Galaxy Pistachio Green Corner Wall Cabinets

Start with the footprint, because it sets the run lengths for both walls. Measured along each wall from the corner, displayed prices at 36 inches tall on the review date:

The diagonal and pie-cut boxes are symmetrical: they take the same distance from both walls, so the runs beside them start at matching points. That matters when the two walls are meant to look like a pair — a corner with a window on each side, say. The blind box is the asymmetrical one, and its direction is its own subject on the blind wall page.

The 27-inch diagonal is the one people skip past. It uses three more inches of each wall than the 24 and costs $97.50 more at this height, and in return the angled door is wider and the box behind it is bigger. It is the right choice when the runs either side come out three inches long with the 24 — using the bigger corner instead of adding a pair of fillers — and when the corner is where you want real storage rather than an awkward shelf. Confirm the angled door width on the drawing; we will give you the dimension for the code you are considering.

Once the corner is chosen, lay the runs outward from it: corner, then the full boxes, then the leftover at the far end in a filler or a narrow box. Do it the other way round and the leftover ends up in the corner, where it is hardest to hide.

The standard corner heights are 30, 36, 39 and 42 inches, matching the rest of the run. Less well known: both the 24-inch diagonal and the 24-inch pie-cut also come in 15- and 18-inch heights.

The short corners have two jobs. The first is a stacked wall: on a nine- or ten-foot ceiling, where a row of short two-door boxes sits on top of the main run, the corner needs a short box of its own or the top tier stops a foot short of the corner on both walls. The 15 or 18 over a standard corner closes it. The second is a corner under a beam or a low soffit, where a full-height box will not fit and a short one keeps the run continuous.

One oddity in that table, which we would rather point out than have you find: the 15-inch pie-cut is displayed at $409.50 and the 18-inch at $383.50, so the shorter box costs more than the taller one. That is what the grid showed on the review date. If a 15 is what you need, ask us before you order; if the space allows the 18, the numbers favour it. Stacking in general is on the double door wall page.

An inside corner is the one place in the upper run where two doors can open towards each other. The corner door opens into the room at an angle; the first door on each adjacent wall opens along its wall. Where either of those adjacent doors is hinged on its corner side, it swings into the same air the corner door uses, and the two can meet — or, more often, the pull on one catches the face or the pull of the other before either is fully open.

The check is simple and belongs on the drawing, not on installation day: with the corner door and the first door beside it both open, do the pulls clear each other and the other door’s face? Three things usually make the difference.

• Hinge side. Hinge the first door on each adjacent wall on the side away from the corner wherever the rest of the layout allows. It then opens away from the corner and never meets the corner door at all.
• Pull length and position. A long bar pull set near the corner edge of a door is the usual culprit. A shorter pull, or a knob, on the doors immediately beside the corner removes most clashes. Keep it at the same height as the rest so the hardware line across the wall is not broken.
• A filler. Where the geometry is tight and the hardware cannot change, a narrow filler at the corner moves the adjacent run out far enough for everything to clear. It is a few dollars — GPG WF336 is $34.45 — and it is far easier to add on the drawing than after the doors are hung.

The pie-cut adds one more thing to check, because its two leaves fold. Its pull has to sit where it can be reached with the leaves closed and must not stop them folding flat; that usually means a knob. The corner is also the most visible door in many L-shaped rooms, since the diagonal faces straight into the room, so it is worth seeing the pull you have chosen against the actual door. On this green, brass reads warm and traditional, black reads sharper, and nickel disappears most. Try them against a door sample — $25.00, with credit worth asking your designer about. The Blum hinge guide explains the soft-close, quick-release hinges on every door.

Two planes of cabinet meeting at ninety degrees shade each other, and the counter beneath them is usually the darkest stretch of worktop in the kitchen. That is true of any colour; it is more noticeable in a mid-value green than in white, because there is less reflected light bouncing between the two faces. It is worth planning light into the corner rather than hoping the ceiling fixtures reach it.

Under the cabinet is the first place. Puck light sets are stocked by cabinet width — GPG LED W24 at $113.75 for a 24-inch box — alongside strip lighting, drivers and switches on the cabinet lighting page, and the light rail, GPG LRM at $149.50, hides the fittings from anyone sitting at the island.

A glass door is the second. The diagonal corner is also listed as a glass-door box in this finish: GPG GDWDC2430 at $100.75, GPG GDWDC2436 at $117.00 and GPG GDWDC2442 at $139.75. Those prices are closer to a door than a cabinet, and the glass lines describe themselves as an open frame that accepts glass, so confirm with us exactly what ships and whether glass is included before you order. Lit from inside, a glass corner turns the darkest spot on the wall into the one people look at; the options are on the glass door page and in the glass cabinet doors guide.

Order the corner as a small package: the box; its extra shelf if you want one — AS-WDC24 is $62.40, AS-WPC24 $64.35, and the larger AS-WDC27 $139.75; any filler the pull check calls for; and the lighting, if you want it, with the wiring on the electrician’s drawing. Then the runs either side, laid out from the corner outward.

A free 3D design draws the corner in plan and elevation with every door arc and every pull, which is where clashes get caught for free; a designer replies within one business day. Boxes arrive pre-assembled with doors hung in 7 days to 3 weeks. The full wall grid is on the wall cabinets page, trade buyers use Captivating Pro, and questions go to (609) 900-3358.