Galaxy Pistachio Green Double Door Glass Cabinet Cabinets

The wall-with-drawers cabinets in this finish are all 18 inches wide, in four heights: 48, 54, 57 and 60 inches. Add a standard 36-inch counter to each and you get 84, 90, 93 and 96 inches — exactly the four heights the tall pantry cabinets come in. That is not a coincidence. These are boxes designed to stand on the worktop, the way an appliance garage does, and to finish on the same top line as a pantry or oven tower in the same kitchen.

The glass unit only comes at 60. So in this finish a glass-fronted countertop tower tops out at 96 inches, which suits a room with an eight-foot ceiling, where it runs right up to it, or a kitchen whose tall cabinets are 96 inches, where it finishes on their line. If your tall run is 90 or 93, the glass version will stand proud of it by six or three inches; ask us before accepting that. The solid boxes are on the wall-with-drawers page, and the tall cabinet page has the heights they are matching.

A complete 18-by-60 cabinet at $188.50 would be remarkable when the solid-door version of the same box, WD1860, is $926.25. The more likely reading, given the code and the way the glass lines describe themselves as an open frame that accepts glass, is that GDWD1860 is the glass door set for a WD1860 box — the front, not the cabinet. On that reading a glass tower costs $926.25 plus $188.50, or $1,114.75, which is a normal sort of premium for glass over a solid front.

We are not going to print that as fact, because the listing does not say it. It also leaves a second question open: WD1860 has drawers, going by its name, and nothing in the glass title tells you whether the glass version keeps them or replaces them with more glass. Before this goes on an order, call us and ask three things: is it a cabinet or a front, does the layout include drawers, and is the pane supplied or glazed locally. The glass door wall cabinet page works through the same question for the smaller glass boxes, and the glass doors page lists all nineteen glass items in this finish.

A run of low cabinets with a counter, and glass-fronted towers standing on it, is a dresser — the piece of furniture kitchens and dining rooms had long before fitted kitchens existed, and painted ones, green included, are a long tradition. A greyed sage like this one suits the idea well because it reads as painted furniture rather than as a kitchen finish, particularly outside the kitchen.

That makes the tower most useful in three places. On a dining-room wall, as a built-in sideboard and china display in one. In a butler’s pantry or a bar between kitchen and dining, where the glass shows the good glassware and the base below holds everything else. And in the kitchen itself, as a short run standing on the counter at one end — the countertop hutch — where the two towers flank a window or a stretch of open wall.

For the dining-room version, the shallow bases in this finish help. Most base cabinets are 24 inches deep, which is a lot of floor for a dining room; the 12-inch-deep bases suit exactly this, and a 72-inch dresser built from GPG B18FD-12D, B36FD-12D and B18FD-12D costs $1,205.75 in boxes. The depth of WD1860 is not in its title, so confirm it will stand on a counter that shallow before drawing it; if it will not, the standard 24-inch bases are the fallback, with the towers standing at the back of a full-depth worktop.

A countertop tower almost always has at least one side on show — at the end of a dresser, beside a window, at the edge of a bar. That side needs finishing. This finish sells a wall-with-drawers end skin, GPG SK WD, at $169.00, made for this family of boxes. A pair of towers at the two ends of a dresser need one on each outside face. Cabinet skin panels and gables shows what a finished side looks like against an unfinished one.

Inside, the tower is only as good as its shelf spacing. The shelves for this box are sold separately on the loose parts page: GPG AS-WD18 at $37.05 for one, or the two-pack at $78.00. Set them to the tallest thing you will display, not to an even spacing, and use fewer shelves than you think.

Light it if it will be seen in the evening, which on a dining-room wall it will. A 48-inch interior strip, GPG LED CAB INT 48" STRIP at $221.00, runs a good length of a 60-inch box; whether it needs the separate $204.75 driver is a question to ask with the rest. The lighting parts are on the cabinet accessories page. Behind the glass the interior is the natural wood veneer the whole line is listed with, so a lit tower in this green shows pale wood framed by sage — warm, and a good background for white china.

• On the main prep counter. Standing on the worktop, the tower takes 18 inches of it out of use for good. Put it at the end of a run, not in the middle of the space you chop on.
• Beside the range. Glass near a cooktop collects grease on the outside and steam on the inside.
• In a room with a ceiling under eight feet, or a kitchen whose tall cabinets stop at 84 or 90 inches, unless you are happy for the tower to break their line. Check the ceiling first — important kitchen dimensions has the counter and ceiling figures.
• As a single tower in the middle of a wall. A pair frames something; one on its own looks like a cabinet that lost its partner.

Settle the three questions with us first: cabinet or front, drawers or not, pane supplied or not. Then draw the dresser — bases, counter, towers, the end skins, the shelves and the light — and check the top of the towers against the ceiling and any tall cabinets in the room. Order it with the rest of the kitchen so the towers come from the same finish run as the bases they stand on.

The free 3D design service will draw the dresser against your wall and ceiling; a designer replies within one business day and the full design and quote follow in 24 to 48 hours. See the green on a door sample ($25.00) before committing a whole wall to it, and find the rest of the finish on the collection page. Builders and designers doing dressers and bars across several projects order through Captivating Pro.