When most people hear the words ‘luxury farmhouse kitchen’ the phrase conjours up images of solid oak kitchens or a solid natural wood kitchen with a large wooden table at its centre.
It's only natural to want a beautiful handmade luxury kitchen tailored to your exact needs and to complement your lifestyle. However it can be very difficult and frustrating if you are visiting showroom after showroom where all the kitchens look more or less the same whether the display highlights modern, traditional, shaker or Edwardian kitchens.
Many people ask me “What is a Shaker Kitchen ?” so here is a potted history of the Shaker Kitchen and how it fits in with today’s need to cook, dine and relax in aesthetically pleasing surroundings.
By definition the word ‘Traditional’ means ‘long-established’ – a term just as applicable to the Broadway Kitchens company as it is to the bespoke kitchens that it manufactures. We each have our own idea of what we consider to be ‘traditional’ and our vision can be inspired by personal recollections of childhood or our first own happy home.
Victorian-style kitchens with ornately carved corbels, pillasters, cornices, pelmets and architraves with intricately detailed acanthus leaves gave way to the plainer Edwardian kitchens with stylised shapes of ‘hearts and flowers’ but still displaying detailed shape and form.
Everybody has their own idea of fashion and style but standard kitchen doors and worktops will almost certainly look the same wherever they are installed; whereas Broadway’s thinking is to give each customer a kitchen that not only fits the room to perfection, but also suits their own taste and style in a totally unique way to express them and their lifestyle.