Replace or spray kitchen cupboard doors

lindos90

Has anyone had any experience with companies who supply replacement kitchen doors, or companies who respray the current doors please? 

With a fairly tight budget, but don't want to buy something that's really poor quality. I know you 'get what you pay for' but I'm researching the best value for money options possible.

Ideally I'm looking for a company who would also supply matching plinths, cladding etc too, so it's all matching.

I'm in the process of trying to find the original manufacturer, in the hope I could go back to them and order doors the same size as standard, rather than having to have doors specially made (which I'm thinking would increase the price) but not sure if this will be possible. 

Any recommendations pros/cons welcome, thankyou.

MikeJXE

I would suggest the local kitchen unit stockists call on you or take a door to their offices rather than chain store dealers 

Slinky

I had a replacement door company come and do a quote recently. It was a franchise. We were expecting something in the region of £4K. They quoted £13.5K! This was for new doors, plinths, a couple of new cupboards, worktops being covered with new 6mm granite resin top and a new sink.

We've had a quote from somebody to take away the existing doors and respray them, respray everything else on site for uder £2K.  A new granite worktop is £2-3K depending on stone choice and the sink is about £400 which is £100 ccheaper than the same sink the franchise were offering.

We recently bought doors from this company for a cupboard in our new shower room and are very happy with them if you go down the replacement doors route. https://kitchenandbedroomdoors.co.uk/

Bigphil1474

OP, I'm in a similar position, but I've looked at prices of replacing and/or someone repainting, and the cost is eye watering. My budget is just too tight. We're going down the DIY painting route. It won't look brilliant, but I'm aiming for home 'improvement' rather than perfection. We got some decent quality cupboard primer (can't remember the name), and I'll try rattle can or roller painting for the finish. I've looked at a few youtube video's and in principle it's straight forward. If it ends up a pigs ear, I'll just have to live with it or get someone in.

gwynlas

On a recent thread door wraps were mentioned on a link. We recently looked at buying  new door for a water damaged bathroom vanity unit and a carpenter quoted hundreds. There are companies who supply doors only and who make bespoke sizes but you  would probably be better off just painting them.You can take them off and paint them flat to avoid runs.

mi-key

@Bigphil1474

Rustoleum do a really good cabinet paint for repainting doors yourself. Its called washable matt kitchen cupboard paint, and gives a really nice smooth flat matt finish ( it looks the same as if it was sprayed to be honest ). Just do two very thin coats to build up the colour

is £25 a tin, but goes a long way, may be worth getting some to try it and see how it looks. 

I used it on this bathroom cabinet that started off as white.

Vinyl wraps are ok, but they show any imperfections in the doors underneath, so they have to be in perfect condition to use them.

lindos90

Bigphil1474 said:

OP, I'm in a similar position, but I've looked at prices of replacing and/or someone repainting, and the cost is eye watering. My budget is just too tight. We're going down the DIY painting route. It won't look brilliant, but I'm aiming for home 'improvement' rather than perfection. We got some decent quality cupboard primer (can't remember the name), and I'll try rattle can or roller painting for the finish. I've looked at a few youtube video's and in principle it's straight forward. If it ends up a pigs ear, I'll just have to live with it or get someone in.

This could be the fall back position here too. For the cost of a tin of primer and paint it might be worth a try. I was thinking of using a paintbrush on any fiddly bits, then something like a gloss roller for the flat areas so not to get a brush stroke finish. Changing doors is simple enough though, I don't mind spending time on adjusting then etc. But it's all the other bits that would then need replacing, plinths, cornices, end panels, it all adds up doesn't it! 

Doozergirl

My in laws had replacement doors.  God knows how much they paid - the majority of the cost in a kitchen can often be the doors themselves, but I hate it.  You can see the carcass between the gaps in the replacement pieces - it's only a couple of mm and probably exacerbated by having darker doors on white units, but it doesn't look quite right.  

There's some things that look a bit odd where they didn't have a perfect solution for an open shelved corner cabinet, for example.  

If the doors are shaker style or similar, there's really nothing wrong with painting them yourselves.  You usually pay more for hand painted shaker kitchens, after all!  

mi-key

lindos90 said:

Bigphil1474 said:

OP, I'm in a similar position, but I've looked at prices of replacing and/or someone repainting, and the cost is eye watering. My budget is just too tight. We're going down the DIY painting route. It won't look brilliant, but I'm aiming for home 'improvement' rather than perfection. We got some decent quality cupboard primer (can't remember the name), and I'll try rattle can or roller painting for the finish. I've looked at a few youtube video's and in principle it's straight forward. If it ends up a pigs ear, I'll just have to live with it or get someone in.

This could be the fall back position here too. For the cost of a tin of primer and paint it might be worth a try. I was thinking of using a paintbrush on any fiddly bits, then something like a gloss roller for the flat areas so not to get a brush stroke finish. Changing doors is simple enough though, I don't mind spending time on adjusting then etc. But it's all the other bits that would then need replacing, plinths, cornices, end panels, it all adds up doesn't it! 

If you try the rustoleum stuff you don't need to use a roller. I used a brush and did two very thin coats in situ ( spreading the paint as far as it would go ), it tends to settle itself so didnt leave any brush marks, 

lindos90

mi-key said:

lindos90 said:

Bigphil1474 said:

OP, I'm in a similar position, but I've looked at prices of replacing and/or someone repainting, and the cost is eye watering. My budget is just too tight. We're going down the DIY painting route. It won't look brilliant, but I'm aiming for home 'improvement' rather than perfection. We got some decent quality cupboard primer (can't remember the name), and I'll try rattle can or roller painting for the finish. I've looked at a few youtube video's and in principle it's straight forward. If it ends up a pigs ear, I'll just have to live with it or get someone in.

This could be the fall back position here too. For the cost of a tin of primer and paint it might be worth a try. I was thinking of using a paintbrush on any fiddly bits, then something like a gloss roller for the flat areas so not to get a brush stroke finish. Changing doors is simple enough though, I don't mind spending time on adjusting then etc. But it's all the other bits that would then need replacing, plinths, cornices, end panels, it all adds up doesn't it! 

If you try the rustoleum stuff you don't need to use a roller. I used a brush and did two very thin coats in situ ( spreading the paint as far as it would go ), it tends to settle itself so didnt leave any brush marks, 

That's interesting thankyou! I've just seen so many pieces of 'upcycled' furniture that look really poor where you can see brush strokes in the thick paint. Good to know this type of stuff levels well.

mi-key

lindos90 said:

mi-key said:

lindos90 said:

Bigphil1474 said:

OP, I'm in a similar position, but I've looked at prices of replacing and/or someone repainting, and the cost is eye watering. My budget is just too tight. We're going down the DIY painting route. It won't look brilliant, but I'm aiming for home 'improvement' rather than perfection. We got some decent quality cupboard primer (can't remember the name), and I'll try rattle can or roller painting for the finish. I've looked at a few youtube video's and in principle it's straight forward. If it ends up a pigs ear, I'll just have to live with it or get someone in.

This could be the fall back position here too. For the cost of a tin of primer and paint it might be worth a try. I was thinking of using a paintbrush on any fiddly bits, then something like a gloss roller for the flat areas so not to get a brush stroke finish. Changing doors is simple enough though, I don't mind spending time on adjusting then etc. But it's all the other bits that would then need replacing, plinths, cornices, end panels, it all adds up doesn't it! 

If you try the rustoleum stuff you don't need to use a roller. I used a brush and did two very thin coats in situ ( spreading the paint as far as it would go ), it tends to settle itself so didnt leave any brush marks, 

That's interesting thankyou! I've just seen so many pieces of 'upcycled' furniture that look really poor where you can see brush strokes in the thick paint. Good to know this type of stuff levels well.

People generally tend to try and paint it all in one thick coat, which never gives a good finish. It is much better to use multiple thin coats to build up the colour and it keeps it nice and smooth