The short answer
Kitchen resprays start from £800. The biggest factor in the price is simply how many doors and drawer fronts there are, because every one of them is taken off, prepped on both sides and edges, primed and sprayed.
| Kitchen size | Typical door count | Starting price |
|---|---|---|
| Small | 8–12 doors | From £800 |
| Medium | 13–20 doors | From £1,200 |
| Large | 21–30+ doors | From £1,800 |
These are starting points, not a menu. Your exact figure comes in writing after a free survey.
What makes the price go up or down
- Door and drawer count. The single biggest factor. A galley kitchen with nine doors is a very different job from a kitchen-diner with an island and a utility room.
- The surface. Painted wood, MDF and laminate prime well. Gloss, acrylic and dark cabinets need extra adhesion primers, which adds time and materials.
- Condition. Grease-bound, chipped or peeling cabinets need more preparation before any paint goes on. Prep is where the finish is won or lost, so I won’t skip it.
- On-site or off-site. Spraying at your home costs nothing extra. If there isn’t room for a temporary spray booth, the doors come to my workshop in Necton, which adds roughly £100–£250 for transport.
- Extras. New handles fitted at the same time, or redecorating the walls, ceiling and woodwork alongside the cabinets.
What’s included
Every respray includes the survey, colour samples in your own kitchen’s light, removing and labelling the doors, full preparation (degreasing, filling, dustless sanding), an adhesion primer and stain-block, two coats of specialist cabinet paint, refitting, a clean-down and a small touch-up tin in your colour. It’s backed by a 12-month workmanship guarantee, confirmed in writing at the quote stage.
How it compares with replacing the kitchen
A new fitted kitchen in Norfolk usually starts around £10,000 and can reach £30,000 once worktops, appliances and fitting are added. A respray keeps the carcasses, worktops, sink and appliances exactly where they are and changes only the finish. For a sound kitchen with tired doors, that’s usually a fraction of the cost and about a week of disruption rather than several.
It’s also the lower-waste choice. Keeping the original units out of the skip saves roughly a tonne of waste compared with a full rip-out.
When a respray isn’t the cheapest answer
If the carcasses are water-damaged, doors are swollen or the layout no longer works for you, spraying won’t fix that, and I’ll tell you so at the survey. Peeling vinyl-wrapped doors can also be unpredictable; sometimes replacing a handful of doors and spraying the rest is the better value.
Getting an accurate figure
The quickest way is to send a wide photo of the kitchen, a close-up of one door and a rough count of doors and drawers. That’s usually enough for a ballpark within a few days, before I come out to survey and confirm it in writing.