Galaxy Pistachio Green Single Door Base Cabinets

A bar has a different shape of storage from a kitchen. The things in it are small and many — openers, jiggers, strainers, coasters, cocktail napkins, a bag of limes — or tall and upright: bottles. A drawer over a door handles both in one box. The drawer takes the small kit where you can see it from above, and the door hides the bottles standing up on the cabinet floor.

Width matters because the run is short. Once a 24″ appliance is in a sixty-inch alcove there are thirty-six inches left, and they have to be split either side of it or stacked at one end. That is exactly the range this page covers: 12, 15, 18 and 21 inches, all 34½″ high and 24″ deep, pre-assembled, with the door on Blum soft-close hinges and a ⅝″ solid-wood dovetailed drawer over it. Past 21 inches a Galaxy base grows a second door and moves to the double door page.

Undercounter beverage fridges and wine coolers are usually sold in 15″ and 24″ widths. Treat that number as a starting point rather than an opening size: the appliance’s install sheet gives the cut-out it wants, and some ask for a little extra width for the door or for air at the sides. Get that figure first, subtract it from the alcove, and the rest of the arithmetic is below.

Two observations from the table. A symmetrical run — appliance centred, matched boxes either side — reads as a piece of furniture, and it is what we draw when the bar faces a seating area. An appliance at one end suits a corridor, where the fridge door wants to swing toward the wall rather than into the walkway, and it frees the longer stretch of counter for pouring. Either way, if the alcove does not come out on a three-inch step, the remainder goes into a scribed filler at the wall — GPG BF3 at $26.00 or GPG BF6 at $43.55 from the filler listings — rather than into a gap beside the appliance.

A kitchen run hides most of its cabinet sides against walls and appliances. A bar rarely does. When the run stops short of a doorway, or stands against one wall of a room with open floor on both sides, each end box shows its flank to anyone walking past — and the plain side of a box is not meant to be the face of a piece of furniture.

There are two ways to finish it from the decorative accessories. GPG BEP, the base end panel, is $149.50; it is the heavier, dressier part, and it is what we fit on an end that is looked at square-on from a sofa or a dining chair. GPG SK BASE, the base end skin, is $62.40: a finished sheet laid over the side, right where the end is seen but not studied, such as the flank facing down a corridor. Two panels add $299.00 to a bar; two skins add $124.80; one of each, which is common, adds $211.90. A toe kick in the finish runs along the bottom — GPG TK8, an eight-foot length, is $55.90 and covers a short run in one piece.

One point about the colour here, because it changes the order. Every part that shows — panel, skin, filler, toe kick — has to be ordered in the same finish, from the same line, at the same time. A neutral white filler bought elsewhere can pass at the back of a run; a green one cannot, and there is no published paint equivalent to have one sprayed to match. Put the finishing parts on the same order as the boxes.

Plenty of people like the idea of a green cabinet and are not ready to put one on every wall of the kitchen. A bar is where that hesitation costs least. Two boxes and their finishing parts come to roughly a thousand dollars at the prices above, the kitchen next door can stay Frost, Linen or Dove, and if tastes move in ten years the piece that has to change is five feet long, not the whole room. We would rather see a first green cabinet go in there than talk someone into a full green kitchen they are unsure of.

It helps to know what the colour actually is. The name suggests a bright nut-green; the door is nothing like that. Measured off the swatch it averages close to #929488, a muted, greyed sage — much nearer a grey-green than a leaf green, and not olive or teal either. In a bar that works in its favour: it sits comfortably beside warm wood flooring, walnut or oak furniture and a white or marble-look top, and it takes brass pulls, black ones or polished nickel without any of them fighting it. Where it does move is in the light. General rule for any greyed colour: warm bulbs push it toward yellow-green and a north window pulls it toward grey. That is why we tell everyone to order a door sample and tape it where the bar will stand, under the lamp that will light it at night — if you want the sample credited against the order, ask your designer.

• 12″ — the bottle box. Most spirit bottles stand around a foot tall, so a narrow box holds a row of them upright behind the door, with bar tools in the drawer above. No roll-out tray is listed this narrow, which suits a box that only has one job.
• 15″ — the recycling box. The waste pull-out for this width, GPG TC15 BLUM at $617.50, keeps empty bottles and cans out of sight at a bar that is used for parties; it is on the trash pull-out page. The drawer over it stays free for napkins and coasters.
• 18″ — the tool drawer. GPG CD-15/18, a divided insert listed for 15″ to 18″ drawers, is $201.50 and turns the top drawer into a place for jiggers, strainers, a muddler and a bottle opener; the insert listings have the rest. Behind the door, a standard roll-out tray, GPG ROD-B18 BLUM E at $201.50, brings the back row of bottles forward.
• 21″ — tall bottles and mixers. A high-sided roll-out, GPG ROD-B21 BLUM H at $253.50 on the roll-out page, keeps a row of tall bottles from toppling as it slides, with cans of mixer beside them.

Two cautions. The width in the name is the outside of the box; the face frame takes some of it back and the clear opening behind the door is not published, so if you are buying for a specific bottle, bin or insert, tell us what it is and we check it against the spec sheet. And glassware does not belong down here. It belongs overhead, where a stemware rack under a wall cabinet — GPG STMW30 at $403.00, GPG STMW36 at $425.75 — hangs glasses by the foot, and a wall wine rack such as GPG WR1818 at $383.50 keeps bottles on their sides above the counter.

The moment a bar gets a sink it changes shape. The plumbing needs a box with no drawer box in the way, and the narrowest of those in this finish is GPG SB21, a 21″ sink base at $386.75 on the sink base page. A bar sink and its faucet fit that comfortably. A sixty-inch wet bar then comes out as SB21 and GPG B15 either side of a 24″ cooler: $763.75 in cabinets before the finishing parts, with the sink at one end so its plumbing stays out of the walkway.

Plan the services before the boxes. A bar sink wants a drain and a supply in the wall behind the sink base, the fridge wants an outlet it can reach from its own position, and a bar that faces a room usually wants some light over the counter. None of that is cabinet work, but it decides which box goes where, so it has to be on the drawing before we draw the doors.

Galaxy boxes arrive pre-assembled with the doors hung and the drawers fitted, typically in 7 days to 3 weeks. A bar is small enough that the whole order is often a single shipment: two or three boxes, the end parts, a toe kick and a filler. Send us the alcove width, the appliance model and a photo of the wall, and the free 3D design service will lay it out; a designer replies within one business day and the full drawing with a quote follows within 24 to 48 hours. Builders fitting bars in several units get 20–40% off through Captivating Pro, one program with no tiers and no logins. The rest of the finish is on the collection page, and the box that suits a bar with more drawer than door is the three-drawer bank.