Galaxy Pistachio Green Side Panel Cabinets

The product copy on these listings describes a finished panel for cladding an exposed vanity end. The six letter families, though, are the ones other stockists sell as vanity platforms: a low base the vanity stands on, with the last letters naming a foot style or no foot. Two things on this collection point the same way. The bun feet on the neighbouring page are titled "for platform", and the prices climb with vanity width, which a panel fixed to the side of a 21-inch-deep box would have no reason to do.

We are not going to settle a catalogue dispute from a product page, and you should not have to. Tell us which vanity the part is going under or beside, and we will confirm in writing what that exact code ships as before it goes on the order. Everything below assumes the platform reading, because that is the one the sizing questions belong to. If what you actually need is a finished end, the base end skin (GPG SK BASE, $62.40) and base end panel (GPG BEP, $149.50) sit in decorative accessories and cost a fraction of anything here.

There are two prices at every width. The flat families (SPF and VPF) sit at the lower one; the four footed or profiled families (SPCF, SPTF, VPCF, VPTF) share the upper one. Divide each by the width it is sized for and a pattern appears that the list itself does not show you.

Per inch, a 24-inch footed base costs almost exactly twice what a 60-inch one does. The reason is that most of the cost is fixed — the feet, the corner detail, the finishing — and only a little of it is the extra run of material. The gap between flat and footed is $165.75 to $172.25 at every size, which tells you the same thing from the other side: you are paying a near-constant sum for the furniture detail, whatever the length it sits under.

That changes how to think about it. Set against the cabinet it carries, a footed V60 adds about 40% to the $1,196.00 single-bowl 60-inch combo (GPG VSD60SINGLE); a footed V24 adds nearly 90% to the $438.75 24-inch sink base (GPG VSB24-34). Neither number is wrong. It just means the plinth is a cheap flourish on a big vanity and a real line-item decision on a small one — which is awkward, because the small one is where it tends to look best.

A powder room has one piece of furniture in it, and people look at it for the whole of a short visit. That is the setting where a vanity on a plinth earns its premium: it stops reading as the bottom half of a kitchen run and starts reading as a washstand. In a family bathroom with a tub, a tall linen cabinet and a double run, the same detail has to compete with everything else and mostly gets lost.

This green makes the argument stronger. A painted piece in a muted sage lifted off the floor is close to what painted country furniture has looked like for two centuries, and it is the single most common way people use a colour they would not commit a whole kitchen to — one green vanity in one small room. If that is your plan, judge the colour on a door sample in the powder room itself, under the bulb you will actually use. It is a greyed sage, not a bright pistachio, and a small windowless room will push it greyer still.

Proportion is the part to check. A footed base under a 24-inch cabinet raises the eye line of a small object, and in a room with a low ceiling or a small mirror that can make the vanity look perched. Tape the outline of the cabinet and the height it will finish at onto the wall before deciding. Two minutes with painter's tape answers what no rendering will.

The platform sizes run 24, 30, 36, 42, 48 and 60. The vanity cabinets in this finish do not stop there. There are sink bases at 21, 27 and 33 inches (GPG VSB21-34 at $422.50, VSB27-34 at $451.75, VSB33-34 at $484.25), and drawer bases and door bases down to 12 inches. A single 27-inch or 33-inch vanity has no platform code of its own.

Most of the time the answer is that the platform is sized to the whole run, not to one box. A 36-inch run can be a 24-inch sink base beside a 12-inch drawer stack, and a V36 platform goes under both, tying two cabinets into one piece of furniture. That is the better use of it anyway: two boxes standing on one base read as a single object, where two boxes on a toe kick read as two cabinets pushed together.

• Run adds up to a listed size (24, 30, 36, 42, 48, 60): order that size and say which boxes stand on it.
• Run falls between sizes (27, 33, 39): ask before ordering. Whether the next size up can be trimmed, or whether the vanity should change width by three inches, is a conversation, not a guess.
• Run is longer than 60: two platforms end to end will show a joint. Decide where it lands — ideally under the line between two cabinets, never mid-door.
• Freestanding vanity with a tall cabinet beside it: the tall cabinet sits on its own base or toe kick. Do not assume a vanity platform extends under it.

A 60-inch double carries two basins, a stone top that can weigh well over a hundred pounds on its own, and two people leaning on it every morning. On a toe kick that load goes straight to the floor along the whole length. On a footed platform it goes to the feet, and the question is how many feet and where.

The bun feet listings say they are sold individually, one per visible base corner. That is a visual rule, and a four-foot layout under 60 inches is a long unsupported span. The platform may be built to carry it; the listings do not say. For anything 48 inches or wider, ask us whether a centre support is recommended, and where it would sit so it stays out of sight behind the front face. Same for the floor: a heavy vanity on four small contact points wants a solid, flat subfloor, which is worth confirming before tile goes down rather than after.

Every family also has a TP1821 size, flat at $409.50 and footed or profiled at $578.50. The letters read as a tall pantry 18 inches wide and 21 deep, which would be a vanity-depth linen tower. The catch is that no such cabinet appears in this finish's current list — the tall pantries carried here are 12 and 24 inches deep. So this is the one size on the page we would not order without a conversation about what it is meant to stand under. If you are planning a linen tower beside a vanity, the free 3D design is the place to have it drawn with real codes, and a designer replies within one business day.

1. Add up the vanity run in inches, box by box, and find the platform size that matches it.
2. If it does not match, stop and ask rather than rounding up.
3. Decide flat or footed with the per-inch table in mind — on a small vanity the footed step is most of the cabinet's price again.
4. For 48 inches and up, ask about centre support.
5. Get the finished height in writing and hand it to whoever templates the top.
6. Order the footed or flat base with the vanity, not later — it is the part the cabinet stands on.

Everything here is pre-assembled with the rest of the Allure line and ships in 7 days to 3 weeks. The cabinets these bases carry are on the vanities page, the separate feet are on the bun feet page, and the full colour story lives on the collection page.