Galaxy Pistachio Green Tall Cabinets

Everything else in the kitchen is broken up. Base cabinets hide behind a counter; uppers are split by the tile band and the hood. A pair of pantries is one unbroken vertical face, and in a colour that is the most visible thing you can build. So the finish of the tall run sets the character of the whole room more than any other single choice. Here are the three answers side by side.

The pattern: the tall wall should agree with whichever finish the room has most of. A green kitchen with a white pantry wall reads as two kitchens; a white kitchen with a green pantry wall reads as a kitchen with a piece of painted furniture in it — which, as the next section explains, can be a very good thing. What does not work is a tall run in a third colour that appears nowhere else. And if the room is small, taking the tall run light is almost always the right call, because it is the largest single block of colour you can put in it.

Here is a version of this green that almost nobody plans and that looks wonderful: a light kitchen, Frost or Dove all round, with one wall of tall cabinets in the sage, finished top and bottom like a free-standing dresser or larder. It puts the colour exactly where you see it most, keeps it out of the working zone, and it is a smaller commitment than it looks, because it is one wall.

The trick is the trim. A green larder only looks like furniture if it is finished like furniture: crown at the top, a plinth at the bottom, and properly finished ends. At displayed prices, a 48″-wide larder built from two 24″ double-door pantries comes out like this:

Three upgrades make it look more like a piece of joinery and less like two boxes. A GPG PP-TP96 pantry pilaster ($464.75) between the two cabinets gives a vertical divide, the way a real dresser has a centre post. A reeded or slatted end panel (GPG RFP696 or SFP696, $250.25 each, with $97.50 end caps) on the exposed side adds texture where people walk past. And an open, lit niche in the middle of the wall — a wood-finished LED floating shelf such as GPG LED FLS48 TIMBER ($698.75) — puts a warm band across the green. Be aware that the LED floating shelf codes also appear in the product list under an undercabinet light bar title at the same code and price; confirm with us which item you are getting before you order.

In an all-green kitchen, the same larder treatment still helps: it gives the tallest block of colour a top, a bottom and edges, so it looks built rather than stacked.

The tall wall is usually where the appliances are, and the appliances are metal. Stainless steel is a cool, light gray, and next to a muted gray-green it sits comfortably: the two are related enough that nothing clashes, and a stainless oven set into a green tower reads calm and professional. Black or black-stainless ovens are the bolder choice, producing a strong dark rectangle in the green; they suit a kitchen that already uses black hardware. White appliances are the hardest to make look intentional against this colour, because they compete with the cabinet for attention.

The oven towers are 33″ wide and come in three configurations, each at four heights. At the two ends of the height range:

Check the oven’s cut-out dimensions against the cabinet before you order; appliance specifications change from model to model, and the cabinet cannot be resized after it is built.

Beside the fridge, three pieces make the gap look designed in green rather than left over. A 24″-deep GPG W362424 refrigerator wall cabinet ($578.50) above the fridge, set flush with the fridge front. A GPG REP1296 refrigerator end panel (12″ × 96″, $224.25) on the open side, so you see a green panel rather than the side of an appliance. And GPG RFPEC end caps ($97.50) to finish the panel edge. A fridge boxed in on both sides by green tall cabinets is the most built-in look there is; a fridge with one green panel and open on the other side is the simplest.

Tall cabinets come 24″ deep or 12″ deep, and the price difference is small: GPG TP242496 is $1,397.50, and the same 24″-wide, 96″-high pantry at 12″ deep, GPG TP241296, is $1,365.00. Choose the depth on what stands next to it. A 24″ box lines up with the base run and sits close to flush with most fridges; a 12″ box suits a corridor, a tight aisle or a shallow broom cupboard. The exposed side of a 24″-deep tall box takes a GPG SK TALL skin ($169.00); a 12″-deep box takes GPG SK T12D ($126.75).

Open a standard tall cabinet and the inside is a natural wood veneer, not green paint, on ¾″ plywood shelves. That warm interior behind the colour is one of the nicer surprises of this line. The number of shelves in each height is not published in the product listings, so if the count matters for what you plan to store, ask us before ordering and we will confirm it for the exact box.

Deep pantries are only useful if you can reach the back. Roll-out drawers fitted behind the doors solve that: GPG ROD-B24 BLUM E is $214.50 in standard height and the ROD-B24 BLUM H high version is $263.25, with other widths on the accessories page. Two or three in the lower half of a pantry turn the bottom shelves from a place things disappear into a set of drawers. The space-saving guide covers what else fits.

Pantries come at 84″, 90″, 93″ and 96″. On the 24″-wide double-door pantry the prices climb the way you would expect: $1,270.75 at 84″, $1,326.00 at 90″, $1,332.50 at 93″ and $1,397.50 at 96″. The difference between the shortest and the tallest is $126.75, which is too small to decide on. Decide on the ceiling.

On the 36″-wide pantry the grid is odd. GPG TP362484 is $1,712.75 and TP362490 is $2,031.25, but TP362493 is listed at $2,548.00 — more than the 96″ TP362496 at $2,343.25. The 12″-deep 36″ pantries do the same thing ($2,470.00 at 93″, $2,314.00 at 96″), and on the 18″ single-door pantry the 90″ box is listed a few dollars above the 93″. We report prices as the grid shows them, but if your plan uses a 36″ pantry at 93″, ask us to confirm the figure before you commit; and if your ceiling allows the 96″, it is the cheaper box.

• Nine-foot ceiling: the 96″ box, with crown filling the space above. The most generous storage and the tallest green face.
• Eight-foot ceiling: a 90″ or 93″ box, with crown or a filler taking up the rest. A 96″ box standing in a 96″ room is not realistic: a 24″-deep, 96″-tall cabinet has a diagonal of about 99″, so it cannot be tipped upright under an eight-foot ceiling.
• Matching heights: the pantry pilaster comes in every height (GPG PP-TP84 at $455.00 up to PP-TP96 at $464.75), and tall fillers are GPG TF396 at $84.50 and TF696 at $152.75 for 3″ and 6″ widths at 96″.
• Widths: single-door pantries at 15″ and 18″ — the single-door pantry GPG TP152496 is $981.50 — and double-door from 24″ to 36″. Two 24″ pantries ($2,795.00) give 12″ more width than one 36″ ($2,343.25) and a natural divide in the middle.

Every size is on the tall cabinet page. Measure the ceiling in several places along the wall, because floors and ceilings are rarely level and the tall run will find the lowest point; the wall and tall size guide matches each height to a ceiling.

Order a door sample ($25.00 displayed; ask your designer about credit against the order) and tape it at eye level to the wall where the tall run will stand. A colour always looks stronger across a large area than on a small chip, so the sample is the quietest version of this green you will ever see; if it already feels like a lot at that size, take the tall run light. If you are considering the wood answer, get a Timber or Natural Oak sample too and hold the two together.

Then measure the ceiling in a few spots, confirm the fridge and oven models, walk the delivery route, and send us the wall. The free 3D design starts with a designer reply within one business day and delivers a rendered design with an itemised quote within 24 to 48 hours, drawn to your real ceiling height, with the panels, fillers and crown specified. Trade buyers go through Captivating Pro at 20% to 40% off. Every tall box arrives pre-assembled with its doors hung, in 7 days to 3 weeks. For the colour and its partners, start on the collection page; for the rest of the room, the base and wall pages.