Could you post some pics please?

Don't have the pics yet. Planning my kitchen.

I am going after this look from pintrest but want to keep my old stairway and entryway. (kitchen is not visible from entry.

Tks for ideas

This kitchen has slab cupboards that aren't modern. https://www.houzz.com/discussions/6072301/kitchen-refresh-help

Are you planning that exact look - frameless, slab, mix of white with light coloured wood? Every aspect of that is the opposite of your hallway and staircase. If you want slab and frameless, a compromise would be a wood finish that is either all painted or all wood in a tone closer to the hallway. for example

Thank you. I like your suggestion going one color. Have ordered some samples and waitngyto decide. I do like the dark walnut look but feel might too dark if I go with it 100%. Going with white slab all they way would make it look even more modern, so perhaps all wood. Tks for your ideas.

I think you can definitely do a slab in an older home. What becomes most important will be the colors and the design. You will need to mix in elements that support the age of the home - no stainless bar pulls but maybe beautiful brushed gold handles and fixtures for instance.

Maybe something like these?

Fun project!

Ideas here

You can do it! It would be criminal to make you use a 1900 kitchen, so you get to pick whatever era you like. (If it's open to the rest of the house however, nope, sorry, don't do it!)

I really like the cabinets Debbi’s last picture. I think it would look nice in your home.

Can you put in modern slab doors? Yes. Of course. And various posters have provided more and less “cohesive” versions of what that could look like.

But if you are going to keep your older entryway and stairway, and if you actually like the historic elements of your home, why the hell would you go with a slab door??? There are so many other options, including 100000 versions of shaker, that would be both more historically appropriate while still having a modern aesthetic. Imagine a dark-stained thin-stile shaker - the dark wood would match your entry and lean traditional (but also paradoxically modern), while the thin stile would telegraph modernity.

I really dislike shakers. The thin side shakers are ok but not in love. It is really a practicality issue for me. Cleaning slab doors is a breze, I have beautifully slab kitchen in my apartment now (kitchen uis for a new house we bought) and I love how super easy it is to maintain. The cabinets are all the way to celing. I use a mop with fiber cloth attach to clean and even degrese them. The residue even I'm beat ventilated kitchen will happen and nay type of shaker will just require more elbow greese. I like idea of using brass elements and more age like fixtures around kitchen. Perhaps this will be enough to tie spaces together. Thank you for your suggestions.

Thank you. I am torn on this. Part of me thinks exactly like this and part tells me I am killing the character of the house. Hard to find the middle ground. I like the idea of perhaps going all wood look on the slab rather than going two tone. This alone might perhaps give it more "traditional" look. Started considering other additions like tong and Grove on the celling and /or chevron tile patter on wood look tile planks in the kitchen. In addition some brass accents like in cabinet pulls, faucet. Lot to think about.

If you are concerned about creating a dark kitchen if you go for all slab with a medium-tone wood, that can be addressed with additional lighting. Under cabinet lights for sure, adequate ceiling lights, and the right colour temperature bulbs. And keep the other surfaces light coloured - back splash, counters, walls.

If your concerns about shaker doors is cleaning, you could always do the thin-rail type of shaker that you like more, and (if doing custom) have the center edges of the rails and stiles beveled rather than flat 90-degree surfaces. I did that in my kitchen and I think Beth (the tile/decor guru) also did. That slight bevel makes them much easier to keep clean.

We have a 100 year old home and, IMHO, trying to do a wood finish is a mistake unless you are doing the same wood in the same stain in the same cut as in the rest of the home. If that is your staircase in the pic, I'm guessing it is oak possibly 1/4 cut in a mission like stain?

If you want to do mixed finishes, I'd choose white and the oak. If you don't want to do 1/4 cut oak, I'd do another paint colour.

I think slab doors are fine. It's not unusual to find slab doors on free-standing cabs of that era, it wasn't all shaker.

I have a 1910 house. The original cabinets had inset shaker uppers, but all the drawers had slab fronts (partial overlay). This was common enough back in the day that I don't think slab-front lowers look not-modern. I think slab front uppers are harder to make look vintage (though hinges and hardware can help sell it), so if you can minimize the number of upper cabs it will be easier to pull off.

These pics show inset slab front cabinets (ignore the one shaker door on the blue cabinets).

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/491314640585951085/

https://www.houzz.com/discussions/3348252/introducing-myself-3-months-into-major-renovation-custom-inset-cabs#n=58

FWIW, I just remodeled the kitchen in my 1910 house and didn't want a slavishly vintage kitchen. I was going more for "temporally eclectic" and tried to merge enough vintage elements with elements from the span of the past 110 years to look like it had evolved over the years. I did use shaker, but on frameless cabinets with minimal uppers. Glacier white Corian counters. 4x4 white tile backspash (I hate subway tiles the way you hate Shaker). Marmoleum floor. Linear suspension LED lighting countertop lighting with a central schoolhouse fixture. Art Deco cabinet pulls.

@cawaps have any pictures you can share?

Thank you all for such great ideas.

I like cswaps first pic.

I think if you go too modern

it might look out of place.

there are plenty of other slab style cabs that will work w/vintage homes.

couldn't you do something like this without the rails? just a slab inset?

I have a 100yo house and did my best (with lots of help from Houzz & designer) to marry the old with the new. I do like modern but did not want to go full-on modern in this house. My lower cabinets are the same wood that is throughout the rest of the house (all trim and doors), which helps, and (like cawaps) I did a Marmoleum floor, white Corian, and shaker cabs. I also did a painted glass backsplash, which is modern, but it is also highly functional.

I like a lot of the pics Beth posted. I think you can definitely mix modern with slab.

@beth I absolutely love this one

It looks like pine /is look on the upper. Tong and groove in same color on the celing. Grassy pulls. Defiantly something I love and could work in my situation.

I also loved the inslet slab ideas from

@cawaps but these are rather expensive customs. Not sure this could fit into my budget as I want a high end wolf appliances.

This has been so helpful and so inspirational. Thank you

monika, I like that one too. here's the link if you want more pics

http://craftsmankitchen.com/gallery/park-city/

found some others (craftsman style)

MillValleyArts craftsman

I don't like the floor w/the uppers. colors clash to me, but they are a slab

Similar colors w/the 2nd one, but everything works better together. top one is too yellow

i like this inset one. the rails don't seem to protrude like regular shakers

i don't care for this lighting (at all) but the cabs are nice. i like the wood ceiling

or maybe just have the slab on the drawers? (this is a vert. grain doug fir)

this one too

also VG Fir

https://www.houzz.com/photos/vertical-grain-fir-cabinets-phbr0lbl-bl~l_60023

I am still waiting on my range--stupid covid delays, it was originally supposed to arrive in mid-October. These are from right after construction finished (I have art up now, but the kitchen is too messy for a new photo at the moment). As I said, I went with Shaker, but I think this would work with slab.

Now THAT'S a good use of yellow in a kitchen. It's so pretty. I don't really understand yellow paint with, say, maple cabinets, but this is a beautiful contrast.

@cawaps this is a beautiful kitchen. Yellow is indeed awesome here. I love the dark look contrasted with minimal upper. My kitchen is too small to to go without uppers

For our 1915 house I am considering slab drawer fronts with Shaker doors - the slab doors are practical but to spare for a house like ours.