Modern Shaker Style Kitchens

What are the key features of my Handmade Modern Shaker?

What are the key elements of my Handmade Modern Shaker Kitchen?

Sink: Your choice of ceramic farmhouse/butler style sink or a stainless steel undermounted style.
Worktop: Your choice of maintenance-free Quartz, a natural solid wood, a combination of Quartz & Wood, Granite or Corian.
Furniture: Traditionally crafted mortice and tenon jointed doors, dove tail drawer boxes. Doors with optional soft-close or traditional butt hinges, drawer boxes on soft close runners. The choice of a plain front frame or traditional half round cock bead fitted to the frame around each door & drawer.
Carcasses: Our carcasses are traditionally made from your choice of solid Pine with dove tail joints, solid Oak, Walnut veneer, Birch Ply or an Oak Veneer – as we offer a truly bespoke service.
Storage: Highly practical - Doors can be set on a drawer boxes, especially useful under your sink. The option to have an internal draw inside a deeper front drawer.
Paint: Your choice of colour in a quality durable paint.

What brands do we feature?

Paint: Farrow & Ball, Little Greene, Dulux, Crown, Sandersons and Paint & Paper Library.
Sinks: Blanco, Franke, Reginox and Villeroy & Boch.
Taps: Perrin & Rowe, Quooker, Blanco.
Appliances: Sub-Zero & Wolf, ILVE, Natufia and DeManincor.

The best thing about our handmade kitchens is combining your favourite elements from each of our styles and designs to create something truly unique. I look forward to working with you on your project – Nicholas Bridger

Each kitchen featured here on our website is an actual example of our work, photographed with the kind permission of our clients, or by the proud client themselves, eager to show off their new kitchen! They are not generic showroom examples. Please click on an image to see more pictures of that kitchen. If you have any questions or need further information, please don’t hesitate to complete our contact form, call and speak to us directly on 01279 506616, or send us an email with your plans and requirements.

Modern Shaker Kitchens: Frequently Asked Questions

What is a modern Shaker kitchen?

A modern Shaker kitchen takes the Shaker tradition (the simple five-piece door, the honest proportions, the hand-painted finish) and strips back the more decorative classic detailing (cock-bead mouldings, deep cornices, country-house touches) for a cleaner, simpler look. The result still reads as a Shaker kitchen, but feels at home in contemporary open-plan spaces, new-build properties and architect-led extensions.

What is the difference between modern, classic and traditional Shaker?

Modern Shaker is the simplest of the three: in-frame or lay-on, painted in cleaner monochrome or two-tone palettes, often without the cock-bead. Classic Shaker sits in the middle: in-frame, hand-painted, with cock-bead detailing and a softer period feel. Traditional Shaker goes furthest, with deeper mouldings, decorative pilasters, plate racks and dressers, and a full country-house aesthetic.

Can I have a handleless modern Shaker kitchen?

Yes. We regularly design modern Shaker kitchens with handleless cabinetry on the lower runs (using J-pulls or push-to-open mechanisms) while keeping the five-piece door for the wall units and the island. It is a particularly popular combination for open-plan spaces where the visual line of the cabinetry is part of the architecture.

What colours suit a modern Shaker scheme?

Modern Shaker kitchens look superb in single-colour schemes (deep greens, navy, charcoal, off-white) and two-tone pairings (a darker island against a paler perimeter, or a warm neutral with a contrasting tall run). We hand-paint in Farrow & Ball, Little Greene, Paint & Paper Library, Sanderson and Crown, with full colour matching available.

How long does a modern Shaker kitchen take?

Most kitchens take twelve to sixteen weeks from final design sign-off, with installation itself typically two to three weeks on site. Open-plan extensions or new-build kitchens can take longer where the kitchen is part of a wider building programme.

Where do you install modern Shaker kitchens?

Our Bridgers Barn showroom is in Great Hallingbury near Bishop's Stortford. We regularly install modern Shaker kitchens across Essex, Hertfordshire and north London, with occasional projects further afield in Cambridge and the wider Home Counties. Recent projects have run from north London townhouses through to commuter-belt new builds in Hertfordshire and Essex.