Shaker kitchens

The shaker style comes from a religious community in America that valued plain, well-made things. The door is simple: a flat, recessed centre panel inside a square frame. Because it is so plain, it takes on the character of whatever you put with it. Pair it with knobs, cup handles and a Belfast sink and it looks traditional. Pair it with a quartz worktop and bar handles and it looks current. That flexibility is why shaker is the style we fit more than any other.

Four types of shaker door

Our shaker range comes in four door types: real wood, wood effect, simple and plain. Real wood shaker doors can be stained so the grain shows, or painted. The other types come in a wide range of colours, and our colour matching service can match any RAL or BS paint colour, so you are not limited to a brochure.

• Real wood shaker, stained or painted, with the grain showing through the paint
• Wood effect shaker with a woodgrain finish, for the look of timber at a lower cost
• Simple and plain shaker doors in a wide range of colours
• Glazed shaker doors for display cabinets, with optional internal lighting

Units made for your room

We make every carcass from scratch in our Kirkby workshop. That matters with shaker kitchens, which often go into older houses with chimney breasts, alcoves and walls that are not quite square. In one Widnes kitchen we built floor-to-ceiling units either side of a chimney breast and brought a run of drawers forward in front of the mantel to take the hob. In an Aigburth period apartment we used double-height cupboards to make the most of high ceilings. Neither would have worked with standard sizes.

Finishing details

Details make a shaker kitchen look finished. We colour match end panels, plinths and cornice to the doors, and we can add newel posts, curved end panels, false chimney breasts and mantels. Handles are a big part of the look too, and there are over 100 on display in our showroom.

Worktops that suit shaker

Granite and quartz are popular with shaker doors, and so are oak and other solid wood tops. We have fitted white marble-look granite in Widnes, oak on an olive green kitchen in Aigburth, and square-edge laminate that looks like quartz on an Indigo blue kitchen in Kirkby. See our worktops page for the full range. We cut the worktops ourselves, including joints and sink cut-outs.

See it before you buy

We have several shaker kitchens on display in our showroom, with working appliances and different internal storage in the cupboards. One Kirkby family liked our Indigo blue display so much that they had the same style fitted at home. If you prefer, we can bring sample doors to your house instead. The design visit, 3D plan and quote are free.