How much does a kitchen respray cost?
“Why respray my kitchen? I might as well just get a new one.”
It’s a question I hear a lot — and a fair one.
One of the specialist services I now offer is kitchen respraying. Over the last few years, advances in airless spraying techniques and access to high-quality, furniture-grade coatings have made it a genuinely viable and affordable alternative to a full kitchen replacement.
With new kitchen refits often starting at £10,000+, respraying your existing (and often still very good-quality) kitchen can be a lovely way to breathe new life into your cabinets and woodwork — at a fraction of the cost and with far less disruption.
If you’re still happy with the layout and design of your kitchen, but the colour now feels tired or a little too “on-trend” for your taste, respraying allows you to make it feel new again without ripping everything out.
Will it add value to my home?
Nationwide property data consistently shows that a well-executed new or refurbished kitchen is one of the strongest improvements for adding value to a home — often cited as increasing sale prices by around 5–10%, depending on location and overall condition. While kitchen respraying is a lighter-touch alternative to a full replacement, it delivers many of the same visual and emotional benefits: clean lines, modern colour, and a move-in-ready feel. There aren’t formal national figures for respraying alone, but estate-agent guidance regularly highlights refreshed kitchen finishes and neutral colour schemes as upgrades that can add several thousand pounds in perceived value, improve buyer interest, and help homes sell more quickly — making professional respraying a smart, lower-disruption way to significantly improve both appeal and marketability.
What about colour? My kitchen is a Farrow & Ball shade…
The specialist furniture coatings I use can be colour-matched to within 99.9% of most designer paint colours, including Farrow & Ball.
When kitchens are manufactured, they are very rarely finished in decorator-grade paints. Most designer paints are created for ease of application by brush and roller, not for long-term durability on hard-wearing furniture surfaces.
Furniture coatings, on the other hand, are designed specifically to be sprayed, to cure harder, and to stand up to daily use. This is why they achieve that smooth, factory-style finish and why they last so well over time — without needing lacquers that can alter the colour or sheen as they age.
So how much does a kitchen respray cost?
Across the South West, a typical kitchen respray usually falls between £3,000 and £4,000, depending on size, layout and condition.
Smaller kitchens generally start from around £2,000.
This is significantly less than replacing a kitchen — and avoids the additional decorating that often follows a refit, where walls and ceilings are disturbed and need repainting.
What affects the cost?
Every kitchen is slightly different, but some common factors include:
Has the kitchen been hand-painted before?
Brush marks need to be carefully sanded back to achieve a smooth, factory-style spray finish.
Is it vinyl or melamine wrapped?
This needs to be removed so the bare MDF can be properly prepared.
Is it varnished or waxed oak, cherry or maple?
These timbers require tannin-blocking primers and a slightly different preparation process to ensure a lasting result.
Are there extra shelves, wine racks or internal features?
These all need to be factored in to allow enough time for proper preparation and spraying.
Getting a guide price
The easiest way to get a feel for cost is to send me a few photos (there’s a simple photo guide on the Kitchen Respray page) or click the link below. Add details such as:
the colours you’re considering (one or two shades)
the general condition of your cabinets
I can then give you a free, no-obligation guide price, so you can decide — calmly and without pressure — whether a respray feels like the right choice for your home.
