Kitchen Makeover

Transform Your Kitchen
Without the Chaos — or the Cost

A dated kitchen can sap the joy out of cooking every single day. But tearing it all out and starting again? That's a different kind of pain. Here's the smarter way to get the kitchen you actually want.
New Image Paint & Spray
May 2026
13 min read
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What is it?

Professional Kitchen Spraying — The Process

Kitchen spraying is exactly what it sounds like — a professional spray application of high-grade, durable coatings applied directly to your existing cabinets, walls, and worktops in your own home. But the results are anything but simple.

Unlike a tin of brush-on paint from the DIY store, professional kitchen spraying uses specialist equipment and coatings to deliver an ultra-smooth, factory-like finish with zero brush marks, a consistent colour depth, and a surface that's built to last. We mask off your kitchen meticulously before we start — protecting worktops, appliances, and flooring — and work systematically through each surface until every inch is perfectly transformed.

Freshly painted kitchen cabinets

One of the biggest misconceptions is that spraying is just "painting". It isn't. The preparation work — cleaning, degreasing, sanding, priming — is where the longevity of the finish is earned. The spray itself is the reward for doing the groundwork properly.

The result? A finish that looks and feels like it came straight from a cabinet manufacturer. Hard-wearing, washable, resistant to chipping, and available in virtually any colour you can imagine — including exact RAL matches and Farrow & Ball equivalents.

Clean & Degrease
Sand & Prepare
Mask & Protect
Prime & Spray
Cure & Finish
Most kitchens are completed within one to three days. You'll be cooking in your new kitchen before the week is out.

THE SMART CHOICE

Kitchen Spraying vs. Full Refit — The Real Numbers

Most homeowners assume that getting a brand new looking kitchen means a full rip-out. A skip on the drive. Weeks of disruption. A bill that makes your eyes water. But the uncomfortable truth is that for the vast majority of kitchens — those that are structurally sound and simply look tired — a full refit is completely unnecessary.

The carcasses of your kitchen units are almost certainly fine. The hinges, the drawer runners, the layout you've lived with for years and quietly figured out — all of that can stay. What needs to change is the surface. And that's exactly what professional kitchen spraying does.

85% Typical saving vs. a comparable full kitchen refit
1-3 Days to complete most full kitchen transformations
Zero Units to landfill — your existing kitchen is preserved
Factor Kitchen Spraying Full Refit
Cost Typically 10–20% of the cost of a full refit £5,000–£20,000+ for a mid-range kitchen including fitting
Timescale 1–3 days for most kitchens 1–3 weeks minimum, often significantly longer
Disruption Kitchen remains largely usable throughout Completely out of action — dust, mess, daily tradespeople
Sustainability Zero waste — existing units transformed, nothing removed Old units go to landfill; high material and carbon footprint
Finish Quality Factory-smooth, durable, chip-resistant professional coating Varies by contractor and product range chosen
Colour Choice Unlimited — any RAL or Farrow & Ball colour matched Limited to what the manufacturer offers in their range
Added Value Significant uplift to kitchen appeal at a fraction of the cost Higher spend with variable return on investment
Cost
✓ Spraying Typically 10–20% of the cost of a full refit
✗ Full Refit £5,000–£20,000+ including fitting
Timescale
✓ Spraying 1–3 days for most kitchens
✗ Full Refit 1–3 weeks minimum, often longer
Disruption
✓ Spraying Kitchen remains largely usable throughout
✗ Full Refit Completely out of action — dust, mess, daily tradespeople
Sustainability
✓ Spraying Zero waste — existing units kept and transformed
✗ Full Refit Old units go to landfill; high carbon footprint
Finish Quality
✓ Spraying Factory-smooth, durable, chip-resistant coating
✗ Full Refit Varies by contractor and product range
Colour Choice
✓ Spraying Unlimited — any RAL or Farrow & Ball colour matched
✗ Full Refit Limited to the manufacturer's available range
Added Value
✓ Spraying Significant uplift to appeal at a fraction of the cost
✗ Full Refit Higher spend with variable return on investment
The sustainability angle is worth pausing on too. Kitchen units — the carcasses, the shelves, the drawer boxes — take enormous resources to manufacture. When a structurally sound kitchen ends up in a skip purely for cosmetic reasons, that's a significant waste. Kitchen spraying is the genuinely greener choice, without any compromise on the outcome.

SERVICE ONE

Cabinet Respray — A New Colour, A New Kitchen

The cabinet doors are what you see every day. They set the entire tone of the kitchen. Change them, and you change everything about how that room feels. It's that simple — and that powerful.

Our cabinet respray service covers every door, every drawer front, and every end panel in your kitchen. Each surface is thoroughly prepared — cleaned, degreased, and sanded to give the new coating the best possible key — before a specialist primer and your chosen topcoat is applied in multiple thin, even passes. The finish is hard-wearing, smooth to the touch, and completely consistent across every surface.

