Door profile
Shaker and flat panel cabinet doors
A flat recessed panel in a square frame. The default for good reason.
What a shaker door is
A shaker door is five pieces — two stiles, two rails and a flat panel that sits recessed inside them. It is the plainest five-piece door there is, which is exactly why it has outlasted every trend since the 1840s: there is no moulding to date it, no carving to collect grease, and it reads as either traditional or modern depending entirely on what you put around it.
The differences between the shaker doors below are the width of the frame and the treatment of the inside edge. A narrow frame reads contemporary; a wide one reads traditional. A square inside edge is the most severe, a bevel or a cove softens it. On a run of cabinets those few millimetres are most of the character of the kitchen, which is why it is worth looking at several rather than assuming a shaker is a shaker.
The honest part
What you are accepting
The flat panel is the easiest door to keep clean and the hardest to make interesting. In a small kitchen with little cabinetry it can read as plain rather than restrained, and the fix is usually the frame width or the finish rather than a different profile.
If you are painting, be aware that a five-piece shaker in solid wood has four joints across the face, and wood moves seasonally. Over years that movement shows as fine lines at the joints. It is not a defect and it is why painted doors are commonly built on MDF or HDF instead.
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Shaker and flat panel doors we supply
From both manufacturers, so you can compare the same shape across a semi-custom line and a stocked one.
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Shaker White
ShakerFull overlayPainted HDF
The plainest, brightest white in the range and the one most people picture when they say shaker. No warmth in it at all, which makes it the safest partner for a cool grey or white quartz.
Request a Shaker White sample
Shaker Antique White
ShakerFull overlayPainted HDF
A warm cream rather than a white. It sits comfortably against oak floors, brass hardware and anything with beige in it, and it fights with a cool white countertop.
Request a Shaker Antique White sample
Shaker Dove
ShakerFull overlayPainted HDF
The greige in the range — a pale grey with enough warmth to stop it reading cold. The most forgiving colour here if you have not chosen the countertop yet.
Request a Shaker Dove sample
Shaker Grey
ShakerFull overlayPainted HDF
A true mid grey with no blue or green in it. Dark enough to read as a colour rather than a neutral, which makes it a common choice for an island under lighter perimeter cabinets.
Request a Shaker Grey sample
Shaker Ivy
ShakerFull overlayPainted HDF
The darkest colour in the range short of black, and a green with enough grey in it that it reads almost neutral in a dim room and unmistakably green against white. A common choice for a lower run under pale wall cabinets.
Request a Shaker Ivy sample
Shaker Cinder
ShakerFull overlayStained solid birch frame, veneered centre panel
Charcoal with brown underneath it, and the grain still showing through — this is stained wood rather than paint, so it reads as a dark timber instead of a dark surface.
Request a Shaker Cinder sample
Shaker Black
ShakerFull overlayPainted HDF
A flat near-black. Striking on a base run or an island, and unforgiving about dust and fingerprints in a way the mid tones are not.
Request a Shaker Black sample
Shaker Navy
ShakerFull overlayPainted HDF
A deep, slightly muted navy. The one colour in the range that carries a whole kitchen without needing a second cabinet colour to break it up.
Request a Shaker Navy sample
Shaker Honey
ShakerFull overlayStained solid birch frame, veneered centre panel
A pale golden stain with the grain running clearly through it. The lightest of the wood finishes and the one that reads most contemporary against a white countertop.
Request a Shaker Honey sample
Shaker Essence Oak
ShakerFull overlaySolid rift-sawn oak frame, veneered centre panel
Rift-sawn oak, cut on an angle to the growth rings so the grain runs straight and tight instead of arching into cathedrals. That is why this reads calm where a plain-sawn oak reads busy, and it is the only oak in the US Cabinet Depot range. The plywood box is finished in matching rift oak.
Request a Shaker Essence Oak sample
Shaker Unfinished
ShakerFull overlayUnfinished solid birch frame, veneered centre panel
Raw birch with no stain and no topcoat, meant to be finished after it is hung. Worth it when you are matching an existing colour exactly or want a hand-applied finish — but it buys you a painter and a schedule rather than a delivery date, and the box arrives unfinished to match.
Request a Shaker Unfinished sample
Edgeline White
ShakerFull overlayPainted HDF
The same idea as a shaker with the frame cut right back. That narrow stile is the whole point: it makes a white kitchen read modern rather than traditional without going to a slab door.
Request a Edgeline White sample
Oxford White
ShakerFull overlayPainted HDF
A white shaker with a wide angled bevel running inside the frame, so there is a soft shadow line where a plain shaker has a hard edge. Slightly more traditional, and it photographs better.
Request a Oxford White sample
Oxford Cashmere
ShakerFull overlayPainted HDF
A warm putty — more beige than grey, and a clear step deeper than any of the off-whites. It is the colour that stops a kitchen reading stark without committing it to an actual colour.
Request a Oxford Cashmere sample
Oxford Sage
ShakerFull overlayPainted HDF
A muted grey-green, well short of a true green. It works with warm brass and with white oak, and it is the one colour here that dates a kitchen if the rest of the room fights it.
Request a Oxford Sage sample
Oxford Mist
ShakerFull overlayStained solid birch frame, veneered centre panel
Not a paint and not quite a stain. A greige base on birch with a brushed glaze wiped back over it to expose the grain, repeated until the depth is right — so the wood reads through a grey.
Request a Oxford Mist sample
Oxford Toffee
ShakerFull overlayStained solid birch frame, veneered centre panel
A warm mid-tan with the grain doing most of the work. Because it is real wood under a stain, colour and figure vary door to door — that is the material, not a mismatch.
