Bespoke Shaker Kitchens
Beautiful Honest Cabinetry
At Cherrywood Bespoke we cultivate our designs by iconic principles of the original Shaker kitchen. Shaker kitchens are part of a wonderfully traditional and valued Shaker lifestyle dedicated to giving energy and time to what is needed, nothing superfluous, and making the necessary alluringly beautiful.
Shaker style kitchen cabinets are known for their humble and solid flat centre panel doors, surrounded by a raised frame with square edges and minimal profiling. They tend to shy away from very embellished details and lean toward timeless simple profiles on their doors and drawers. In an early Shaker kitchen you would see handcrafted simple wooden round handles, dovetail drawer detailing and solid shelving with hand carved pegs.
Standing the test of time, Shaker kitchens are indeed the most popular kitchen designs on the market today and adored by interior designers, architects and traditional cabinet makers alike.
At Cherrywood Bespoke we love to blend the old and new and offer 3 different shaker kitchen cabinet styles, which can integrate gorgeous freestanding elements with bespoke fitted shaker cabinetry.
15 Year Guarantee
We are absolutely committed to delivering a complete service and that extends beyond the final installation date of your kitchen. We offer a professional 15 Year Guarantee on all our cabinetry but you can expect our craftsmanship to last a lifetime.
Shaker Style Kitchen Furniture - Bespoke Designs For Your Lifestyle
As a bespoke kitchen company we can handmake any element of your ideal Shaker Kitchen to suit the design influence of your home and your personal and lifestyle preferences. Below are three Shaker kitchen designs that we have created to reflect both historic and up to date narratives.
Shaker kitchen styles are renowned for their adaptable look. So, whether you’re renovating a grand Victorian or Georgian room, a large or small farmhouse kitchen, a cosy cottage or a chic apartment kitchen, we guarantee that a bespoke Shaker kitchen will look at home in your space. The true Shaker philosophy embraces things which take time to make by hand, with techniques passed down by craftsmen, and the results are truly functional and durable and beautiful.
Don’t make something unless it is both necessary and useful; but if it is both necessary and useful, don’t hesitate to make it beautiful
– Shaker philosophy
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Let us take you on a journey to create a bespoke kitchen experience that is precisely yours.
Simple Timeless Design
Hover over the hotspots below to read more about our shaker kitchen layout.
Layout
We will begin with your 3 most important items – cooker, fridge and sink and create a dedicated Working Triangle. The working triangle approach means we keep these 3 items as close as possible to mimimise the number of footsteps between each and make sure your space flows effortlessyly.
We always spend a lot of time getting to you know your space and how you like to use it. Great kitchen design is often about solving layout problems so we ensure we focus on the hiccups you may currently experience and make sure we solve these in the layout and design we propose.
Aesthetics
We will focus on creating symmetry with your shaker kitchen design. Our designers will start with the cooker and use this as a focal point, building the rest of the kitchen out using this as the centre. Following this approach will help us to arrange your cabinets in a way that is both practical and pleasing to the eye.
Worktops
We are huge fans of quartz to compliment our shaker kitchens. Using natural products is a must for us where possible, and it enables us to create striking finishes. We often use either silestone or ceasarstone for our quartz worktops.
Cabinet materials
We offer either birch ply or oak ply carcasses with our shaker style kitchens. Using a good, strong sustainable ply means our carcasses are robust enough for whatever life throws at them.
Our cabinet doors and drawer frames are made using Tulipwood and Maple for durability and cohesive properties. All of our drawers are made using either solid oak or birch, but ply drawers are also another option. We can also stain the interior of your cabinetry a range of natural wood colours from rich dark Walnut to light Oak.
Cabinet furniture
Choosing handles and handle colour are worth taking some time over. We only use the hightest quality handfinished cabientry furniture and have a full range in our showroom for you to ponder. A great time to consider this is at your details meeting with our specialist interior designer who will help guide you to the perfect speciciation for your bespoke kitchen space.
