What is a Shaker Kitchen?
A Shaker Kitchen refers to the door style, which is simply a door with a raised, square edged outer frame surrounding – or ‘fielding,’ to use the correct term – a flat centre panel. At Staffordshire Kitchens and Granite, we do a lot of Shaker kitchens because of the designs flexibility and enduring style.
The Shaker style remains an ever popular and has been around for almost 300 years! It’s clean unadorned lines very much reflecting the simplistic, clean-living lifestyle of its creators – ‘The Shakers,’ a Christian, religious sect from which the furniture style derives its name.
At Staffordshire Kitchens and Granite (SKG), we do a lot of Shaker kitchens largely because the door style lends itself to any number of looks. Dress with a traditional granite with a waterfall edge, a butlers sink and round wooden doorknobs and you have a wonderful traditional kitchen - perfect for a cottage of that period town house. Dress with a slender, plain edged quartz top an undermounted - stainless steel sink and matching handles and you have a modern / contemporary style that looks just wonderful in that warehouse apartment!