Kitchen Styles

At The Handmade Kitchen Company, we have been crafting outstanding kitchens for more than 23 years. We have created and perfected hundreds of designs over these years, to suit a wide range of personalities, spaces and budgets.

All of our creations are unique. However, every one of our kitchens is centred around the Shaker Design philosophy.

Whilst delivering the finest finish possible means that no two kitchens have ever been the same, initially, we’ll show you our principal styles of Shaker kitchens. Choosing the style you favour empowers us with an initial design-led brief, set jointly with you, that will lay the foundations for your kitchen’s unique design aesthetic. Additionally, some of our clients like to blend different aspects of our styles across their designs – your kitchen furniture will be truly bespoke – the design details should be unique to you!

You will notice we have split our kitchen collection, below, into the Classic Shaker, Traditional Shaker and Handleless. Each style has subtle differences, not necessarily evident to the untrained eye, however, each will give you a sense of the kitchen being truly yours.

Classic Shaker Style Kitchens

What features define our Classic Shaker Style?

The simplistic door design is the most noted feature of our Classic Shaker style. Typically, the doors are manufactured without beading, although we have added differing beaded details for many of our clients as they preferred that aesthetic.

The Classic style will be complimented by your choice of our three plinth options. The Prominent External plinth, which adds presence and grandeur with its substantial proportions. The Inline plinth, which is integrated into the cabinet itself, presenting with a clean, upright linear interplay with your chosen floor surface, or the Recessed plinth, which presents with a more understated finish, enabling the cabinets and doors an enhanced position of prominence with your chosen design.

Your Classic Shaker Style is a kitchen designed and traditionally crafted specifically for your requirements; all of the completed designs are hand painted in a durable paint colour of your choice with absolutely everything being hand manufactured to order. This is a highly customisable kitchen style with many options at your disposal to suit your lifestyle. Our Classic Shaker style kitchens elegantly blend form and function, resulting furniture of exceptional quality.

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Traditional Shaker Style Kitchen

What features are unique our Traditional Shaker Style?

The standout feature of our Traditional Style Kitchen does exactly that. The doors feature a raised centre moulding, archetypally substantial, traditional, presenting with what some might consider a somewhat Farmhouse aesthetic, especially when paired with our Recessed or External Plinth options.

However, our Traditional style can be complimented by your choice of any of three plinth options. The Prominent External plinth, which adds presence and grandeur with its substantial proportions. The Inline plinth, which is integrated into the cabinet itself, presenting with a clean, upright linear interplay with your chosen floor surface, or the Recessed plinth, which presents with a more understated finish, enabling the cabinets and doors an enhanced position of prominence with your chosen design.

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Handleless Kitchens

What features define our Handleless Style?

This is a linear handleless kitchen design, which incorporates clean lines. A contemporary take on the traditional panelled design, with its pronounced mouldings.

The functionality of the kitchen is not less than a kitchen with handles, since there is a hidden handle you can use which has been moulded into the design of the door or drawer, either via a ‘j-pull’ handle or ‘chamfer’.

Other design options available are a ‘push-to-open/self-closing mechanism’, which allows you to keep the linear design in areas that might be harder to reach.

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