Kitchen Respraying guides, calculator & reference

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).