Request a Oxford Toffee sample
Haven Dune
ShakerFull overlayPainted HDF
A quiet off-white with just enough warmth to avoid looking clinical. The Haven bevel is rounded rather than cut square, so the shadow inside the frame is a soft gradient instead of a hard line and the whole door reads gentler than a plain shaker.
Request a Haven Dune sample
Haven Sage
ShakerFull overlayPainted HDF
The same grey-green as Oxford Sage: sampled from the manufacturer’s own photographs the two colours are indistinguishable. So choose between them on the frame, not the paint — Haven’s bevel is pillowed and soft, Oxford’s is a wide hard angle.
Request a Haven Sage sample
Haven Ember
ShakerFull overlayStained solid birch frame, veneered centre panel
A dark greyed brown — warmer than charcoal, cooler than walnut. Because it is stained wood rather than paint the grain reads through the colour, and the manufacturer notes plainly that grain and shading vary from door to door.
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Shelby
ShakerFull overlay5-piece drawer option
A shaker with a slim, square frame and no bevel at all — the most restrained door Wellborn make. Available in every species in the line including both rustics.
Available in Oak, Maple, MDF, Cherry, Hickory, Rustic Hickory, Quartersawn White Oak
Request a Shelby sample
Chiswick
ShakerFull overlay5-piece drawer option
The wide-rail shaker, and the door Wellborn put on their own catalogue cover. The extra frame width reads more traditional than Shelby without adding any moulding.
Available in Oak, Maple, MDF, Cherry, Hickory, Rustic Hickory, Quartersawn White Oak
Request a Chiswick sample
Monterey
ShakerFull overlay5-piece drawer option
A shaker with a fine step machined around the panel opening, so the panel sits in a shallow frame-within-a-frame. Subtle in a photograph and clearly visible in the room.
Available in Oak, Maple, MDF, Cherry, Hickory, Quartersawn White Oak
Request a Monterey sample
Auburn Plains
ShakerFull overlay
Nearly a slab. A single fine line marks the panel and there is no frame relief to speak of, which makes it the most modern five-piece door in the range. No cherry, and no five-piece drawer front.
Available in Oak, Maple, MDF, Quartersawn White Oak
Request a Auburn Plains sample
Destin
ShakerFull overlay5-piece drawer option
A shaker softened by a shallow cove where the frame meets the panel. It takes a glaze well, because there is somewhere for the glaze to sit.
Available in Oak, Maple, MDF, Cherry, Quartersawn White Oak
Request a Destin sample
Boston
ShakerFull overlay5-piece drawer option
A flat-panel door with a pronounced coved edge inside the frame. The traditional counterpart to Shelby, and the base for the Boston raised panel.
Available in Oak, Maple, MDF, Cherry, Quartersawn White Oak
Request a Boston sample
Hamilton
ShakerFull overlay5-piece drawer option
Close to Boston with a squarer step inside the cove. One of the most-used doors in the line, and it appears throughout Wellborn’s own painted and glazed photography.
Available in Oak, Maple, MDF, Cherry, Quartersawn White Oak
Request a Hamilton sample
Outer Banks
ShakerFull overlay5-piece drawer option
A shaker with a crisp square step around the panel rather than a cove — a cleaner shadow line, and one of the newer additions to the catalogue.
Available in Oak, Maple, MDF, Cherry, Hickory, Quartersawn White Oak
Request a Outer Banks sample
Santa Fe
ShakerFull overlay5-piece drawer option
A stepped bevel runs around the panel, giving two shadow lines instead of one. Available in six species and it has a raised-panel sibling if you want the same frame with a shaped centre.
Available in Oak, Maple, MDF, Cherry, Hickory, Quartersawn White Oak
Request a Santa Fe sample
Chesapeake
ShakerFull overlay
The only beadboard door in either range — vertical beads machined into the centre panel instead of a flat field. Cottage and coastal kitchens, and a genuine nuisance to dust.
Available in Oak, Maple, Cherry
Request a Chesapeake sample
Waverly
ShakerFull overlay5-piece drawer option
A slim-framed flat panel available in all seven species including both rustics — which makes it the usual choice when someone wants a plain door in rustic hickory.
Available in Oak, Maple, MDF, Cherry, Hickory, Rustic Hickory, Quartersawn White Oak
Request a Waverly sample
Hartford
ShakerFull overlay5-piece drawer option
A wide flat-panel door with an angled bevel inside the frame, and one of only two styles offered in rustic maple. No MDF option, so this one is not available as a standard paint.
Available in Oak, Maple, Cherry, Rustic Maple
Request a Hartford sample
Devon
Shaker1/2" overlay5-piece drawer option
The half-overlay flat panel, and the one that shows the most face frame. If you want cabinetry that reads as furniture rather than as a continuous wall of doors, this is where to start.
Available in Oak, Maple, MDF, Hickory, Rustic Hickory
Request a Devon sample
Pima
Shaker1/2" overlay
A half-overlay door with a coved frame, in oak, maple or MDF. Simple, and the least expensive way into the half-overlay look.
Available in Oak, Maple, MDF
Request a Pima sampleDoor front photography is supplied by the manufacturers and is representative of the profile and the finish, not of a specific door. Wood species vary in grain and colour from piece to piece — the rustic species deliberately so — and printed and on-screen colour never matches a finished door exactly. Order a sample door before you commit to a kitchen.
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Put one in your hand
A door front in your hand under your own kitchen lights tells you more than any screen will. We keep samples of both lines at the Granby showroom — bring a countertop chip and a photo of the room and we will put them together.