Kitchen Spray Painting vs Other Remodelling Options

Kitchen doors that were fitted well but look dated are one of the most common jobs a spray painting service answers - solid timber or laminate cabinets that still close properly and sit square in their frames, just wearing tired paintwork or a colour that's gone out of fashion. Spraying isn't the right fix for every kitchen, though: it changes the finish, not the structure, so it only works where the cabinets underneath are actually sound.

This page sets out where spray painting genuinely beats refacing or full replacement, where it doesn't, and roughly what each option costs, so you've got something to weigh up before booking a home visit.

• Full cleaning and degreasing of existing cabinet doors, drawer fronts and frames before any paint is applied
• Colour matching to premium palettes such as Little Greene or Farrow & Ball rather than a limited trade colour range
• Airless spraying using dust-free mobile extraction, usually carried out on-site so the kitchen doesn't need stripping out
• A protective, factory-grade topcoat for a durable, showroom-quality finish
• Respraying of external uPVC doors and window profiles alongside the kitchen where they're part of the same colour scheme

• Structural repairs to warped, water-damaged or poorly built cabinet carcasses - these need refacing or replacement, not spraying
• Changing the kitchen's layout, worktop or appliance positions - spraying changes the finish, not the structure
• New worktops, splashbacks or flooring, which are priced and quoted separately
• Making cabinets in genuinely poor structural condition 'as new' - if the boxes themselves are failing, no amount of paint fixes that

1. Free home visit and consultation -- We look at the condition of your existing cabinets in person and give you a straight opinion on whether spray painting, refacing or full replacement is the right fit for what you've actually got, not just the option that suits us.
2. Written, no-obligation quotation -- You get a full price in writing before anything is booked in, with no hidden extras added once work is underway.
3. Preparation and masking -- Worktops, floors and appliances are protected, and doors and drawer fronts are removed or masked ready for spraying.
4. Spraying and colour matching -- Cabinets are cleaned, sanded and sprayed using airless equipment with dust-free mobile extraction, matched to your chosen colour.
5. Reassembly and finishing -- Doors, drawers and hardware go back on, and any external uPVC doors or window profiles in the same colour scheme are finished to match.
6. Sign-off and warranty -- You get a formal handover once you're happy with the finish, backed by a written installation warranty.

The team that visits your home to look at the cabinets is the same team that turns up with the spray rig a few weeks later - for a family-run business that's normal, not a selling point. Nottingham Kitchen Fitter has been working on kitchens across Nottingham and the wider East Midlands for over 20 years, and spray painting sits alongside cabinet making and worktop fitting as one of the trades handled in-house, so whoever quotes your job has assessed hundreds of kitchens before deciding whether spraying, refacing or replacement is the right call for yours. Across 800+ completed projects for local homeowners, the honest answer is sometimes "don't spray this one" - and that's backed up in writing, with a five-year guarantee on labour and installation, a two-year guarantee on products, a transparent written agreement before work starts, and a formal sign-off once the job's finished. Membership of the Construction Industry Training Board and the Federation of Small Businesses reflects a business built around doing the trade properly, not just pricing the job.

Most of our spray painting work happens in and around Nottingham itself, and because the rig runs on dust-free mobile extraction rather than needing a workshop strip-down, that holds true wherever the job is. Around the Lace Market and the older streets near the Castle and the Sandstone Caves, where floors and foundations are often noticeably uneven, we come across a fair number of solid timber cabinet doors on properties built long before laminate kitchens were the norm - tired paintwork on wood that's otherwise perfectly sound, which is exactly the kind of job spraying suits best. Out along the tram route through Beeston and Clifton the housing stock skews newer, so the units we're spraying tend to be 1990s and 2000s laminate rather than period joinery, and the real work is in getting the degreasing right before paint goes anywhere near them. Wollaton's mix of older semis and newer builds near the Hall means we see both directions - painted Shaker-style doors already in place that just need a new coat, and dated laminate that's never been sprayed before - so the colour-matching conversation looks different from house to house. West Bridgford and the streets closer to the Trent bring their own logistics, with more apartments and townhouses where protecting communal areas matters as much as the spraying itself. Beyond the city, we take on regular jobs in Arnold, Sneinton and Long Eaton, out to Mansfield, Kirkby-in-Ashfield and Stapleford, and across into Derbyshire as far as Derby, Alfreton, Heanor and Chesterfield near the county border - all close enough that a job stays on-site rather than needing cabinets carted off anywhere.

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