Shaker Kitchen Design Collections

These kitchens are timeless, simple and beautiful, as well as being easy-to-live with and benefitting from an uncanny knack of being able to fit within any kind of interior scheme, from sleek and contemporary to cosy and classic.

 

Shaker kitchens have been around since the middle of the 18th century and are so called because of the religious group behind their design — the 'Shaking Quakers', later known as just 'Shakers'.

The Shaker community had a set of core principles and strongly believed that home fittings should all have a purpose, be practical and devoid of any unnecessary decoration — in short, they were masters at creating furniture that was simple, functional and built to last. 

They used wood to construct their kitchens and kept the cabinet knobs equally as minimalist, using simple wood fittings. Sometimes the wood was left bare, while other times they would paint the kitchens. It was not unheard of for cabinets to be combined with peg rails from which utensils could hung within easy reach.