Grey and white shaker kitchen cabinets in Melbourne

White shaker kitchen cabinets is moderate and never out of trend of kitchen design. 

1. What is Shaker?

Shaker style is not named after its original meaning, but a group of people who migrated to American in the eighteenth century called Shaker Quakers. Shakers Quakers are well-known for their craftsmanship of the furniture. In Shakers’ society, people are united and self-sufficient. They build their houses and make their furniture all by their hands. They don’t advocate the fancy and fussy lifestyle, but a simple and elegant one. This idea of life reflects their arts and crafts. When Shakers start to sell their hand-made furniture to others for income, the people outside of Shaker society become more and more impressed by their furniture style. Many people agree that shaker style is a pure American-born style which keeps influencing the modern house style development in the later two centuries. The original shaker furniture is used to be all hand-made from solid timber. But along with the development of machinery in recent decades, hand-made shaker furniture is rare in the market. Almost the entire shaker furniture is produced by machines. 

2.Shaker kitchen cabinets

This kitchen is a set of typical shaker kitchen cabinets in Melbourne. It’s an L shape kitchen with a big island cabinet. On the wall with windows, cabinets are divided into wall hung cabinets and the ones standing on the floor. On another side, cabinets go from floor to ceiling. On the island, there is a washing area on one side and a sitting place on the other side.

3.Shaker doors & metalware

It’s easy to recognize the shaker kitchen by its doors. Shaker style door is made from 5 pieces of wood, 4 as frame and 1 in the center. You will also find the same door structures in vintage or traditional kitchen. Compare to them, shaker doors are more simple and neat.

In Australian kitchen designs, white door panels often appear, not to mention the white shaker kitchen cabinets. Traditional color of the shaker is white, beige, green, blue or natural wood pattern with clear paint. In this kitchen, the color of dark grey is used for tall cabinets and island.

To catering to the idea of simplicity, round knobs, and simple handles in this kitchen are commonly used for shaker style furniture. Besides, shell handles are also fitted for shaker style design.

4.Calacatta benchtop for shaker kitchen

Calacatta is a new and developing quartz material. Its unique patterns are impressive and attractive. And the shaker kitchen cabinet with calacatta become more and more popular now. The grey marble-like pattern from Calcutta can reduce the monotony of pure color shaker doors, gives a vivid feeling into the whole design.

5. Conclusion

Shaker kitchen cabinets are standing out from the rapidly changing house fashion, because of its simple and elegant idea about living. To make a shaker style kitchen cabinet, white color may be your first choice. A combination of white and other colors is also nice to matching modern interior design.

You’d better choose small knobs or simple handles, not the fancy ones, to keep the unity. 

There are no limits about benchtop, while I will suggest you use quartz stone, especially the Calcutta for its beauty.

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