Custom dark wood kitchen cabinetry with integrated handles

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Shaker kitchen cabinets, 5-piece flat panel.

Shaker is the door style that anchored American kitchen design and stayed there. Five-piece flat-panel door, square edges, no ornamentation. Crateworks supplies custom shaker kitchen cabinets in paint, stain, or veneer. Framed and frameless construction.

5-piece vs 3-piece shaker

5-piece shaker: traditional construction with separate top rail, bottom rail, two stiles, and a flat center panel. Visible joint lines at the corners. The original shaker detail.

3-piece variant: routed from a single panel with the recess machined in. No joint lines. Cleaner contemporary read at a lower price. Visually similar at viewing distance.

Finish: paint, stain, veneer

Paint: most common shaker finish. Lacquer applied before shipment, in any color: whites, soft greys, sage greens, deep blues, and blacks all standard. Stain: solid-wood shaker doors in oak, maple, walnut, or cherry, stained to match the rest of the kitchen.

Veneer: budget-tier option that uses real-wood face over an MDF substrate. Visually identical to solid wood at standard viewing distances.

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Common questions

5-piece is the traditional construction with separate rails, stiles, and panel, with visible joint lines. 3-piece is routed from a single panel, cleaner and slightly cheaper. Both read as shaker at standard distances. Heritage projects favor 5-piece; budget-driven or contemporary projects often use 3-piece.
Almost anything. Most-requested colors: whites (Chantilly Lace, White Dove, Simply White), greys (Repose Gray, Worldly Gray), sage greens (Saybrook Sage, Evergreen Fog), navy/deep blues (Hale Navy, Naval), and blacks (Tricorn Black, Iron Mountain). Two-tone kitchens often run shaker uppers in white over wood-stain lowers.
Framed: traditional American, face frame visible around the door opening. Reads as period-appropriate. Frameless (European, full-overlay): omits the face frame for a cleaner contemporary read. Both work with shaker doors; pick based on the kitchen's overall style direction.
Painted shaker often uses MDF panels (stable, won't crack with humidity changes) with solid pine or poplar stiles and rails. Stained shaker uses solid wood throughout. Specify on the order based on finish.
10 to 14 weeks from approved order. Standard shaker styles ship slightly faster than custom-detail variants.

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