Galaxy Pistachio Green Easy Reach Base Cabinets

The base is fixed: a 45° door across a square footprint, 33″ or 36″ along each wall, fixed shelves behind it. The wall corner above it is a separate choice with five real options in this finish, each listed here at 30″ high. Taller versions of the diagonal and no-door corners are stocked to suit 36″, 39″ and 42″ uppers — the diagonal corner runs $510.25 at 36″, $536.25 at 39″ and $581.75 at 42″.

Those live on the corner wall cabinets and blind wall pages, and extra shelves for the diagonal uppers are sold loose — AS-WDC24 at $62.40 and AS-WDC27 at $139.75. Our own default over an angled base is the matching diagonal. Repeating the 45° gives the corner one deliberate shape from floor to ceiling, and the diagonal upper, like the base, has no hidden end: the whole of it is behind the door you open.

The base claims 33″ or 36″ of each wall; a 24″ diagonal upper claims 24″. So the first ordinary wall cabinet beside the corner starts 9″ (over an ERB33) or 12″ (over an ERB36) closer to the corner than the first ordinary base below it, and the door edges of the two runs do not stack. People notice this on the rendering, assume the designer has made a mistake, and ask for it to be fixed. It is not a mistake. Uppers are 12″ deep and bases are 24″, so their corner boxes are different sizes, and the offset is how every framed kitchen with an angled corner is built.

What you can do is choose where the two runs come back into line. Beside an ERB33, a 21″ base (GPG B21, $432.25) ends 54″ from the corner; above a WDC2430, a 30″ wall cabinet (GPG W3030, $383.50) also ends at 54″. From there on, the uppers and lowers can share door lines again. Beside an ERB36, an 18″ base does the same job. A WDC27 upper narrows the offset to 6″ over the smaller base, which is the other reason to pay the $84.50 more for it. A designer does this arithmetic as a matter of course, and it is worth asking for, because a corner where the lines resolve a few feet out looks planned and one where they never resolve looks improvised.

Depth matters too. The angled face of the upper sits 12″ further back than the angled face of the base, so the column is two parallel angled planes with the countertop between them, not a single flush face. Seen from across the room, that step is what makes the corner read as built-in furniture.

The corner column is where a colour decision shows most, because the eye meets it at 45° and sees both planes at once. In the most common way to use this green — sage lowers under lighter uppers — the column splits at the countertop: a green angled door below, a Frost, Linen or Dove diagonal above. That split reads as intentional precisely because both boxes share the same angle; a blind wall cabinet over an angled base in a different colour tends to look like two unrelated decisions.

In an all-green kitchen the column becomes the single largest plane of colour in the room, and some people find a full-height green corner heavy. Two ways to lighten it: the open no-door corner, which shows a painted interior and breaks the face with whatever you put on the shelves, or a glass door in the diagonal frame from the glass doors page — GPG GDWDC2430 is $100.75. The glass lines describe themselves as an open frame that accepts glass, so confirm with us exactly what ships before you order one. Either way, judge it with a door sample held in the corner rather than on a table.

An L has one corner. A U has two, a G has three, and the mistake in those plans is to solve every corner the same way because the first one was solved that way. The corners of a U are not equal: one is usually near the sink and the plumbing, one near the range and the pans, and in a longer U the far end of the kitchen may be a corner nobody works in at all. Here are the pairings people actually build, totalled at displayed prices for the two boxes alone.

The rule under that table: give each corner the job its neighbours suggest. The corner beside the range wants pans within reach, which the lazy Susan does best. The corner beside the sink often has plumbing behind it, which the blind corner tolerates best. And the angled box earns its place in whichever corner is left to hold the stand mixer, the sheet pans and the big stockpot. In a tight U, also draw both corner doors and the dishwasher door open at once; three doors swinging into a small floor can meet in the middle.

There is one more angled box in this finish, and it is worth knowing about before a corner is committed to storage. The diagonal sink base, GPG DSB36 at $617.50, puts the sink itself into the corner behind the same kind of 45° face. It suits a kitchen where both walls want long runs of worktop and a window happens to sit in the corner, and it frees the straight runs for drawers. The costs are real: you stand in the corner to wash up, the dishwasher has to go beside it on one leg, and the corner stops being storage at all. For most kitchens the easy reach box is the better use of the square. For some, the corner sink is the plan that makes the rest of the room work, and it is cheaper than either easy reach box.

Both boxes are 34½″ high and 24″ deep with one door across the angle, Blum soft-close hinges and a natural wood veneer interior behind that door. They ship pre-assembled from Fabuwood in seven days to three weeks. The two sizes are $9.75 apart, so choose on the walls, not the price: take the ERB36 only where both legs can give up 36″ without squeezing a drawer base elsewhere. Carcass-only versions sit under loose parts — ERB33-BO at $539.50 and ERB36-BO at $546.00 — for a job hanging its own doors.

If the column above is the harder decision, send us the plan through a free design request and ask for the corner drawn in elevation, uppers included; a designer replies within one business day and the full 3D design and quote follows within 24 to 48 hours. Every other box in this finish is on the collection page, and the plain wall cabinets that finish the run on either side are listed by width.