groceries that come out to meet you. It is worth it in two situations — the wall with no room for a tall pantry at all, and the awkward gap beside a refrigerator where nothing else earns its space. Everywhere else it is a luxury.

One practical note on the door-mounted versions: the load hangs on the door and its hinges. Blum Compact Clip hinges are six-way adjustable and quick-release, so a door that has settled comes back into line in a minute without tools — but that is not a substitute for loading it sensibly. The range sits on the pull-out organiser page, priced against the box width each one fits.

Every width on this page also exists at half depth, carrying a -12D suffix: GN B09FD-12D at $266.50, GN B12FD-12D at $321.75, GN B15FD-12D at $331.50, GN B18FD-12D at $364.00 and GN B21FD-12D at $390.00. The saving against the full-depth twin is $6.50 to $9.75 — under three per cent — so nobody chooses shallow to save money. You choose it because twenty-four inches of cabinet would eat a walkway, and because a shallow run does something a deep one cannot: everything in it is visible from the front, with no back row.

The real cost of going shallow is the countertop. A standard slab is cut for a 24-inch box plus an inch and a half of overhang; a shallow run wants a top around 13½ inches deep, which is a separate cut out of the same slab. Fabricators price by slab and by linear foot rather than by the square inches you use, so the narrow top is rarely proportionally cheaper and sometimes is not cheaper at all. Say it at template, not on install day.

What twelve inches will hold: dinner plates, glassware, folded linens, books, a printer, shoes in bins. What it will not: a stock pot, a sheet pan lying flat, or most of the inventory in the first table above. The catalog’s roll-out trays are listed against the full-depth boxes, so ask before adding one to a -12D. And on a hall run in particular, where bags and boots land at knee height, a mid-tone gray is the finish that still looks intact after a year — the care guide covers the rest.

Twenty-four inches deep with one shelf at eighteen means whatever sits behind the front row is a crouch and a reach. Two fixes at very different prices. The free one is the shelf: ¾″ and adjustable on pins, so it can be dropped to put the tall items above it rather than beside them. The paid one is a roll-out tray, and the list is shorter here than on the wide boxes — nothing is built for a 9″ or a 12″, because there is not enough width inside the frame to run hardware down both sides.

• 15″ — GNK ROD-B15 BLUM E at $188.50, or the high-sided GNK ROD-B15 BLUM H at $240.50.
• 18″ — GNK ROD-B18 BLUM E at $201.50, high-sided GNK ROD-B18 BLUM H at $250.25.
• 21″ — GNK ROD-B21 BLUM E at $204.75, high-sided GNK ROD-B21 BLUM H at $253.50.

The E and H suffixes are the part nobody explains. E is standard height: a low lip, for pans, appliance bodies and anything you lift out over the edge. H is high-sided, about fifty dollars more, for boxes, bags and bottles that would otherwise tip as the tray runs. In a cabinet bought for tall objects, H is usually right — a rare case of the dearer option being the correct default. Both are on the roll-out page.

Wider than 21 inches with the drawer still gone — the island back, the bulk cupboard — is the full-height double door page. The same five widths with a drawer on top are the single door bases, and the cooking positions want drawer banks whatever else the plan does. Waste units sit on the trash pull-out page, panels and toe kick on the decorative accessories page, and the whole finish on the collection page. If the tall objects are the reason you are reading this, list them in the design request and we draw the boxes around them.