You’ve found the house, scraped together the deposit, covered the fees and the moving costs — and now you’re standing in a kitchen that’s sound but dated, and there’s nothing left in the budget to replace it. It’s one of the most common situations new homeowners face, and the good news is you don’t have to live with it or spend thousands fixing it.
Spraying the cabinets you’ve inherited gives you a fresh, modern kitchen in as little as a single day, for a fraction of the cost of a new one — so the room finally feels like yours, without blowing a budget you haven’t got.
Contents
How Much you’ll Actually Spend
Make it Feel like Yours, Not the Previous Owner’s
You Don’t have to do it the Day you Move In
The Finish and How Long it Lasts
The New-Buyer’s Dilemma
Most kitchens that come with a house are perfectly functional — the layout works, the units are solid — they just look like someone else’s taste from another decade. Replacing the whole thing to fix what is really a colour and finish problem is a lot of money for a kitchen that doesn’t actually need replacing.
That’s exactly where spraying fits. You keep the units, worktops and layout that already work, and change only the look — the bit that’s bothering you.
How Much you’ll Actually Spend
Kitchen spraying starts from around £975 plus VAT, compared with thousands for a replacement kitchen. For a new buyer, that’s the difference between a project you can do now and one you’d have to put off for years. It’s a small, one-off cost that transforms the room you’ll use most, while you keep your remaining budget for the things a new home always throws up.
We give a free, no-obligation estimate from a few photos and your postcode — so you can see the number before you commit to anything.
Make it Feel like Yours, Not the Previous Owner’s
This is the real win. Moving in is about making a place feel like home, and the kitchen sets the tone. We can spray your cabinets any colour — we have already matched the RAL and Farrow & Ball colours and can also match any brand of your choosing — in your choice of sheen, including two-tone looks. Whether you want a soft modern grey, a warm cream, a bold navy or a clean white, we can take the previous owner’s choice and make it unmistakably yours.
You Don’t have to do it the Day you Move In
Spraying is done on site in 1-3 days, with everything masked off and tidied up before we leave — so it slots in whenever suits you. Plenty of customers get it done before they move furniture in, when the house is empty and access is easiest; others settle first and book it once they’ve lived with the space and decided on a colour. Either works.
The Finish and How Long it Lasts
A professionally sprayed kitchen has a smooth, factory-style finish with no brush or roller marks, and it’s built to last day-to-day use — backed by our 10 year guarantee against fading, cracking, flaking and peeling. Proper preparation is what makes it last, which is why a professional spray outperforms a DIY brush job that starts peeling within a season.
Today’s Featured Kitchen
The images included in today’s post are of a kitchen that one of our teams sprayed last week (early June 2026). We had sprayed this customer’s kitchen in 2022 and she got back in touch, saying that she had been really pleased with the last transformation and as she had moved to a new house, she would like us to spray the kitchen in her new home.
As can be seen from the photos within this post, the kitchen in the house that she had bought was a dated dark wood. Our customer chose to have her kitchen sprayed in a colour match to Elephant’s Breath by Farrow and Ball. This warm mid grey is one of our most regularly sprayed colours and it is actually the same colour that we sprayed this customer’s first kitchen in! The finish sprayed was 30% satin and the option chosen was option 2, which includes the fronts and backs of the cupboards and drawers.
Frequently Asked Questions
- What’s the cheapest way to update a kitchen in a house I’ve just bought? If the units are sound, spraying the cabinets is usually the cheapest way to modernise the kitchen — you change the colour and finish without replacing anything, for a fraction of the cost of a new kitchen.
- Can you spray the kitchen before I move in? Yes — spraying an empty kitchen is often easier for access, and many are done in a single day.
- Will it look like paint? No — it’s a smooth, even, factory-style finish with no brush or roller marks.
- How long does it last? It’s hard-wearing and backed by our 10 year guarantee against fading, cracking, flaking and peeling.
- What areas do you cover? We’re based in Stockport however as well as spraying kitchens across Manchester, Cheshire and the North of England, we also cover the remainder of England as well as Scotland and Wales.
Just moved in and stuck with a kitchen that isn’t you? Send us a few photos for a free, no-obligation estimate and we’ll show you how to make it yours — for a fraction of the cost of replacing it. You can click the link above to get in contact or alternatively, you can call 0800 970 8825, text or WhatsApp 07523 171 845 or email hello@wesprayupvc.co.uk.