Modern kitchen with neutral tones
Modern kitchen with sleek cabinetry
One of the most popular choices we see at the moment is navy and dark teal — colour-drenched kitchens that feel bold and confident. But sage greens, warm charcoals, and clean off-whites are equally in demand. The beauty of a respray is that the colour is entirely your choice — we can match any RAL code or Farrow & Ball shade precisely.

Popular Cabinet Colours

Off
White
Sage
Green
Navy
Blue
Warm
Taupe
Walnut
Wood
Charcoal

Finish options include satin (the most popular — a soft sheen that feels modern and hides everyday marks well), matt for a flat, contemporary feel, and full gloss for a high-shine statement. All finishes are equally durable and washable — the choice is purely aesthetic.

We also recommend considering your hardware at the same time. Swapping out ageing chrome handles for matte black or brushed brass while the doors are being done costs very little but adds enormously to the end result. It's one of those small changes that makes people stop and ask if you got an entirely new kitchen.

Off White Painted Cabinet
Sage Green Painted Cabinet
Navy Blue Painted Cabinet

SERVICE Two

Walls & Cabinets Together — The Full Colour Story

Here's a truth that interior designers have always known: colour doesn't work in isolation. The most beautifully sprayed cabinet doors in the world will still look underwhelming against a backdrop of magnolia walls that haven't been touched in a decade. The cabinets and the walls need to work as a pair — and when they do, the result is something special.

Our wall spraying service delivers a finish that rolling paint simply can't match. A sprayed wall has an evenness of colour and a smoothness of surface that transforms the feel of a room — no roller texture, no lap marks, no patchy coverage. It's the kind of finish you see in high-end show kitchens.

We work alongside your cabinet respray to ensure the colours are chosen as a considered pairing. If you're going deep navy on the cabinets, a warm linen or soft stone on the walls will balance and lift the whole room. If you prefer a more subtle update — sage green doors against a warm greige wall — we can make that work beautifully too.

We can also spray tiled splashbacks using specialist tile coatings — meaning even that section of 1990s terracotta tile behind the hob doesn't need to survive into your newly transformed kitchen. The whole room gets the treatment, and the whole room looks like it was designed that way from the start.

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SERVICE three

Granite Effect Worktop Spray — The Showstopper

If the cabinet respray is the transformation that people notice, the granite effect worktop is the one that stops them in their tracks. It's the detail that makes people genuinely unable to tell whether you've fitted a brand new kitchen — and it costs a fraction of what real stone would.

Our granite effect worktop spray is a multi-layer system applied directly over your existing laminate, wood, or tiled surfaces. It doesn't require any removal, any mess, or any downtime beyond the application and curing period. What it does produce is a surface with remarkable depth, realistic stone-like texture, and the kind of visual weight that makes a kitchen feel properly designed.

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The finish is food-safe, heat-resistant, and moisture-resistant once fully cured. It's also incredibly practical — easy to clean and resilient in the way a working kitchen surface needs to be. Real granite and quartz can cost thousands in materials and fitting alone. Our granite effect gives you the aesthetic at a genuinely accessible price.

Granite Effect Finishes Available

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The depth and realism of the finish genuinely surprises people the first time they see it up close. The multi-layer application process creates visual complexity — highlights, undertones, and a surface variation that flat paint simply can't replicate. It reads as stone. It feels like a premium surface. And unlike real stone, it won't crack, and it won't cost you a fortune.

Most full kitchen worktop applications are completed within a single day — which means by tomorrow evening, you could have a worktop that looks like it belongs in an interior design magazine.

Closeup of spray granite effect finish
Spray Granite Effect Finish

All Three Together — A Kitchen That Doesn't Feel Like Yours

Individually, each of these services is a significant upgrade. But when you combine all three — cabinet respray, wall spraying, and granite effect worktops — something else happens entirely. The cumulative effect is a kitchen that is so thoroughly transformed that it genuinely takes a moment of adjustment to recognise it as the same room.

This is the complete kitchen transformation. No refit. No skip. No weeks of disruption. No five-figure bill. Just two to three days of professional work and a result that will make you stop in the doorway every morning because your kitchen is, finally, the kitchen you always wanted.

Kitchen before cabinet and worktop respray
before
After shot of Kitchen cabinet and worktop respray
After

The total cost for all three services together will still be dramatically less than a basic mid-range full refit — and the disruption will be measured in days, not weeks. Your home stays your home throughout. Your kitchen stays functional. And at the end of it, you have a space that looks like a considered, deliberate design decision, not a stopgap.

Closeup of cabinet finish
Closeup of cabinet finish
Closeup of granite effect surface

Your Questions, Answered

Your Kitchen Deserves Better
— Let's Make It Happen

No skip on the drive. No weeks of disruption. No five-figure bill. Just a beautifully transformed kitchen you'll love coming home to — completed in days.