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Yeah our plan is to remove some of the wall hung cabinets and plaster/repaint/tile where these would have been.
I just really don't like the cabinet doors/handles. I know it will seem silly but I spend so much time in the kitchen that I know it will grate on me.
I think as we're removing some of the cabinets, I'll test out how good a finish I can achieve by painting them, if it's reasonable I'll give that a go - seems like the most sensible solution. Maybe it should have been a DIY Q.
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Those little sponge rollers seem to give an easier finish.
Also depending on what sort of handles you're after I found AliExpress pretty good for making our little one's kitchen. There were also small round brass ones we didn't use that were very well finished.
What colour is it out of interest, because in darker finishes with small handles it looks alright?
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We replaced all the doors on the kitchen in my wife’s old place. Painted the offensive wood-look melamine end panels with specialist paint, think it was Zinsser. Worked well, and not too bad to do. I wouldn’t paint doors, but the odd edge or end panel is fine.
As people have said, there are loads of companies out there doing made to measure replacement doors. Very easy to fit.
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@Tenderloin I was pretty happy with the finish I achieved using a Zinsser primer and Farrow and Ball "cabinet paint" watered down ever-so slightly and layered up carefully (I'm not really sure if its for cabinets but F&B sales person said it would work).
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I only changed the handles on all my offensive 80s cabinets and it made a huge difference .
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It looks fairly inoffensive to me so andosandos point seems sensible.
Have you thought about changing the door handles and repainting or retiling the rest of the kitchen?
Some friends had a place with a decent kitchen that wasn't to their taste. They painted, retiled and replaced the floor and it looked totally different despite still having cabinets and counters they never would have chosen.
Admittedly it wasn't big so changing the floor was cheap.