# Shaker internal doors — flat panels, square edges | Threshen > Shaker internal doors: flat recessed panels and square edges, with no applied moulding. How they differ from a moulded panel door and where they work best. Source: https://example.co.uk/internal-doors/shaker --- # Shaker internal doors A shaker door has flat recessed panels inside a square-edged frame, with no applied moulding around the panel. That single detail is what separates it from a traditional panel door. It reads as quiet and modern, it has nothing to collect dust, and it suits almost any house built after about 1930. **In this range** 7 doors **Guide price from** £50.40 inc VAT Shaker is the safest door style you can specify, and safe here is a compliment. It has enough definition to look intentional and not enough decoration to argue with anything else in the room. The name comes from Shaker furniture, where the discipline was that ornament had to earn its place. Very little door marketing mentions that, but it explains the shape. 7 doors Prices are guide prices including VAT, taken from the smallest size and plainest finish of each door. They are not an offer to sell — confirm the price for your size and finish before ordering. - White Primed Shaker Door Clean two-panel shaker lines in a white primed finish. The most forgiving door in a mixed-age house, and the cheapest way to make a landing look deliberate. Primed MDF - 35mm ### White Solid Core Shaker Door Flat recessed panels, square edges, and a solid core underneath. The shaker shape specified properly, for the doors that get opened twenty times a day rather than twice. - Solid core primed MDF - 35mm ### Grey Painted Shaker Door The shaker shape in a painted mid grey rather than white. The quietest way to have coloured doors without committing the whole house to a colour. - Painted grey MDF - 35mm ### Oak Shaker Door Flat recessed panels with square edges in engineered oak. The quietest way to have timber doors in a house built after about 1930 without them reading as period. - Engineered oak - 35mm ### Oak Solid Core Shaker Door Square-edged shaker panels in oak with a solid core behind them. This is the specification people are describing when they say they want the doors to feel expensive. - Engineered oak, solid core - 35mm ### Walnut Shaker Door Two square-edged panels in a dark walnut veneer. The plainest shape this catalogue offers, in the timber least likely to be described as plain. - Engineered walnut - 35mm ### Solid Oak Shaker Door Shaker panels cut from solid oak rather than veneered onto a core: grain that runs through the timber instead of over it, and a door that moves with the seasons. - Solid oak - 35mm No doors match these filters yet. Clear a filter to widen the search. ## Shaker or a moulded panel door? | | Shaker | Moulded panel | | --- | --- | --- | | Panel edge | Square, flat recess, no applied moulding | Ovolo or ogee moulding around each panel | | Reads as | Quiet, current | Traditional, period | | Cleaning | Nothing to trap dust | Mouldings collect it | | Suits | Post-war and modern houses, refurbished period houses | Victorian and Edwardian houses keeping their original character | ## Two panel, four panel, and what actually changes Shaker doors are sold with two, three, four or more panels, and the count changes the proportion rather than the character. Two tall panels stretch a door and suit a room with height. Four squarer panels bring a door down and settle it into a lower ceiling. Stand in the doorway and look at the height of your skirting and the width of your architrave before choosing. Those set the visual weight the door has to sit inside. ## A note on shaker doors in period houses Shaker doors are frequently fitted in Victorian houses and they look fine, but they are not what was there. An original Victorian interior door is a four-panel moulded door, and if the rest of the house is intact — corbels, picture rails, original architrave — the shaker door will be the detail that gives away the refurbishment. That may be exactly what you want. It is worth deciding rather than discovering. ## More internal doors [Back to all internal doors](https://example.co.uk/internal-doors)