Appliances
We can help advise you on your appliance needs and source them. Integrating them is advsiable to help stick to the linear and simple looks we try to maintain. We will always work with your current layout to create a functional flowing space.
Lighting
Lighting is a very important part of creating the ambience in your space, as much as it is required practically.
Overhead lighting using downlights for example can be excellent over preparation areas, whilst wall lights can look fantastic to frame a range cooker. We often suggst pendant lighting over islands & dining tables. Our interior designer is always happy to help if you have any questions.
Layout
Start with your 3 most important items – cooker, fridge and sink. A practical shaker style kitchen is one that has a natural flow around it. Keep these 3 items as close as possible in order to lessen your movement from one to another.
Aesthetics
Try to create symmetry where possible with your shaker kitchen design. Our designers will start with the cooker and use this as a focal point, building the rest of the kitchen out using this as the centre. Following this approach will help us to arrange your cabinets in a way that is both practical and pleasing to the eye.
Appliances
Don’t have more than you need. Include the most important ones, and keep the shaker kitchen style principle of simplicity at the forefront of your design plans. The last thing you want is unused appliances taking up valuable storage space.
Worktops
We are huge fans of quartz to compliment our shaker kitchens. Using natural products is a must for us where possible, and it enables us to create striking finishes. We often use either silestone or ceasarstone for our quartz worktops.
Cabinet materials
We offer either birch ply or oak ply carcasses with our shaker style kitchens. Using a good, strong sustainable ply means our carcasses are robust enough for whatever life throws at them. Our cabinet doors and drawer fronts are made using tulipwood for its durability and its cohesive properties. All of our drawers are made using either solid oak or birch, but ply drawers are also another option – it will all depend on the vision you have for your bespoke shaker kitchen.
Cabinet furniture
Choosing handles and handle colour are worth taking some time over. A great time to consider this is when looking at worktop and cabinet colour.
Lighting
The options for shaker kitchen lighting can create an array of different ambiences in your space, so it is worth some careful consideration.
What Can You Expect From High End Craftsmanship?
Our master craftsman are highly skilled in their workmanship and have meticuilous attention to detail required to guarantee premium designer kitchen quality. We work to the following standars without exception:
- Perfectly spaced gaps between each cupboard and drawer creating a seamless linear perspective
- Hinges chiselled out by hand to perfection
- Solid wood dovetail drawers
- Design led luxury hand finished handles and hinges fixed in exact positions every time
- Solid wood doors and draw fronts made from maple or tulip, crafted in complete proportion with the cabinetry frames
- Every cabinet is made by hand, finished and assembled entirely to check its balance and operation, before being dismantled and hand painted.
- Our bespoke kitchen fitters are briefed fully on every aspect of your project before they arrive to ensure the consistently high assembly standards we achieve in our results
Interior Designed Kitchen Colours
Shaker colour pallets were traditionally a mixture of natural walls combined with cabinets hand painted in matt blue, yellow, green or red paint. At Cherrywood Bespoke we love bold colours but value natural more subtle tones in combination.
We have poured for hours over the colour palettes of Farrow and Ball, Little Green, Paint and Paper Library and Mylands to create a sublime collection of colour combinations to make your design process as easy and also fun. When you come on board with us you will spend 2 – 3 hours with our interior designer to help you decide on your bespoke Shaker kitchen design. Your colour choices will be aligned with high quality worktops from quartz to granite or marble and handfinished designer handles. All our products from the wood in our workshop to the worktops and handles in our showroom are of the highest quality and locally sourced within Britain.
A Kitchen that is Precisely Yours
Kitchen and dining areas are the most loved, used and valuable part of any home. We know if you invest in a Cherrywood Bespoke kitchen, your space will become confidently individual, naturally beautiful and feel wonderfully at ease to live in. We guarantee our cabinetry for 15 years but memories last a lifetime. Whether you’re making your morning coffee or cooking with family and friends you will notice the difference and feel completely satisfied on the inside with your everyday moments in this room. Make everyday moments feel luxurious.
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