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Mixing Shaker Style and Traditional Cabinets?

10 years ago

Hi everyone! I'm new to posting here but have often visited GardenWeb for reviews and great information!

My husband and I are finishing our basement and we like to entertain, so we are building in a fairly large (by my standards anyway) kitchenette. I've attached the rendered design from my KD. (Ignore the wall color and floors, we have light blue walls and dark mahogany "wood look" tile floors.)

I love shaker cabinets, and the original plan was to go with white and espresso shaker cabinets. But we received door samples today and my husband is insisting on a more traditional door style for the stained wood "hutch" cabinets and island.

I'm not convinced mixing white shaker cabinets with a traditional cabinets is going to look good. I've spent the last couple hours scouring the Internet for pictures, to avail.

Anybody here on GardenWeb have pictures to share or an opinion on the matter? I'll follow up with pictures of the door styles.

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10 years ago

If you did dark walnut knobs on the white cabinets, and did the dark wood hutch with a dark wood top so it actually looked like a separate piece of furniture, it could work. And use a different cabinet and counter for the island as well. Maybe something with some color. The problem is that you're trying to make it look like a fitted kitchen instead of an unfitted one. The unfitted look is where the idea of the different cabinet styles together originated, and emulating that means making the style work harder than just two different cabinets.

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Neenerz
Original Author
10 years ago
White Shaker Style Doors:
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Neenerz
Original Author
10 years ago
Traditional Style Doors:

(PS - These are from Kitchen Resource Direct)
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Neenerz
Original Author
10 years ago
Thanks for your suggestions hollysprings!

I don't like the idea of walnut knobs on the white cabinets... in my head it looks country and that's not my style at all.

I was planning to use polished nickel bin pulls on the drawers and polished nickel oval knobs on the cabinet doors. Also, I forgot to mention that the perimeter counter would be black granite and the island would be carrera marble (or something similar).

Your idea of a dark wood top for the hutch is interesting. I'll definitely consider that! But I'm still worried about the two different style doors being so close in proximity and so different from each other...

I'd love to do a color island, but KRD doesn't have any color options I like and custom paint is outside the budget for the time being. :(
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springroz
10 years ago
I think it looks BETTER to make the different color cabinets a different door, also. Ours are not connected, but I did a similar cabinet door on my hutch just across the pathway, with shaker kitchen cabinets in cream.

Nancy
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motherof3sons
10 years ago
We did a detailed door in cherry and painted shaker door. Light granite on the perimeter and walnut for island (the island is painted the same color as the shaker cabs).
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