Galaxy Pistachio Green 3 Drawer Base Cabinets

Put a drawer bank tight into an inside corner and the drawer on the other wall, running at right angles, has nowhere to go. Each drawer comes out close to two feet. Two of them pulled at once from boxes that meet at the corner collide, and even one at a time, the pull on one bank can catch the pull or the front edge of its neighbour. The fix is never to meet at the corner with two drawer banks. Something else takes the corner — a lazy Susan or a blind corner base from the corner base page — and the drawer banks start just beyond it on each wall.

Even then, the first drawer bank off a corner cabinet wants a filler between them. The corner cabinet’s door and pull, and the drawer bank’s pulls, all project beyond the face of the run; a 3″ filler, GPG BF3 at $26.00, holds the drawer bank far enough out that its fronts clear. If the pulls you have chosen are unusually deep, a 6″ filler, GPG BF6 at $43.55, is the safer call, cut down on site to what the drawing shows.

The corner is the obvious clash. The rest are less obvious, and all of them are fixed with a small part or a small move on the plan, not with a different cabinet.

Scribed fillers are cut to the wall on site, so the width on the plan is a starting point rather than a finished dimension. The full range is on the filler page, and the end panels and fillers guide explains where each strip belongs.

A drawer bank beside the dishwasher is one of the best positions in the kitchen: the cutlery and the everyday plates come out of the machine and go straight into the drawers next to it. The drawers and the machine can be open at the same time without touching, because they sit side by side rather than face to face. What goes wrong is the corner. If the dishwasher is tight to an inside corner, its open door lies across the floor in front of the first box on the other wall, and that box cannot be opened while the machine is being unloaded. Keep the dishwasher at least one cabinet away from the corner, and put the drawer bank on the same wall as the machine rather than round the corner from it.

A refrigerator door usually opens past a right angle so the crisper drawers inside can come out, and on the hinge side it swings back toward whatever is beside it. A drawer bank there can have a drawer open when someone opens the fridge, and the fridge door wins. The simplest fix is a gap: a refrigerator end panel on the fridge’s exposed side, GPG REP1296 at $224.25 on the decorative accessories page, plus a filler, holds the drawer fronts clear of the door’s swing. Check the appliance’s install sheet for the clearance it asks for on the hinge side.

Walls and door frames catch pulls rather than drawers. A drawer bank that runs into a side wall needs a filler so its pulls do not scrape the plaster every time a drawer opens; one that ends beside a doorway needs a filler at least as wide as the door casing is deep. Neither is expensive. Both are easy to forget, because on a plan drawn from above the wall and the cabinet look as if they simply meet.

Three-drawer bases in this finish run from 12″ to 36″. The narrow ones are what you use when a clash leaves an awkward remainder beside a corner cabinet or a fridge panel; the wide ones are the working drawers. Prices are the figures displayed on the review date.

One colour note, because the fillers in this table are part of the look. Every filler, panel and toe kick has to be ordered in the same finish as the boxes, and on a green run a strip at a corner or a wall is visible in a way a white one is not. Order them on the same order and they read as part of the cabinetry; a 3″ band of sage between a corner cabinet and a drawer bank looks drawn, not patched. If you are still deciding whether the green is right for a whole base run, order a door sample and look at it in the corner, where it is darkest.

The single most useful thing to ask of any kitchen drawing is to see it with the drawers and doors open. A plan shows the boxes; it does not show the two feet in front of each one that its drawers take up when they come out. Our free 3D design service will show the corner with both neighbouring drawers pulled at once, the dishwasher open beside its drawer bank, and the fridge door swung. A designer replies within one business day, and the full drawing and quote follow within 24–48 hours.

The boxes arrive pre-assembled with the drawers already on their runners, in about 7 days to 3 weeks, so the fillers and panels are the only things cut on site. Contractors doing this across several kitchens get 20–40% off through Captivating Pro. For the same widths with doors instead of drawers, see the single door and double door pages; for four shallower drawers, the four-drawer page; and for the whole finish, the collection page.