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Cream In-Frame Beaded Shaker Kitchen — Doors That Sit Inside a 57mm Beaded Frame

The word shaker gets used for two different kitchens, and the difference is where the door goes. A standard shaker is a 19 or 20mm door hung on the outside of a frameless box, with a 5mm panel routed into its face. An in-frame kitchen has a real hardwood frame built around every opening, and the door sits inside that frame on exposed butt hinges, so what the eye reads is a run of furniture with a bead moulding running continuously around each opening rather than a grid of panels stuck to a carcass. This is the second kind. The frame is 57mm wide in solid tulipwood with a fine bead worked into its inner edge; the doors are 20mm, painted bone cream in an eggshell that sits around 10 to 15 gloss units, and hung on antique-brass butt hinges that stay visible when the door is shut. Handles are antique-brass cup pulls, sized 64mm on drawers and 96mm on doors. Underneath it is an 18mm plywood carcass on 32mm system drilling, Blum soft-close throughout, a 30mm white quartz worktop and a 100mm painted plinth. The whole point of the format is that it can be repainted in twenty years without being replaced — which is why UK buyers pay for it — and it is why the frame, not the colour, is the thing to specify carefully. This is a 20-piece OEM/ODM programme for UK and Irish importers, joinery merchants and showroom groups.

Genuine in-frame construction: a 57mm solid tulipwood face frame around every opening with a fine bead worked into the inner edge, and 20mm doors hung inside the frame — not a frameless box with a routed panel door on the front, which is what most kitchens sold as shaker actually are
Exposed antique-brass butt hinges, three per door, screwed to the frame and to the door edge so they remain visible when closed — the detail that separates in-frame cabinetry from a concealed-hinge shaker at arm's length, and the reason a door can be lifted off in seconds for painting
Bone-cream eggshell paint at 10 to 15 gloss units, spray-applied and oven-cured over a primer, matched to a supplied sample or to RAL 9010 / NCS S 0502-Y; a repaintable finish rather than a foil or a melamine face, so a scuffed stile is a brush job instead of a new door
Doors and drawer fronts 20mm MDF with a solid tulipwood lipping on the hinge edge, because a painted MDF door hung on butt hinges will eventually crush at the screw line if the edge is not lipped; shaker panel recessed 6mm with a square internal corner
Antique-brass cup pulls — 96mm on doors, 64mm on drawers, one per door and one centred per drawer front — with a two-tone aged finish that is hand-worn at the edges and does not read as new brass in a period room
18mm plywood carcass with sealed ABS edges, 8mm back panel and 32mm system drilling; solid tulipwood face frame dowelled and glued to the box, so the hinge load goes into the frame rather than into the board edge
720mm base carcass on adjustable legs behind a 100mm painted plinth, giving a 900mm finished worktop height with the 30mm quartz — the UK ergonomic standard, and the reason the frame can be levelled after the floor is laid
30mm white quartz worktop with a fine light speckle, 20mm square edge and a 620mm depth, with a 100mm matching upstand cut from the same slab; 20mm quartz, 38mm solid oak or 12mm sintered stone on the same carcass
Blum clip-on concealed hinges where a frameless variant is specified, Blum TandemBox soft-close drawers rated 30 to 70kg on all drawer banks, or a cost-equivalent Chinese runner set on the same 32mm drilling for entry price points
Standard UK module widths of 300 / 400 / 500 / 600 / 900 / 1000mm with 570mm deep base boxes, so a run can be planned on a 100mm grid and still land on standard appliance and sink apertures without a bespoke carcass
Flat-packed RTA or assembled: frames pre-fitted and dowel-drilled, doors and drawer fronts crated separately in door-number order, so a fitter opens one crate per room instead of sorting a mixed pallet

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SKU: FAME-KC-CIB · MOQ: 20 pcs · Sample order available

