Are hand painted kitchens worth the money?
If you want a high-class kitchen with an individual character, hand painted kitchens certainly offer that.
On the other hand, are they really worth what you’d have to pay to buy one, though?
Reasons not to buy hand painted kitchens
The biggest argument against buying hand painted kitchens is, quite simply, that they’re eye-wateringly expensive from the big names. These include places like Tom Howley, Harvey Jones, deVol, Clive Christian and Smallbone. If you go to one of these, you’re looking at paying a small fortune for a kitchen.
The other argument against buying a hand painted kitchen is the durability of the paint finish. Hand painted kitchens are less durable and more likely to chip than factory sprayed kitchens. This is because the paint used on factory sprayed kitchens contains special hardeners. It’s these hardeners that give the paint it’s toughness and makes it more resistant to chipping. The paint used for hand painted kitchens do not contain these hardeners.
Reasons for buying hand painted kitchens
Expensive or not, there’s nothing like hand painted kitchens. They have the charm and quality of something real and handmade, like a wooden floor as against a laminate one. Factory spraying is perfect and uniform, but has no character. With hand painting, you can see the brushstrokes. Like the grain and the knots in a wooden floor, the imperfections themselves bring it to life.
The other advantage is that the units are complete pieces of furniture. In a standard kitchen for example, of an evening when you have the under wall unit lights on, you’ll be able to see light shining through the small gap between the light baffle & the wall units. However, with a hand painted kitchen, you won’t have this problem. This is because every gap is filled before it’s painted (a process called ‘corking’).
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