Your drawer edges are exactly what I'm looking for! I will check out custom. There are a few small cabinet makers in the area. If needed I dont mind painting myself. Im going to save the info to explain what Im looking for.

I'm sure your kitcken is beautiful!

It is . . .

Talk to some small custom shops, you might be pleasantly surprised. The less sales and marketing glitz the better.

My house was built in 1963 and has those same stick built, flat panel cabinets, but i’m not sure they belong in a 1920s home. It sounds strange, but 1920s flat panel didn’t look like 1960s flat panel - the reveals were different, the shapes were different. I know people use Shaker cabinets for every house of every era now, but they would have belonged in a 1920s home.

We did a mix of inset and frameless cabinets to create the look/feel of a period kitchen while still maximizing space and utility. Fifteen years later, I'm still happy with how it turned out and there are only a handful of things I'd do differently. We shopped and shopped until we found a young cabinetmaker who was just starting his own shop and could do it for less. Our Plan B at the time was to do Scherr's cabinets (today there are several other similar RTA options). There are also many more semi-custom cabinet lines offering inset these days; it was still relatively uncommon when we did our kitchen and I think there was only one place that would do them. When our 1915 home was built it had full inset Shaker-style cabinet doors with 3/8" offset partial overlay slab drawers in the kitchen, but we just stuck with standard slab drawers for the inset cabinets and top drawers of the frameless since our cabinetmaker hadn't done 3/8" partial offset before. The rails and stiles on the doors were matched to the home's original cabinetry doors. No one who knows kitchens would mistake the cabinets for original, but plenty of people who are not TKO do!

" If needed I don't mind painting myself."

This coming from someone who as live in homes mostly from 1930s and earlier:

I'm sure you already know this, but it seems worth stating - you want the right combo of look and function. But function first when you are talking about the expense of a kitchen.

Function includes a good wearing paint coating. The kind you are going to DIY will not be long lasting. It isn't a good investment. Even if your cabinets are not as "authentic" looking as you would like, there are soooo many ways to still style a kitchen with a nod to the 1920s and 30s. Your appliances (at least fridge) won't be actual 20s or 30s and it is ok if the cabinets are not exactly that either. Get the best cabinets you can for the price you can afford. Then start thinking about the look and feel of your kitchen.

Your counters, tile, lighting, colors, flooring are all excellent places to infuse a 20s/30s vibe. Don't compromise on getting the best cabinets for your price range.

If you are going custom you can always tweak to get exactly the look you want, and little details will make the difference as to whether a slab door looks 1920s or 1960s.

One opportunity that I had with custom is that every cabinet could be exactly the size I needed it to be in my very small kitchen. So I only have four base cabinets for example. If they were semi custom their would probably be six. Same with my uppers. I have one longish bank of uppers that would be multiples. And things like the bottom rail to conceal the undercabinet lighting are integrated into the cabinet itself not added to the bottom. And they are fully finished on the bottoms.

And all of my upper cabinets are in banks of different depths without an upcharge, things like that.

Is this the solar house where you were asking about vaulted ceilings in one area? What is driving a 20s-30s look for the cabinets?

Wait, vintage appearing cabinets in a vaulted ceiling open concept?????? You need to regroup and pick a lane to stick to.

New house, old soul. To quote Brent Hull, the house needs to tell a story. The narrative is the house/barn perhaps built in the 1920s by a small family. On farmland in a farming community. We will be a hobby farm. Maybe the house was on old barn converted to a house in the 1920s. Flooring, fixtures, cabinets, trim will reflect a modern craftsman/farmhouse vibe. Barns have vaulted ceilings. Might incorporate some actual barn beams.

It will be passive solar but that isnt a style. Passive solar is a way of heating and cooling using thermal mass, positioning etc. People often think of 1970s style homes when hearing passive solar. Actually your house could be any style Romansque, English Tudor, etc.

Being powered by solar is something else.

Well a farmhouse or a conversion of some sort that isn't a recent conversion, would have pretty modest details overall --even if the place was fancy elsewhere like a higher end carriage house conversion, in the 20s-30s it would have had a pretty plain kitchen so a slab + inset combination in a plain style would be appropriate. In general I think you would want to have pretty modest details overall. (The current usage of "Modern Farmhouse" is a 2010s+ style that is neither modern nor a farmhouse in style, although everybody who follows homebuilding recognizes the current style as inappropriate as the name may be)

Can you post some pics? Maybe we can get some ideas for cabinets that will help you achieve your look.

I totally get wanting a vibe for your house. And, wanting a new house to look like it might have some history. But the depth of your narrative seems like it could result in kitsch.

Ultimately, you have to marry your look with the structure itself. What do your current windows, floors, and doors look like? I presume they are modern. You can't ignore these factors by throwing in old looking cabinets that aren't really old.

With a kitchen, again, think about your best cabinets for the price and use other items to decorate around.

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Flooring: wood in most areas including kitchen. Either wide plank oak or pine or reclaimed Flooring. Bathrooms will be small hex tile.

Windows. Goal is tilt turn with craftsman details added where able.

Doors: reclaimed that fit the time

We have a business nearby that sells reclaimed items. Plan to buy all interior doors, maybe bathroom sinks, flooring, lighting etc there. As much as possible! They also disassemble barns and sell the wood.

I believe in organic style/architecture. A house should fit the time, place, people. Houses evolve over time, additions added, updates, new furniture. So its ok to have a SS fridge or high efficiency windows.

With this house, craftsman farmhouse fits.

Shiloh also offers a Lipped door (3/8 offset). I have yet to do one! I hope I can do one someday! Very cool look. Lipped doors take away the "heaviness" of full overlay or even partial overlay doors.