Specifications

Programme scope	Full in-frame kitchen run — base units, wall units, tall units and a painted plinth on one frame, one door and one colour; UK module widths of 300 to 1000mm on a 100mm grid, with a 3mm door gap held across the range; supplied flat-packed or assembled, with or without worktop.
Construction	57mm solid tulipwood face frame with a worked bead on the inner edge, 22mm thick, dowelled and glued to an 18mm plywood box; frame stiles run full height and are joined with haunched mortise-and-tenon at the corners. Frame and door are painted as one assembly where the order is assembled, so the bead line and the door edge take the same coat.
Fronts	20mm MDF shaker doors and drawer fronts with tulipwood lipping on the hinge edge, recessed panel 6mm with square internal corners, hung inside the frame with a 3mm even gap; solid tulipwood or oak doors available on the same frame for a natural-wood run; glazed, glazed-with-bead and open-frame variants on the same stile width.
Finish	Bone-cream eggshell at 10 to 15 gloss units, spray-applied water-based primer plus two topcoats, oven-cured; matched to RAL 9010, NCS S 0502-Y or a supplied sample. Tested to a 200-revolution Taber abrasion and a 72-hour 40 degrees C / 90 percent RH humidity cycle without edge lift; a touch-up pot in the batch colour ships with every order.
Carcass	18mm plywood boxes with sealed ABS edges, 8mm back panel, 32mm system drilling, 570mm deep base boxes and 720mm high base carcasses; solid tulipwood face frame dowelled to the box. 18mm E1 chipboard available as a cost-down; 330mm deep wall boxes with a 720mm height and an adjustable shelf on a 32mm system.
Worktop	30mm white quartz with a fine light speckle, 620mm deep, 20mm square edge and a 100mm matching upstand from the same slab; 20mm quartz, 38mm solid oak, 38mm laminate or 12mm sintered stone on the same carcass. Sink and hob apertures templated from the project drawing, with the sink centre line set to the 600mm sink base.
Hardware	Exposed antique-brass butt hinges, three per door, 64mm, screwed to frame and door edge; antique-brass cup pulls at 96mm centres on doors and 64mm on drawers. Blum TandemBox soft-close drawers rated 30 to 70kg as the specified option, with a cost-equivalent Chinese runner set on the same drilling for entry programmes; magnetic catches and door buffers on all single doors.
Internal fit-out	One adjustable shelf per wall unit, cutlery inserts, a 300mm pull-out waste under the sink, a corner carousel and a tall larder pull-out available as inserts on the same box; appliance and sink bases supplied open with a service void and ventilation cut-outs to the appliance drawing.
Installation	Dowel-and-cam assembly with pre-drilled frames and confirmat fixings at the frame joints; a 3m run assembles in roughly 4 to 6 hours with two fitters, about an hour more than a frameless box because the frames must be pulled together and checked for a straight bead line before the doors are hung. Wall units hang on a steel rail supplied per run; an English-language assembly drawing and a parts list by unit code ship with every order.
Packaging	Boxes flat in 5-layer cartons with foam corner blocks — a 600mm base box ships at roughly 70 x 58 x 17cm and 33kg gross; frames bundled per unit and banded to the matching carton; doors and drawer fronts in a separate rigid face-board crate in door-number order; brass hardware in a labelled bag inside the face-board crate so hinges are not lost in the carton void.
MOQ and lead time	20 pcs per model; widths, two door styles and a two-tone split may be mixed inside the 20. Custom RAL or NCS colour from 50 pcs in one colour, with a sprayed 200 x 300mm approval panel. Sample door and frame corner 10 to 14 days, production 30 to 35 days, FOB Ningbo or CIF Felixstowe, Southampton and Dublin.
Compliance	ISO9001, CE, SGS and FSA factory certifications; E1 low-emission board and low-VOC water-based paint; FSC-certified plywood and tulipwood available; CARB Phase 2 compliant board for US-bound orders on the same line; IP44 lighting option where LED strip is specified into a wall unit.

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Product FAQ

What actually makes a kitchen in-frame rather than shaker?

Where the door hangs. In an in-frame kitchen a solid timber frame — here 57mm wide in tulipwood, with a bead worked into its inner edge — is built around every opening, and the door sits inside that frame on exposed butt hinges, so a continuous moulded line runs around each opening when the doors are shut. A standard shaker is a 19 or 20mm door hung on the outside of a frameless carcass with a recessed panel routed into its face; from three metres away the two look similar, and at arm's length they are completely different objects. The practical consequences are that in-frame costs more to make, needs a fitter who can pull frames together to a straight bead line, and can be repainted and re-hung for decades — which is exactly the argument a UK buyer uses to justify the price.

How much does the in-frame build add over a frameless shaker?

Roughly 15 to 25 percent on the cabinet cost, and about an hour more assembly and fitting time per 3m run. The frame itself is solid tulipwood with mortise-and-tenon corners, the doors need lipped edges so butt hinges do not crush the board, and every opening has to be sized to its own door with a 3mm gap that survives humidity change — that is where the labour goes. What it buys is a repaintable face, hinges that can be lifted off in seconds, and a bead line that reads as joinery rather than as applied panel. If the programme is a rental refurbishment or a developer fit-out, frameless is the rational choice; this model exists for the retail and private-residential end of the market where the kitchen outlives one colour scheme.

Will the paint hold up around the handles and the sink?

Eggshell at 10 to 15 gloss units over a water-based primer and two topcoats, oven-cured, passes a 200-revolution Taber abrasion test and a 72-hour humidity cycle without edge lift — which covers normal kitchen use, not abuse. The two places that fail first are the drawer front around a cup pull and the door above a sink; both are handled by design rather than by chemistry, with cup pulls that spread the contact over two screws instead of one knob, and a bead on the frame that takes the water running off the worktop instead of the door edge. A touch-up pot in the batch colour ships with every order, and because the frame and doors are painted as one assembly on assembled orders, a later repair blends instead of patching.

Butt hinges or concealed hinges?

Butt hinges, on this programme, because they are what an in-frame kitchen is bought for: three 64mm antique-brass butts per door, screwed to the frame and to the door edge, visible when the door is closed and removable with a screwdriver. The trade-off is adjustability — a butt-hinged door is set by the fitter, not by a cam, so the frame has to be square and the door sized to its own opening. Where a project wants the in-frame look with the tolerance of a European hinge, the same frame and door can be supplied with concealed clip-on hinges and no visible knuckle; that decision has to be made at order, because the door edge is drilled differently.

How does a 20-piece order work across widths and colours?

The frame, door programme, 32mm drilling and 3mm gap are identical across widths, so a 20-piece lot can mix 300 to 1000mm units freely, and can split between two colours or a two-tone scheme — cream bases with an oak upper run, for example — without a second set-up. A custom RAL or NCS colour starts at 50 pieces in one colour, because a colour change means a spray run and a booth clean, and it needs a sprayed 200 x 300mm approval panel signed off first. Sample door and frame corner 10 to 14 days, production 30 to 35 days, FOB Ningbo or CIF Felixstowe, Southampton and Dublin.