Design & Style Choices for your Handmade Kitchen
Design and style choices
Because our standard product design is easy to customise and really create it as your own, It's perfect for every kitchen.
We now have two main standard products -
Signature Shaker - a Cock Beaded Frame.
You can add beading to the centre panel on both options
There are also lots of options meaning you can really make it your own are:-
*Beading on the doors
*Hinge Choices
*Handles
*Colours
*End panels
*Cornice
*Plinth
*Bespoke Items
Frame Style -
Simple Shaker
Signature Shaker
Beading options
*Beading on the doors
Our standard product comes with a plain frame and also a plain shaker door
as seen below we call this our DORSET kitchen Style
From this standard product we can add beading to the internal door panels, as a result you end up with a more decorative design.
Examples of this design can be seen below
Plain and Simple Shaker
Here is a beautiful example of this with a beaded door panels.
This kitchen has out LONDON bead
*Hinge Choices
We have two main choices on this -
1) Butt Hinges - this is where the Hinge is visible from the outside of the cabinet and gives a very traditional look, We have several colours available (See below) and you would tend to match them up to whatever colour handle you are choosing.
2) Soft Close Concealed hinges - With these the hinge is not Visible from the Outside of the cabinet and when you close the cabinet it gently closes on its own.
Which to Choose?
Butt Hinge -
Benefits - Traditional look, Gives the kitchen a real elegance and traditional feel. Fixed hinge - wont drop or move over time so once fitted you shouldn't have any maintenance Disadvantages - No adjustment - More tricky to fit as you need to get it right as there is no adjustment, you physically need to close the door and have a magnet to hold the door closed, these can sound a little clunky. You can add a "soft close dampener" to counteract this clunkiness
Soft Close Concealed Hinge -
Benefits - Adjustable so you can align the door easily and make adjustments easily. Door will slowly and softy close with a small push, taking away the clunkiness of Butt Hinges. Gives a more modern look to a kitchen.
Disadvantages - As they are adjustable slowly over use and time doors can drop (especially if they are large or have spice racks etc on them) However they are easily adjustable back up again. Can take away from the "Traditional" feel of an In-Frame Kitchen.
Butt Hinge colours - Typically you would match them up to the handles you are choosing
*Handles
The design of handle you choose for your Handmade kitchen will really change the overall look of the kitchen, traditionally Cups and Knobs work well with In-frame cabinetry - but if you want a more modern look you can add bars
Here are two examples -
See our galleries
*Colours
The final choice of colour will probably be the biggest single thing that determines the finished look - from Off whites to Bold dark colours
Here are some examples
*End panels
A huge choice on panels that again will alter the final look
From clean and sleek, to Georgian, to Country Kitchen
-Plain panels
-V Grooved panels
-Panelled Panels
*Cornice
The Cornice that sits on top of the cabinets can also create a different look
We have several standard styles available - but if you want something different its not a huge problem
*Plinth
Our standard cabinet has legs that come to the floor on both sides.
This would normally have plinth set back behind so the legs are visible.
We can however provide skirting that goes along the front to create a more traditional kitchen look - or even to cut off the legs and have a long unbroken length of plinth set back - its easy to change
Skirting Attached
*Bespoke Items
Need something to compliment the standard kitchen - but have an odd space? Because of our range this is not a problem, we can make cabinets to compliment our standard range from our bespoke materials range.
Check out Our prices here