Kitchen Respraying questions answered in plain English

In Ireland, respraying a small kitchen (up to 10 doors and drawer fronts) costs €700 to €1,000. A standard medium family kitchen (10 to 20 doors) costs €1,250 to €2,000, and a large kitchen with an island and tall larder run (20 to 35+ doors) costs €2,000 to €4,500. That saves 75% to 85% compared with a €10,000 to €20,000 new fitted kitchen.

Specialist kitchen resprayers do both: all removable doors, drawer fronts and kickboards are unscrewed and taken to a temperature-controlled, dust-extracted workshop spray booth for degreasing, sanding, priming and 2-pack spraying. Then the team spends 1 day on site masking your room and spraying the fixed end panels, pelmets, cornices and face frames so everything matches.

Yes — solid oak, ash, maple and pine kitchens are the single best candidates for respraying because the timber doors and hinges are built to last decades. Two coats of high-build blocking primer seal the wood tannins so no yellow knots bleed through, leaving a smooth satin finish while keeping a subtle whisper of natural woodgrain.

You cannot spray on top of peeling vinyl, because the foil will keep lifting underneath the paint. However, because the core underneath is solid routed MDF, a sprayer can heat-strip the vinyl film off completely, solvent-clean the glue, seal the raw MDF with high-build primer and spray it like new (stripping adds €250 to €600).

When sprayed in a booth with commercial 2-pack polyurethane (2K PU) or acid-catalyst (AC) cabinet lacquer — not ordinary hardware-store wall or trim paint — a kitchen respray typically lasts 8 to 12+ years in a busy family home and can be wiped clean with warm soapy water.

Yes. Commercial cabinet lacquer tinting systems colour-match any shade from Colourtrend, Farrow & Ball, Little Greene, Fleetwood or the RAL chart, and mix it in 10% matte, 20%–25% satin (the most popular wipe-clean kitchen sheen) or 30% eggshell.

Yes! Because only the removable doors, drawer fronts and kickboards are taken to the spray booth on Day 1, your worktops, sink, hob, oven, fridge and cupboard interiors stay 100% usable all week. The fixed side panels and cornice are masked and sprayed in a single day right before the doors are re-hung.

Professional 2-pack polyurethane and acid-catalysed furniture lacquers cure chemically rather than just drying by evaporation — creating the exact same factory coating used by luxury €25,000 bespoke kitchen manufacturers. Every job also comes with a labelled touch-up pot of your exact batch.

Yes — after thorough chemical degreasing and mechanical abrasion, an adhesion-promoting bonding primer keys permanently onto gloss acrylic, foil or laminate before the 2-pack colour coats are sprayed.

A properly degreased, primed and 2-pack spray-finished kitchen lasts 8 to 12+ years of daily family cooking and wiping down with warm soapy water and a microfibre cloth.

Absolutely — old handle holes are filled invisibly with 2-part epoxy before priming so you can fit new brass, matt black or brushed nickel handles in any position, and tired hinges can be swapped for new Blum soft-close hinges on re-fitting day.

Yes — respraying the cabinetry for €1,400–€2,600 and adding new 20mm/30mm quartz worktops (€2,200–€3,800) gives you the look and feel of a brand-new €18,000 kitchen for roughly one-quarter of the price and zero building mess.