Designed and fitted across all of mainland scotland
The shaker door has outlasted every kitchen trend since we opened in 1983, and it is still the door we are asked for most on the handmade side of the business. A simple five-piece frame, a flat centre panel, and a painted finish chosen to suit the light in your room.
Tell us about the room, or upload the plans you already have, and we will come back within one working day. Our Edinburgh showroom at 24 Dalziel Place, EH7 5TP is open by appointment.
Our shaker kitchens are built as Cameron Bespoke - hand-made cabinetry from our own joinery, sized to the room rather than to a standard cabinet grid.
North-facing Scottish rooms drink colour. We paint samples and leave them with you for a few days so you see the colour at breakfast and at night before ordering.
Shaker doors take knobs, cup pulls and bar handles equally well. Aged brass and unlacquered brass patinate over time, which most clients prefer to a mirror finish.
Put the budget into the run people see and use. Painted shaker fronts on the main runs with a simpler treatment in a utility room is a sensible way to hold the cost down.
A shaker door is five pieces: two stiles, two rails and a flat centre panel, with no moulding and no fuss. The panel floats in a groove so it can move with the seasons without splitting the paint, and the frame width is what sets the character - a narrow 60 mm frame reads contemporary, a wider frame reads country.
There are two honest routes to a shaker kitchen with us. Cameron Bespoke builds it in our own joinery, hand-painted and sized to the room. Impuls IP 4250 is a framed shaker range made to order in Germany, in a fixed palette but at a lower price per metre and a shorter lead time. Same look at ten paces, different construction and different budget - we quote both.
North-facing rooms flatten colour, so mid-tone greens, partridge grey, putty and off-whites tend to hold up better than very pale greys, which can turn cold. We paint sample doors and leave them with you so you see the colour at breakfast and under warm light at night before the order goes in.
Shaker fronts take cup pulls, knobs and slim bar handles equally well - aged brass and unlacquered brass patinate, chrome and matt black stay put. For worktops, a quartz or sintered surface such as Silestone or Dekton gives a hard-wearing top that still reads traditional, and an oak or walnut section on an island softens the room.
A shaker door sits on the face of the cabinet. An in-frame door sits inside a timber frame fixed to the cabinet front, which is more work to build and costs more. Both can use the same five-piece door.
Yes. A shaker door in a single deep tone, with slim handles, a stone worktop and no cornice, reads as quiet and contemporary rather than country.
Longer than a German kitchen, because it is built for your room. We will give you a firm lead time at the point of order rather than a guess at enquiry stage.
More detail on budgets in our kitchen buying guides.