Crafted Bespoke Doors that Add Personality and Lasting Style to Your Kitchen

From preparing meals to socialising with family and friends, our kitchens sit at the heart of the home and increasingly need to work hard to keep up with the demands of busy modern life. As such an important room within the home, kitchens are also spaces that many of us want to put our own stamp on with unique design features and flourishes that feel authentically us.

Here we explore how to choose crafted bespoke cabinetry to add a sense of personality and character to the kitchen in a way that will also continue to look great and deliver optimal functionality into the future.

Choose Textured Doors For a High-End Finish

Bespoke kitchen doors with texture, whether that's actual tactile texture or simply visual texture, can help to create depth and contrast within a space that delivers a truly high-end, designer finish.

When thinking about texture, our Valore slab style doors immediately spring to mind, as they are available in a wide selection of unique finishes that will make a style statement in your home. As well as warm natural wood finishes, such as natural Kendal oak, there are also more unexpected options, such as porcelain gold grey, which has striking golden veining throughout, or black mustang nero, which features rich black and brown tones in unique patterns.

Create a Sophisticated Lived-In Look with Chic Glass-Fronted Cabinets

Incorporating glass-fronted cabinets into your kitchen can help to break up expansive cabinetry and allow you to create a kitchen that feels both lived-in and personal to you.

Replacing some of the central panels on our Bella Harlem doors with glass can enable you to showcase some of your favourite ceramics and glassware, while also keeping those items protected from dust. You could also choose to replicate this look on our Bella Stratford doors, which have smaller panels that can offer a glimpse inside the cabinet without needing to commit to having the entire interior on display at all times.

Bring the Outside In with Natural Materials

The desire to bring elements of the outside into our homes is something that isn't showing signs of slowing. In fact, it's something we're seeing even more within the kitchen design sphere, particularly as kitchen spaces often lead out onto patios, balconies and gardens.

Natural materials can provide strong foundations for a kitchen and cabinetry with a natural finish can bring so much warmth, depth and interest to a space. Cabinets with a classic look, such as our Bella Richmond doors, work particularly well in a natural finish. There are many different options to consider, including Halifax natural oak, Lissa oak, and Canella oak.

Pro Tip: Bespoke kitchen doors with a natural wood finish can instantly make your kitchen space look and feel warmer and more inviting.

Achieve a Traditional and Contemporary Look with Slimline Shaker Cabinets

With their timeless features and sophisticated simplicity, Shaker-style kitchens certainly aren't going anywhere anytime soon. However, they are now evolving, and new slimline styles have the potential to offer even more versatility within contemporary homes.

Our Waterford Slimline Shaker doors have a slimmer frame and perfectly tread the line between classic design features and contemporary minimalism. Whether you have a modern new build property or a period townhouse, slimline Shaker cabinetry has the versatility to look stunning in your kitchen for many years to come.

Select Matt Finishes for a Modern Look

While glossy finishes still have their place in contemporary kitchen design, particularly in spaces that will benefit from their light-reflecting qualities, matt cabinets have a soft, almost velvet finish that screams sophistication.

Our Ora slab style doors come in a selection of supermatt finishes, which have a soft touch feel. This finish is also stain-resistant and comes with an antibacterial treatment, which is perfect for busy contemporary kitchen spaces. Plus, they're easy to clean and don't show smudges as easily as other finishes.

Choose Earthy Tones for Versatility and Longevity

Over the last handful of years, we've seen bolder kitchen cabinet colours increase in popularity as more of us want to put our own stamp on our interiors. But with so many different colour options now available, choosing the perfect shade can be tricky.

Earthy tones have both versatility and longevity, as these natural hues have an inherent sense of tranquillity and warmth. From sage greens to rusty reds, colours that can be found in nature pair beautifully with natural materials that are also often used within kitchens, including stone, wood and marble. So, if you're hoping to design a kitchen that feels cohesive and calm, consider earth tones when selecting your new cabinet doors.

Pro Tip: If you can't choose just one colour, why not incorporate two different colours into your kitchen? Earth tones pair wonderfully together, so you could choose different colours for your base and mounted cabinets, or highlight a particular feature in your kitchen with different coloured cabinetry, such as an island or pantry.

Frequently Asked Questions

Are glossy kitchen cabinets easy to keep clean?

Although gloss finishes can have a tendency to show up marks and fingerprints more easily than some other finishes, all they'll need is a quick wipe with a clean cloth to continue looking their best.

Will dark coloured kitchen cabinet doors make my kitchen feel small?

It's easy to assume that white kitchen cabinets will look best in a small space, however this isn't always the case. In fact, sometimes dark or richly coloured cabinets can actually be the better choice, as they offer a sense of contrast that can bring depth to your space and trick the eye into thinking the room is larger than it really is.

Is it easy to replace kitchen cabinet doors?

All you need to do is choose your new doors, enter a few measurements into our website during the ordering process, and wait for your new doors to arrive.