Kitchens from the 1930s-1950s often had shaker doors and slab drawers. I have several different styles of doors in my kitchen--vintage shaker and two slight variations, some reused from the old kitchen. I have slab drawer fronts on all drawers, but I used some drawer fronts with slightly routed edge, again from the old kitchen. And I have two colors of painted cabinets with a black worktable/island. It's a little mixed up, but I love it.

Are you thinking all the white is slab and all the maple is shaker (or vice versa)? I think you have to be careful that it doesn't look like 2 different kitchens mixed together.

I'm doing 2 tone and kinda mixing the styles, but not by color. Uppers and tall are white and lowers are cherry. Drawers are slab partial overlay and doors are shaker inset, which isn't uncommon in bungalow kitchens. But if I remember you're going for a more modern look?

I was going to suggest what mamagoose said -do shaker doors with slab drawers. I think all the door styles should match, though.

My 1911 house has slab drawers and shaker doors. It was very common for a long time and doesn't look weird.

I did two tone and two styles. The painted are sort of shaker. The stained wood are raised. They are in the same run.

"Are you thinking all the white is slab and all the maple is shaker (or vice versa)? I think you have to be careful that it doesn't look like 2 different kitchens mixed together."

Yes, that's what I'm worried about. Or even if I do all slab drawers and all shaker doors, maybe it would be too jumbled with 2 different colors in there. In addition to liking the look of slab better, I also worry about cleaning the corners of the shakers. Basically, if they get dusty and what not, I probably won't clean them. I am not a corner-cleaner. Then again, I am doing light colors so dust and dry ingredients won't show up as much as they would if we went dark.

I think I need to either convince my husband that we should do all slab or we should do both slab and Shaker and keep to one color.

Does anyone have pictures of a 2-tone color with mixed fronts?

Another idea, whether or not we use both fronts: using modern pulls, like long SS pulls. I just looked at pics of shaker cabs with modern pulls and that would work for me.

I did white upper and dark lower, all the same drawer style, and love it. My only caution would be to make sure you go dark enough on the bottom. I looked at lots of pictures, and felt like it only really worked when there was a lot of contrast. Mid-light wood colors didn't look as good, in my opinion. So I ended up getting a way darker wood than I otherwise would have picked for the lowers, but am happy I did.

Although I love dark woods, we want to match the original blond woodwork that is throughout the house (not the furniture, but all the doors and trim and built-in linen closet). Also, our kitchen is small and I think dark woods would make it look smaller. I had originally planned to do dark, since I LOVE dark, but I fell in love with the white/light color schemes I was seeing and when I pictured my kitchen with dark wood it just didn't look right. I was very surprised with myself.

I also like all white with wood counters but my husband is adamant about not having wood counters.

Can you share the pics you like with the shaker/slab mix (even if not 2 tone)

Here's one I have saved with 2 tone and slab drawer/shaker doors.

I really hope mine is done soon so I can share!

mama goose do you have any pics handy?

I will see if I saved the pics. Sometimes I do a quick search on one specific thing and don't bother saving.

The more I think about it, the more I think using both styles will work. Seems to me when you have Shaker doors and slab drawer fronts, it's more a combo of "decorative" and "basic" than a combo of 2 different styles.

I just did a quick search but didn't use quite the right terms. Here's a couple I found. I have to go off and do other stuff for a while now, but I will get back to searching tonight.

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The slab for top drawer is normal mixed with any style especially 5 piece as the drawer front is sometimes too small for the regular style in the kitchen.

Here ya go...

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Haven't done a proper reveal but I have 2 different door styles, in 2 different colors with some drawers slab and some not. Oh, and I also have 2 different counters so pretty much if there's a rule I broke it ;-) It can work if the door styles compliment each other and the color placement is well thought out.

The dark cabinets have a bead, light cabinets are plain Shaker.

White cabinets are slab drawers

Dark cabinets are 5 pc.

To me some of the examples barncatz posted seem disjointed, where some cabinets are totally modern and others are totally traditional.

I think DML2000's works because the style is consistent if not exactly the same. The hardware is very classic. The slabs drawers don't scream modern, and the beaded shaker doesn't scream farmhouse.

I agree. The last two ("kitchen remodel" and "super clean contemporary kitchen") work, but some of the others don't. DLM, I do like yours.

Here are some more that work. I think using the same pulls is a large part of what makes it work. And I think it will look modern enough for me if we use long pulls, and my husband can get the shaker cabinets he wants.

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I forgot to mention I also have three different countertop materials. This run is vintage cabinets with Shaker doors, black marble (Karin, GW stone expert says it's limestone):

The drawer fronts and cabinet doors to left of fridge are re-used from old kitchen, added to new boxes. Cabinet over fridge is new. This pic is before ceiling trim:

Long shot, after ceiling trim was added. Island painted black, with carrara top, taken from DR:

China cabinet in DR matches vintage cabs in kitchen, painted wood top: