Galaxy Pistachio Green Double Door Base Cabinets

Every house is different, but in a remodel the same services keep turning up in the same places, and most of them end up behind whichever box is widest. We ask for a photograph of the bare wall with a tape measure in shot for exactly this reason: a valve that is not on the plan becomes a hole cut on site in a hurry.

None of that is exotic. It is simply the reason the wide box in the middle of a run is so often the one an installer has to work around, and why it is worth choosing its type for access as well as for storage.

A drawer bank covers the back wall with its drawer boxes. To reach a shut-off behind one you pull every drawer out of its runners, empty it, and put your arm into the gap — which is not what anyone wants to be doing with water on the floor or a smell of gas in the room. Behind two doors, the same valve is one reach away: open both, move the colander, turn the handle.

That is the whole case for the box type on this page in the positions above. The Galaxy double door bases carry a drawer tier across the top and an open cavity below it, 34½″ high overall and 24″ deep, with the back and sides in ½″ veneered plywood and a ¾″ plywood shelf. A pipe or cable that has to pass through the back can be bored on site with a hole saw from the inside, sized to the pipe with a little clearance, and anything that might need a hand on it later stays in the open space below the shelf. If the box in front of the valve does not need a drawer at all, the drawerless version is on the full height double page and costs less at every width it shares.

The double door line runs from 24″ to 48″. The positions below are where we most often draw each width in a run with services in it; they are habits, not rules. Prices are the figures displayed on the review date — the grid above the article is the authority if they have moved.

The SDF versions at 33″ and 36″ carry a single drawer front across the top instead of two; they cost the same as the standard box, so choose by what the drawer tier should look like rather than by price. And past 36 inches it is worth asking whether one box or two is better — one wide box keeps a seam out of the middle of a wall, two narrower ones each get their own pair of doors.

In an L-shaped or U-shaped kitchen, one end of a wide box is often the first cabinet off a corner. The cheapest way round a corner is a blind corner base — GPG BLB36/39 at $614.25, BLB39/42 at $685.75, and BLB42/45 or BLB48/51 at $767.00 each on the corner base page. Its buried end tucks behind the first box on the other wall, and that box is very often a 30″ or 36″ double door base.

Three things go wrong at that joint, and all three are fixed on paper. The door and pull of the wide box have to clear the face of the corner cabinet, which is what the filler at the corner is for — GPG BF3 at $26.00 is the usual answer. The corner cabinet’s own door has to open past the wide box’s drawer pulls. And if the corner is getting a pull-out — GPG BPO-BLB42/45-L or -R at $1,277.25 for the 42/45 box — the carriage swings out into the space in front of its neighbour, so the drawing has to show both open at once. If none of that appeals, the lazy Susan turns the corner without a buried end.

The colour matters at this joint in one specific way. An inside corner is the darkest spot in a run: it gets light from one side only and the counter overhang shades it. A mid-tone greyed green reads a step deeper and greyer there than it does on a sample held at a window, so judge your door sample in the corner itself, and order the corner filler in the same finish so the strip between the two boxes looks like part of the run rather than a gap in it.

Not every window has a sink under it. In many L-plans the sink goes on the long wall and a wide base sits under the window on the short one, where it inherits the window’s own problems. Older houses often have a radiator or a heating register there, and a cabinet cannot simply be set over a working heater — the heat has to be moved or re-ducted to the toe kick first, which is a job for the heating contractor before our boxes arrive. Check the height of the sill against 36″ of finished counter plus any backsplash, too: a low sill means the splash stops short or the window trim is cut.

The window position is also where a 33″ SDF earns its keep. One long drawer front under a window lines up with the sill and the glass above it; two fronts put a seam in the middle of a centred view.

1. Photograph each wall bare, with a tape measure running along the floor and another up the wall.
2. Mark every valve, pipe, outlet and floor register, with its height and its distance from a corner.
3. Say which of them are staying and which are being moved by a plumber, electrician or heating contractor.
4. Tell us which boxes you would like as drawer banks, so we can move valves out from behind them — the three-drawer page has those.
5. Send it all to the free 3D design service: a designer replies within one business day, and the drawing and quote follow within 24–48 hours.

Galaxy boxes arrive assembled in about 7 days to 3 weeks, so the services work can be done while the order is in transit. For narrower gaps there are the single door boxes, and the full finish is on the collection page. If a wall has already been opened and you want a second opinion on what is in it, call us on (609) 900-3358.