The end is near! But first – let’s make beautiful kitchens!
Shaker philosophy was to build heaven on Earth. They were a deeply religious group with two convictions: that the end was close and that, until then, it was important to live an organised life.
The Shakers built their own houses and furniture, as well as refining woodworking tools such as the circular saw. They became renowned as highly skilled craftsmen..
The Shakers’ philosophy revolved around these three concepts:
Honesty. Functionality. Simplicity.
When they built furniture, they avoided unnecessary decoration. The focus was on shapes and proportions, often with creative solutions that gave an extra function.
Out of this, a unique and beautiful style was born. Classic, ascetic, beautiful.
The Shaker movement is now almost extinct, but their aesthetics remain. It played a part in the rise the Funkis style in the 30’s, and has influenced many furniture designers over the years.
The Shakers built their own houses and furniture, as well as refining woodworking tools such as the circular saw. They became renowned as highly skilled craftsmen..
The Shakers’ philosophy revolved around these three concepts: Honesty. Functionality. Simplicity.
When they built furniture, they avoided unnecessary decoration. The focus was on shapes and proportions, often with creative solutions that gave an extra function.
Out of this, a unique and beautiful style was born. Classic, ascetic, beautiful.
The Shakers had a passion for wood but, while other carpenters imported exotic woods, the Shakers chose to use local wood, such as maple, cedar, chestnut, birch and oak.
Using this same philosophy, we build our kitchens in solid wood. We use solid ash in the fronts and doors, and knot-free pine in the frames. It is an incomparably beautiful material that lasts for generations.
Solid wood is a good deal calculated over its lifespan, for both you and the environment. So if you want a real wooden kitchen, we have the kitchen for you.
The typical shaker door consists of five parts: Four parts for the frame and a “mirror” in the middle.
The shaker door is without profiling – the edges are completely straight. In the same way, the shaker carpenters have been building doors since the middle of the 19th century.
The kitchen doors are built in solid ash, with a birch plywood mirror and are hand painted with linseed oil paint. Therefore, it is possible to sense beautiful brushstrokes that gossip about the good craftsmanship that lies behind.
The Shaker kitchen has an incredibly characteristic socle. The kitchen actually stand on their socles. If you want an external socle instead, you can choose this in the final stage of your order.
The color scheme in a Shaker kitchen is derived from their love of nature. The Shaker followers made their colors from different clays, which inspired today’s color palettes. We paint our kitchens by hand with linseed oil paint. The linseed oil paint we use has a semi-gloss surface that is easy to keep clean. We have selected some base colors that all go well with the shaker aesthetic. You can see them here below. You can also choose your own color for a small extra cost (for transport and handling).
Perhaps the most characteristic feature of a shaker kitchen is that the doors and drawer fronts are aligned with the body. There is a space between the doors, which gives the impression of classic beauty.
Our Shaker kitchens, like the Shaker style in general, lack unnecessary frills. They are beautifully stylish in their simplicity. (The Shakers themselves felt that ornaments were unnecessary, and even sinful.)
Typical Shaker kitchens often have open shelving which gives a more airy impression. This style works well to complement or replace high wall cabinets.
Another important detail in our kitchens is the hinges, which are based on the classic Swedish design – staple hinges in untreated steel with a conical knob painted in the same colour as the woodwork.
The design of our kitchens is taken from two directions: partly from aesthetics that the Shakers created a couple of hundred years ago, partly from Scandinavian design tradition. The Shaker style is in the details, kitchen design at its best!
The lack of specific details – everything is stripped and clean – gives it a timeless style. In England, where Shake kitchens are common, they often have a rural look – rustic and sturdy – but our Scandinavian version is neater and more contemporary.
A Shaker Kitchen can be combined with classic attributes, such as tongue and groove panelling, or more modern materials such as stone floors and countertops.
Therefore, a Shaker kitchen suits most homes. Not only is it beautiful, but you will also have a fascinating story to entertain your guests with.
Our kitchens are based on a modular system with great variety. If the modules are still not enough and special adaptations are needed, we will fix that too.
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