English Country & Cottage kitchen cabinets
Lived-in practicality: oak dressers, settles, plate racks, painted cupboards and plain panelled doors.
For a modern kitchen, the style offers a welcome alternative to rows of upper cabinets: a built-in dresser, open pantry shelving and a range set into a hearth-like alcove.
Kitchen cabinetry sets the character of a house more than any other woodwork. Historic kitchens rarely had continuous upper and lower cabinets; they used dressers, hutches, built-in cases and work counters, which is why period kitchens feel more like furnished rooms.
10 examples on this page
Old Kitchen with China Hutch and Hearth, Telfair House, Savannah (1890)
Pine Kitchen Dresser, Clitheroe Castle Museum
Apprentice-Made Oak Welsh Dresser
Welsh Dresser at Bedford Museum
Housekeeper's Room Dresser, Copped Hall, Essex
Kitchen at Townend Farmhouse, Troutbeck, Cumbria
Kitchen Cupboard, Charlecote Park, Warwickshire
End Dresser in the Kitchen, Lanhydrock House, Cornwall
Kitchen at the Piermaster's House, Albert Dock, Liverpool
Thorne Miniature Room: English Cottage Kitchen of the Queen Anne Period, 1702–14
What a custom English Country & Cottage piece costs
Published price ranges for custom kitchen cabinets. Each example above is tagged with the tier a faithful version would need.
$450–$650
per linear foot, installed in Colorado
Clean, simple geometry: slab, Shaker, flat panel or straight profiles, in paint-grade wood or plain or rift white oak.
$650–$950
per linear foot, installed in Colorado
Period detail: raised or beaded panels, applied mouldings, inset construction and simple relief or fretwork in stain-grade hardwood.
$950–$1,500
per linear foot, installed in Colorado
Carved and showpiece work: 3D carving with hand finishing, curves and arches, complex joinery and premium species.