DIY - Kitchen

Its easy to do yourself. We did it with the pine kitchen that was in our house when we moved in, to tied us over until we rennovated the house completely 3 years later. We took each door off and took the handles / knobs off too, lightly sanded each one, a quick coat of undercoat, then painted them in a nice creamy satin finish paint.

We also painted the cabinets too as the whole kitchen was solid pine (it was a custom made jobby about 20 years previously, so a good solid kitchen that needed freshening up)

We changed the knobs/handles for metallic ones we bought in Ikea quite cheaply and the whole kitchen looked new once we hung the doors again. Took us a few days to do the lot but there were 24 doors to contend with!

You can get special paint to paint unit doors, we've used it to paint part of our kitchen (kept unit colour as lovely cream, got rid of fake wood parts with a creamy yellow paint) we've also put new worktops (black laminate to wood) and tiles (black to blue/green mosaic) and repainted the walls.

We recently tarted up our kitchen - we used B&Q cabinet doors on the existing carcases. It cost us the grand total of £167 for new doors for 9 cupboards and 7 drawer fronts. We used these ones:-

http://www.diy.com/diy/jsp/bq/nav/nav.jsp?action=detail&fh_secondid=9292596&fh_reftheme=promo_83953276%2cseeall%2c%2f%2fcatalog01%2fen_GB%2fcategories%3c%7b10057%7d%2fcategories%3c%7b10058%7d%2f_wide_price_range%3d0-50%2fcategories%3c%7b9001026%7d%2fspecificationsProductType%3ddoor___drawer_fronts&fh_view_size=6&fh_start_index=24&fh_location=%2f%2fcatalog01%2fen_GB%2fcategories%3c%7b10057%7d%2fcategories%3c%7b10058%7d%2f_wide_price_range%3d0-50%2fcategories%3c%7b9001026%7d%2fspecificationsProductType%3ddoor___drawer_fronts%2fspecificationsSpecificProductType%3ddoor___drawer_front_packs&fh_eds=%c3%9f&fh_refview=lister&ts=1217243286019&isSearch=false

Ooo - big link!

Thanks

I will probablg go to B&Q at 5pm and see what they say.

So do I need to sand them first? I have read a few things saying that you can just paint them with primer and then gloss?

Will probably just get plain metal door handles as the current ones are a bit fussy

Are they wooden doors or melamine?

If wooden then sand them, undercoat and top coat.

If melamine then I think they need a light sanding for the primer to stick, then top coat. Youll need specific melamine primer / paint.

They are wooden, so I will need sandpaper right? Is there anything that won't kill my fingers after 15 doors?!

Aye sandpaper...... if you dont wanna kill your fingers get an orbital sander lol.

If theyre healily varnished then youll need to have them a hard sandpapering, but if theyre kind of coated and its not varnish then a light sanding should do the trick, just to rough it up a bit for the paint to stick IYSWIM?