If your kitchen looks tired, you have four realistic options: replace it, fit new doors, vinyl wrap it, or respray it. Here’s an honest look at each — including when we’d tell you a respray isn’t the answer.
| New kitchen | New doors | Vinyl wrap | Respray | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Relative cost | Highest | Medium | Lower | Up to 75% less than new |
| Disruption | Weeks | A few days | A few days | 2 afternoons across about 5 days |
| Colour choice | The range’s colours | The range’s colours | The film’s colours | Any colour, matched to any brand |
| Keeps worktops & appliances | Usually not | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Changes the layout | Yes | No | No | No |
A new kitchen
Choose this if your layout doesn’t work, the units are falling apart, or you’re moving walls. It’s the only option that changes how the kitchen works — but it’s by far the most expensive and disruptive, with new units, worktops, fitting and making good.
New doors
Choose this if your doors are damaged beyond repair but the carcasses are sound. The catch is matching sizes, hinges and drilling exactly, and you’re limited to the colours in the range. The frames, end panels and plinths stay the old colour unless they’re replaced or painted too.
Vinyl wrap
Choose this if you want the cheapest short-term change on flat doors. Wrap is tricky on shaker and profiled doors, joins can show, and it can lift with heat and steam near ovens and kettles — see why vinyl wrap peels.
A respray
Choose this if your kitchen works well but you’re tired of how it looks. A respray keeps the layout, worktops and appliances you already have, changes the doors, drawer fronts, frames and panels to any colour you like, and costs up to 75% less than replacing. It’s also the environmentally responsible choice — nothing goes to landfill.
Most manufactured finishes can be resprayed — varnished wood, melamine, MDF and previously painted surfaces. See which kitchens can be resprayed.
When a respray isn’t right
If the units are water-damaged, the doors are badly swollen, or you simply want a different layout, spraying won’t fix that — and we’ll tell you so at the quote. It’s better for everyone.
Want to know what your kitchen would cost to respray? Read our Hampshire kitchen respray price guide, or send photos through our online quote form.
We work predominantly in Hampshire
We’re a local, family-run team based near Botley, so most of our kitchens are in Hampshire and just over its borders — Winchester, Southampton, Eastleigh, Chandler’s Ford, Hedge End, Romsey, Andover, Basingstoke, Alton, Petersfield, Fareham, Waterlooville and the villages in between.
Further afield? Get in touch anyway — we’ll happily travel for the right kitchen.